The Chaperone (2011 film)


The Chaperone is a 2011 American crime comedy film directed by Stephen Herek, and also produced by WWE Studios. It stars Paul Levesque, Yeardley Smith, Ariel Winter, Kevin Corrigan, José Zúñiga, Kevin Rankin, Enrico Colantoni, and Israel Broussard. It is about getaway driver Ray Bradstone who bails out of a robbery and decides to focus on being a better dad by chaperoning his teenage daughter's school field trip.
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Plot

Ray Bradstone, a talented getaway driver, is determined to go straight, be a better parent to his daughter Sally, and make amends with his ex-wife, Lynne. As Ray struggles to find honest work, he agrees to take one last job with his old bank-robbing crew, led by Phillip Larue.
Ray changes his mind at the last second, choosing to chaperone a field trip with Sally's class and leaving the thieves without an escape. The robbery is a disaster and now Ray must deal with an enraged Larue and his thugs while driving a school bus full of kids.

Cast

Development

WWE announced that filming in New Orleans started in June 2010.

Reception

The Chaperone met with negative reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 29% based on 17 reviews, with an average rating of 3.7/10. Metacritic gives a score of 33/100 based on reviews from 11 critics.
Eric Kohn of Indiewire graded the film a C−, saying that it had flat direction and a mediocre script and said "As a vehicle for WWE champ Paul "Triple H" Levesque, it's haplessly stuck on cruise control." Nick Schager of Slant Magazine gave it half-a-star out of four, criticizing the script, direction and characters saying that "this hulk-with-a-heart-of-gold fable embraces banalities with a vigor matched only by its lack of imagination."