Steve Carr To Helm Convergence Entertainment Group Comedy ‘Breaking Up With Mom And Dad’

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Carr is set to direct Breaking Up With Mom and Dad, a script by Zach Justice and K. Asher Levin that has been set for a production start by Convergence Entertainment Group.

The logline: when new couple Liam and Jamie discover their parents—who both work at their school—are dating, they freak out at the idea of becoming an “incest family” and launch a plan to break them up before their social lives are ruined. What could go wrong?

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Carr is best known for helming the comedy hits Paul Blart: Mall Cop with Kevin James and Daddy Day Care with Eddie Murphy.

Producing will be Jason Newman for Untitled Entertainment and Justice. Convergence Entertainment will finance, and the film will shoot in Ohio later this year.

Carr is repped by IAG.

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