Veteran television actor Ed O’Neill, Peacemaker’s Danielle Brooks, and John Higgins, part of the Please Don’t Destroy comedy group, have joined Cameron Diaz in Bad Day , an action comedy Jake Szymanski is directing for Netflix.

Written by Laura Solon, the original script centers on a single mom fighting to keep one little promise to her daughter on the absolute worst day of her life.

The project has been described as a comedic version of Falling Down , the 1993 drama directed by Joel Schumacher that starred Michael Douglas as a man who hits his breaking point while trying to get to his daughter’s birthday.

O’Neill is playing the mom’s curmudgeonly father-in-law who seems intent on making everyone’s life miserable.

Brooks is a grumpy NYPD detective trying to track down the mom,

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