WHO’S IN IT?
Ed Helms (The Hangover), Taraji P. Henson (What Women Want), Terrence Little Gardenhigh (film debut), Betty Gilpin (The Hunt), King Bach (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before), RonReaco Lee (Guess Who), David Alan Grier (Jumanji)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
Michael Dowse (Stuber), director; Shane McCarthy (film debut), writer; Dan Clarke (Postal), Mike Falbo (The Clapper), Jordon Foss (Eloise), Ed Helms (Corporate Animals) and Sanford Nelson (Eloise), producers; Joseph Trapanese (Earth to Echo), composer; Brian Burgoyne (The Big Sick), cinematographer; Daniel Gabbe (Good Boys), editor
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
Twelve-year-old Kareem Manning (Gardenhigh) highly disapproves of his mother’s (Henson) new boyfriend, police officer James Coffee (Helms). He hires a criminal in an attempt to scare him away, but when the prank backfires Coffee is forced to team with Kareem to clear his name and take down Detroit’s most ruthless drug kingpin…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
Although it sounds like one of those films that was greenlit because of that title alone, this aims to get some decent laughs and thrills in there, thanks to the unlikely pairing of Ed Helms with unknown young actor Terrence Little Gardenhigh.
