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The Pacifier
Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe is handed a new assignment: Protect the five Plummer kids from enemies of their recently deceased father -- a government scientist whose top-secret experiment remains hidden in the kids' house.
2005 · Directed by Adam Shankman · 95 min · Comedy · Family · Action · Screenplay in the scene database · 16 frames
Tagline
Welcome to the infantry.
Plot
U.S. Navy SEAL lieutenant Shane Wolfe is assigned to rescue Howard Plummer, a man working on a top-secret government project, from a group of Serbian rebels. Shane and his team successfully get Howard off an enemy boat. Boarding the helicopter to escape, the team gets attacked again and Howard gets killed. Shane spends two months in the hospital recovering from gunshot wounds to the chest during the attack.
At the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, Shane's commanding officer, Captain Bill Fawcett, explains that he has been assigned to escort Howard's widow, Julie, to Zürich, to retrieve the contents of Howard's safety deposit box. Meanwhile, Shane has been assigned to stay at the Plummer residence in Bethesda, to search for the secret project called GHOST and mind the family's five children: Zoe, Seth, Lulu, Peter, and baby Tyler. They prove to be difficult to handle, even with the help of her nanny Helga, who quits when one of Zoe and Seth's pranks intended for Shane goes wrong, with Helga suffering the prank instead. Shane eventually begins to discover the children's problems and resolve them, gaining their trust after saving them from a pair of intruders looking for the GHOST program.
Later, the school's vice principal, Duane Murney, informs Shane that Seth has cut and bleached his hair, has a Nazi armband in his locker, and has skipped a month of wrestling practices. At home, Seth tells Shane he only joined the wrestling team because of his father. After Seth sneaks out of the house, Shane follows and learns that Seth has secretly joined an amateur production of The Sound of Music, playing the role of Rolf. The director quits, and Shane takes charge of the show, takes care of the house, gives Zoe driving lessons, and teaches Lulu and her fellow Firefly Scouts martial arts to defend themselves against rival scouts.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon
- Cinematography: Peter James
- Edited by: Christopher Greenbury
- Music: John Debney
- Production design: Linda DeScenna
- Produced by: Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Jonathan Glickman
Cast
- Vin Diesel as Shane Wolfe
- Lauren Graham as Claire Fletcher
- Faith Ford as Julie Plummer
- Brittany Snow as Zoe
- Max Thieriot as Seth
- Chris Potter as Bill Fawcett
- Carol Kane as Helga
- Brad Garrett as Vice Principal Murney
- Morgan York as Lulu
- Keegan Hoover as Peter
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Walt Disney Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment
- Budget: $56,000,000
- Box office: $198,636,868
- Themes: mission, bodybuilder, body guard, scientist, family, u.s. soldier, death of husband, us military, action hero, male nanny
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