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Directed by | Sean Anders |
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Based on | Characters by Brian Burns |
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Cinematography | Julio Macat |
Edited by | Brad Wilhite |
Music by | Michael Andrews |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 99 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $69 million[2][3][4] |
Box office | $180.6 million[2] |
Daddy's Home 2 (titled on screen as Daddy's Home Two) is a 2017 American Christmas buddy comedy film directed by Sean Anders and written by Anders and John Morris. A sequel to Daddy's Home (2015), it stars Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Linda Cardellini, John Cena, with John Lithgow and Mel Gibson. The plot follows now-reformed fathers Brad and Dusty (Ferrell and Wahlberg), now co-parenting Dusty's kids, who have to deal with their own fathers (Lithgow and Gibson) visiting for the holidays.
Unlike its predecessor, Red Granite Pictures was not involved in the film's production. Principal photography on the film began in Massachusetts in March 2017 and it was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on November 10, 2017. Although the film received generally negative reviews from critics, it grossed over $180 million worldwide against a production budget of $69–70 million.