THE GAME PLAN

After producing The Rookie, Miracle and Invincible, Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray are giving the modern Disney sports film a twist with this fictional, family-friendly comedy. Former pro wrestler The Rock (a.k.a. Dwayne Johnson) plays Joe Kingman, a superstar NFL quarterback whose "serial bachelorship" comes to a halt with the discovery that he has a 7-year-old daughter (Madison Pettis, "Cory in the House"), the product of a final fling in a marriage that has since ended. As you'd expect, parties, practices, and dates now must be juggled with fatherly duties as ballet, bedtime stories, and dolls enter the picture. Have no doubt that amidst the Pacifier-type laughs, there's a lesson to be learned about there being more to life than fame and fortune. The film co-stars Morris Chestnut (The Ernest Green Story), Paige Turco, Roselyn Sanchez, Gordon Clapp, and Kyra Sedgewick as Joe's hard-edged agent Stella Peck. Andy Fickman (She's The Man) directs from a screenplay attributed to Audrey Wells (George of the Jungle, The Kid), Kathryn Price ("The Mole"), and newcomer Nichole Millard.