Miss Harridan (Anjelica Huston) is the main antagonist of the 2003 movie "Daddy Day Care".
Miss Harridan is headmistress of Chapman Academy. She is very strict and she makes her teachers teach German and middle school ELA to three year olds. Whenever she has a rival which is more child friendly and cheaper she tries and shuts it down using her devious ways. She makes a complaint about the day care. The director asks the Day Care people to do a bunch of sheets in 24 hours and if they're not done they're not legally allowed to run a Day Care. She tries to shut down Daddy Day Care four times. The first three times they pass the test which frustrates Miss Harridan even more. Miss Harridan and her assistant, Jenny ruin the festival by unplugging a bouncy castle, putting cockroaches in the food, switching face paint with glue, releasing animals from the petting zoo and turning on the park sprinklers. Later when Miss Harridan comes with a proposition to the Hinton home she finds out that Charlie got a job offer. Taking advantage of the situation she convinces Charlie to get the job along with Phil and Marvin saying that all the kids could go to Chapman for a lower price. Charlie and Phil agree but later on after they earn enough money from work they shut down Chapman for good. Six months later, Miss Harridan gets demoted to a crossing guard at a busy intersection.
She accepts a flower off a kid which then shortly attracts bees while she'scontrolling traffic. She ends up being attacked by more and more, defending herself with the stop sign which then causes cars crashing into each other and almost taking her out as the credits then roll.
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- Anjelica Huston appeared as the Grand High Witch in the 1990 fantasy film "The Witches".
- Anjelica Huston appeared as the evil step-mother Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent in the 1998 film "Ever After".
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