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 Triple H, Yeardley Smith, Ariel Winter, Kevin Corrigan, José Zúñiga, Kevin Rankin, Enrico Colantoni, and Israel Broussard.

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 a worthy means of escape. The robbery is a disaster and now Ray must deal with an enraged Larue while driving a school bus full of kids.

Cast

 * Paul "Triple H" Levesque as Raymond "Ray" Bradstone
 * Ariel Winter as Sally Bradstone
 * Kevin Corrigan as Phillip "The Cat" Larue
 * Jose Zuniga as Officer Carlos Flynt
 * Annabeth Gish as Lynne Bradstone
 * Yeardley Smith as Miss Miller
 * Kevin Rankin as Meyer "Goldy" Stenz
 * Enrico Colantoni as Dr. Marvin Etman
 * Ashley Taylor as Meredith
 * Israel Broussard as Josh
 * Darren O'Hare as Augie
 * Lucy Webb as Dr. Marjorie
 * Jake Walker as Ted
 * Cullen Foster Chaffin as Simon
 * Taylor Faye Ruffin as Brenda
 * Camille Bourgeois as Bill
 * Nick Gomez as Nick The Bus Driver
 * J. D. Evermore as Theodore Del Muniz
 * Alec Rayme as Kevin
 * Billy Slaughter as Father

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."