''Who's Your Caddy?'' is a 2007 American

comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...

directed by

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and starring

Big Boi Antwan André Patton (born February 1, 1975), known professionally as Big Boi, is an American rapper and record producer. Born in Savannah, Georgia, and raised in Atlanta, he was one half of the Southern hip-hop duo Outkast along with rapper ...

Lil Wayne Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. (born September27, 1982), known professionally as Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. He is often regarded as one of the most influential hip hop artists of his generation, as well as one of the greatest rappers of all ...

, Andy Milonakis, Faizon Love,

Terry Crews Terry Alan Crews (born July 30, 1968) is an American actor, television host, and former professional American football, football player. He played Julius Rock in the UPN/The CW Television Network, CW sitcom ''Everybody Hates Chris'', which air ...

, Tony Cox, Jeffrey Jones and

Jesper Parnevik Jesper Bo Parnevik (; born 7 March 1965) is a Swedish professional golfer. He spent 38 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking in 2000 and 2001. Early years and amateur career Parnevik was born in Botkyrka, Stockholm County, a ...

. It is the first film produced by Robert L. Johnson's Our Stories Films studio. The film was released on July 27, 2007, in the United States to universally negative reviews and was a

box office failure A box-office bomb is a film that is unprofitable or considered highly unsuccessful during its theatrical run. Although any film for which the combined production budget, marketing, and distribution costs exceed the revenue after release has te ...

Plot

When hip-hop star Christopher "C-Note" Hawkins (

) is denied membership into an exclusive Carolina Pines

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, he comes up with a cunning plan that will oblige the country club to allow his acceptance. C-Note purchases property that contains land from the 17th hole and bribes the country club for a membership in exchange for his land. The rest of the movie's plot revolves around the club members and their efforts to get C-Note kicked out, while he disrupts the club's atmosphere.

Cast

as Christopher "C-Note" Hawkins (credited as "Antwan André Patton") ** Chase A.A. Jackson as Young Christopher "C-Note" Hawkins * David Kelly as Bobby Hawkins *

James Avery James La Rue Avery (November 27, 1945 – December 31, 2013) was an American actor. He was best known for his roles as Philip Banks in ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', Judge Michael Conover on ''L.A. Law'', Steve Yeager in '' The Brady Bunch M ...

as Mack "Caddy Mack" * Bruce Bruce as Eddie "Golf-Ball Eddie" * Tony Cox as Willie "Big Willie" Johnson *

as "Tank" * Faizon Love as "Big Large" *

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as "Dread" * Jeffrey Jones as Cummings *

as himself * Andy Milonakis as Wilson Cummings * Sherri Shepherd as "Lady G" *

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as Shannon Williams * Jenifer Lewis as Mrs. Hawkins *

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as Reverend J.J. Jackson *

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as Mick * Chase Tatum as "Kidd Clean" *

Susan Ward Susan Michelle Ward"Deaths: Emily Sue Ward"
''The Monroe News-Star''. ...

as Mrs. Cummings * Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as Joseph Williams * Robert Curtis Brown as "Frosty" * Todd Sherry as Realtor * Matthew Reichel as himself *

as himself

Release

The film was produced by Rifkin-Eberts and released by

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in association with

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’s Robert L. Johnson under its new division known as Our Stories Films. It was released in North America in distribution by

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on July 27, 2007. It was then released on

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by Genius Products on November 27, 2007.

Reception

Critical reception

On the review aggregator website

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, 6% of 33 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 2.7/10. The website's consensus reads: "A juvenile, uninspired retread of ''Caddyshack'', ''Who's Your Caddy?'' is unoriginal, unfunny, and just plain forgettable."

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, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 18 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike". The film was nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for Worst Remake or Rip-off, but lost to '' I Know Who Killed Me''. Former U.S. president

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"loves" the film. In August 2016,

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and

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made guest appearances on ''

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'' where they discussed having dinner with Clinton in

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while filming ''

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''. The two guests stated that during their dinner with the former president, Clinton stated that he loves comedies and his favorite comedy is ''Who's Your Caddy?''

Box office

The movie grossed US$2.76 million in its first week at the box office, debuting in the number 10 spot and performed poorly at the box office earning only $5,713,425 in total.

References

External links

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