Carpool

(1996) In Arthur Hiller's good natured chase-comedy Daniel Miller (David Paymer) plays an ad-man obsessed with time-keeping. So when his wife is taken ill and he has to run the morning carpool, it's with efficiency - the kids are picked up and, on the way to the school, there's even time to stop to buy donuts. But as he's waiting to pay, there's a hold-up and before he knows it, he and his five charges are being held hostage by Franklin Laszlo (Tom Arnold), an innocent customer identified as the robber. With the cops in hot pursuit, Miller, Laszlo and the kids set off for freedom and the chance to prove their innocence. M,W,R,S,, Crazy comedy starring Tom Arnold and Rhea Perlman. Having reluctantly taken over carpool duties from his ill wife, impatient advertising exec Daniel stops off to buy pastries for his passengers in a bid to keep them quiet. However, after a bungled raid on the patisserie, he and the kids find themselves hostages being chased by both the cops and the robbers!, Franklin Lazlo (Tom Arnold) is desperate. His carnival is on the skids and he hasn't got the money to make his next payroll. He tries robbery, with little result except to have the police, some professional robbers, and a meter-maid (Rhea Perlman) chasing him. On the way, he takes uptight and harried children's carpool father Daniel Miller (David Paymer) and a van full of children hostage. Franklin and the children get up to some wild hijinks all over town, and gradually the starchy Daniel begins to loosen up.