Synopsis
A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for the kids, things go even more awry when he finds himself a victim of a robbery. However, the situation only gets worse as a desperate man who had been contemplating a bank robbery robs the robbers and takes the man and the kids hostage in their van as his truck is blocked by an armored car. The thing then proceeds into a comedic chase movie. The father finds his kids don't really respect him and they react better to the robber. The end result is everyone gets a lifestyle change, including the original store owner.
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Cast
- Tom ArnoldFranklin Laszlo
- David PaymerDaniel Miller
- Rhea PerlmanMartha
- Rod SteigerMr. Hammerman
- Kim CoatesDetective Erdman
- Rachael Leigh CookKayla
- Mikey KovarAndrew Miller
- Jordan WarkolTravis
- Micah GardenerBucky Miller
- Colleen RennisonChelsea
Recommendations
- 40
Empire
The whole madcap production is at best faintly amusing, at worst, painfully protracted - 38
ReelViews
Things might have been okay if this film had gone someplace, anyplace, but it stalls early, then coasts through an hour of minimally-amusing material before screeching to an amazingly improbable stop. - 33
Entertainment Weekly
Carpool is affably stupid Saturday-matinee fare -- good for opiating the kids for a few hours -- but let's just say it's no Big Bully. - 30
Variety
Arthur Hiller's pacing is crude, but that seems to be the point. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a shame Arnold is stuck on the loudmouth clod schtick, because there are moments he's downright pleasant on screen. But in Carpool, these moments are kept to a minimum. - 25
TV Guide Magazine
Indifferently directed and almost aggressively tedious, we'd call it cliched if they'd even bothered getting the cliches right. - 20
Austin Chronicle
Nothing about the movie makes much sense. - 20
Washington Post
Arthur Hiller, who last directed the sour "The Babe" -- not the one about that sweet pig -- finds even less to work with in TV veteran Don Rhymer's stupid screenplay.
