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Spoiler Points for The Game Plan (2007) [PG] 110 minutes
WIP™ Scale: $13.00
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Spoiler Plot Points:
Monique (Roselyn Sanchez) Vaqsquez, Peyton's ballet instructor casts Joe (The Rock) Kingman as an enchanted tree in Peyton's ballet recital show. He's on board until he sees the leotard he must wear. Eventually, he gets over it, that is, until he sees that his entire team has showed up to see him perform. He and Peyton get over their nerves and put on a show that, by the end, has every football player in the house in tears. The ballet is so moving, and seeing Joe dance with his daughter could melt even the iciest of hearts.
Joe, Peyton (Madison Pettis), and Monique are all bonding nicely. And so, Joe and Peyton use Spike to deliver a luncheon invitation to Monique during her class. She joins them, but doesn't realize that there are nuts in the salad that Peyton eats. She goes into anaphylactic shock. Joe, worried that he won't make it to the hospital in the city traffic, does what any quarterback dad would do, he picks her up and runs. Dodging cars and cabs and city street obstacles, he gets her to the emergency room just in the nick of time. She's going to be ok. But a cover story about the incident on the newspaper catches the eye of Karen Kelly (Paige Turco) who has been, unbeknownst to Joe, Peyton's legal guardian since her mother was killed in a car accident six months before. She shows up at the hospital fuming about this incident. She also believes that, somehow, Joe found Peyton and took her out of the summer ballet program she was supposed to be in. She does not realize, nor had Joe until this moment, that Peyton had set this whole thing up. Karen had thought Peyton was spending the summer in a ballet program while she was in Africa working on a water treatment system. Joe had thought his ex-wife had dropped Peyton off to teach him a lesson in responsibility. Nothing could be further from the truth. Karen is so angry and hurt she's beside herself.
The Ending:
Peyton really wanted to stay with her father, but she over hears a conversation between Joe's agent, Stella Peck (Kyra Sedgwick), and a sponsor in which she states that Joe will never get the deals he needs if he's too distracted by a daughter to win the championship game. So, she cries and makes a big fuss about how she wants to go with her Aunt Karen, and she hides her true feelings. Joe is very hurt by the whole thing, but he doesn't realize how much until the championship game comes and he gets hurt. Even though his motto is "never say no", he says no, and asks that the backup Q.B. be put into the game. Still in the locker room licking his wounds, his team down by a touch down, Joe looks forlorn until, as if by some miracle, Peyton shows up escorted by Karen. Peyton coaxes her dad back into the game; and, now properly inspired, Joe takes her down the tunnel and onto the field. He asks permission from the coach to re-enter the game now a better guy and realizing that it would be wrong for him to assume the coach would want him back. The coach waves him on. The clock gives Boston little time, but Joe works his magic down the field. When there's but a few seconds left, just time for one more play, Joe does something the old Joe never would have done, he passed the ball to his tight end rather than trying to heroically carry the ball in himself. The catch is made and Boston and Kingman have their championship trophy at last.
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