SYNOPSIS:

It is a rivalry that started back in high school and has never let up. When Max bought a modest suburban home in a new development with his wife Kate, their teenage daughter Penny, and their ten-year-old son Theo, Ethan McCormick bought the land across the street and built a mansion. When Max installed a pool in the backyard, Ethan put in a pool, a Jacuzzi spa, and bought a boat. The rest of the Huffman family is sick of their neighbors, too. Kate, a teacher at the high school, is always overshadowed by Avery McCormick, who started (and funded) the school’s booster club, runs the PTA, and is always chosen to plan the homecoming dance. Penny is consistently tormented by the romantic advances of the oldest McCormick boy Rory and Theo is picked on and harassed by the youngest daughter Charlotte. Enough is enough. Max vows to win the trophy this year - at all costs. He puts his family on a strict training regiment of running, ping-pong, volleyball, arcade games, air-hockey, horseshoes, and swimming to turn them into the perfect team, but his obsession strains the family ties and by the time the picnic rolls around, it’s no fun anymore. Between events, Penny and Theo encounter Rory and Charlotte McCormick only to realize that they have mutual feelings about their parents. So the kids decide give the adults an ultimatum: The Huffman’s must publically apologize to the MCormick’s and vice versa or the kids will go on strike and they will have to finish the competition without them. Ethan and Max, neither willing to back down, continue to compete. Knowing they need to teach their parents a lesson, the kids begin to sabotage each event to insure that their parents lose. In the end, it forces an unlikely friendship between Ethan and Max, Kate and Avery learn to accept each other, Penny and Rory fall in love, Charlotte and Theo – the masterminds behind fixing their families - become best friends.

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