Opposite Day (film)

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Opposite Day
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Directed byR. Michael Givens
Written by Max Botkin
Produced byJamee Natella
Steven Paul
Starring Billy Unger
Ariel Winter
Dylan Cash
Pauly Shore
Bradley Steven Perry
George Wendt
Renée Taylor
French Stewart
CinematographyR. Michael Givens
Edited byJonathan Cates
Music by Misha Segal
Production
company
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
TVA Filmsp
Release date
  • October 2009 (2009-10)(United States)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,000,000 (estimated)

Opposite Day is an American comedy film starring Billy Unger, Ariel Winter, Pauly Shore, and French Stewart, written by Max Botkin. [1] It was released in October 2009.

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Plot

When young Samuel Benson (Billy Unger) gets embarrassed that parents are making rules, he starts to wish that kids ruled the world. Sammy is told by his grandmother (Renée Taylor) before sleep that he can wish to a wishing star, he wishes one wish: "I wish that kids rule the world." But when Sammy and his sister find a surprising secret, the whole world has changed. All adults act like young children, and children become the important people of the world. Businesses, restaurants, gardens, stations and all other jobs are run by kids. So now it is up to Samuel and his sister Carla to figure out how to change the world back. Toddlers are acting like old people. Then Jack Benson (Dick Van Patten), Sammy's grandfather, accidentally runs into a stop sign, he sees a little kid in an officer costume and he gets confused. So Sammy's and Carla's grandparents get arrested and Sammy understands not to make that wish again. So they find their parents acting like children. The next day, Carla's best friend Sue calls her at her house where Carla did not know she had a presentation which almost got her mother fired. She performs very well on the presentation. While Sammy sends the children to school, he went to the laboratory where Chaz has an evil plan to mystify the whole world where Carla and Sammy work together to stop him and they convince him not to do that and they change the world back to normal. Sammy and Carla go on a family vacation where their grandparents are still arrested.

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Release

Opposite Day was released in November 2009, and was directed by R. Michael Givens and written by Max Botkin. Its estimated budget is $1USD million. [3]

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