Daddy's Little Girls (2007)

A mechanic falls in love with his attorney.

Director:

Tyler Perry

Writer:

Tyler Perry

Stars:

Gabrielle Union, Idris Elba, Tracee Ellis Ross

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Gabrielle Union	...	Julia
Idris Elba	...	Monty
Louis Gossett Jr.	...	Willie
Tasha Smith	...	Jennifer
Tracee Ellis Ross	...	Cynthia
Malinda Williams	...	Maya
Terri J. Vaughn	...	Brenda
Gary Anthony Sturgis	...	Joseph (as Gary Sturgis)
Cassi Davis	...	Rita
Sierra Aylina McClain	...	Sierra (as Sierra McClain)
China Anne McClain	...	China (as China McClain)
Lauryn Alisa McClain	...	Lauryn (as Lauryn McClain)
Juanita Jennings	...	Katheryn
Maria Howell	...	Christopher's wife
Rochelle Dewberry	...	Miss Rochelle

Storyline

A mechanic (Idris Elba) enlists the help of a successful, but lonely, attorney (Gabrielle Union) while trying to win custody of his three daughters from his treacherous ex-wife and her larcenous boyfriend. Along the way, the working relationship between the blue collar dad and his uptown attorney grows into something more. This is a simple, touching story of two people trying to overcome their different backgrounds to find love, a down-on-his-luck man struggling to protect his children from abuse and neglect, and a community looking to purge itself from the criminals terrorizing their neighborhood.

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Plot Keywords:

three word title | written by director | african american protagonist | family relationships | working class | 

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Taglines:

give life. teach love.

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for thematic material, drug and sexual content, some violence and language

Details

Official Sites:

Lionsgate Films [United States]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 February 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls

Filming Locations:

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$13,064,075, 18 February 2007

Gross USA:

$31,339,647

Company Credits

Production Co:

Lions Gate Films, The Tyler Perry Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Monty's daughters' first names in the movie are their first names in real-life. They are also real-life sisters.

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Goofs

Monty tells Julia he is 34 years old. His oldest daughter Sierra is 12 years old. He was charged with rape and sentenced to 8 years of prison at the age of 18 so that means he got out of jail at 26 years old. If that's true, how is Sierra 12 years old? Unless, he was granted conjugal visits with Jennifer and she gave birth to Siera while Monty was in jail.

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Connections

References Punk'd (2003)

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Soundtracks

Don't Let Go
Written by R. Kelly
Performed by R. Kelly
Published by Zomba Songs, Inc. / R. Kelly Publishing, Inc., administered by Zomba Songs, Inc. (BMI)
Courtesy of Zomba Recording LLC

User Reviews

The film was decent

"Daddy's Little Girls" is a decent/good movie that could have been a great movie. I say that it is a decent movie because the overall plot was pretty solid and the acting was very good. However, it could have been a great film if the story could have been told with greater detail and the film had been better edited.

Let's put it this way, if T.P. were to have written this film as a school paper, the teacher would have given it a C+. The theme and concept for the paper would have been sound and offered lots of potential – a solid B. However, due to punctuation errors, grammar errors, misspelled words and run-on sentences (For those who took English at Howard U – instant D)….the teacher was being nice to give T.P. a C+.

T.P. has done only one great movie – "Diary Of A Mad Black Woman". The second film was cute. This 3rd film was OK. I will give him the benefit of the doubt for this film, he probably has many other things that he is working on. However, for the next film, he better take the time to write, direct and edit a high quality product.