<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $28 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $45.2 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Spy Next Door is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Brian Levant, written by Jonathan Bernstein, James Greer and Gregory Poirier, produced by Robert Simonds with music by David Newman and starring Jackie Chan, Amber Valletta, Magnús Scheving, Madeline Carroll, Will Shadley, Alina Foley, Billy Ray Cyrus and George Lopez . Filming started in late October 2008 in Rio Rancho, New Mexico and was finished in late December 2008 . The film was released on January 15, 2010 in the United States by Lionsgate . The film was released on DVD, and Blu - ray on May 18, 2010 . The film tributes Chan's films by showing clips, references and even referencing Chan's real life childhood . The film received negative reviews from critics and it earned $45.2 million on a $28 million budget . </P> <P> Bob Ho is a CIA undercover agent who decides to retire after putting Russian terrorist Anton Poldark behind bars and marry his longtime girlfriend Gillian, who lives next door and has three children from previous relationships, Farren (a step - daughter), Ian and Nora . None of them know about his job . One day, Gillian leaves to visit her father in a hospital in Denver, Colorado and leaves Bob to take care of her children, who all despise him and plot to get rid of him . Using some technology from the CIA, Bob is able to get control of them . His partner, Colton James, informs him that Poldark has escaped prison and they suspect there is a mole in the CIA . Colton sends a file to Bob's computer for a top - secret formula for an oil - eating bacteria Poldark is working on . While snooping around Bob's house, Ian downloads the file, which he mistakes for music, onto his iPod . Poldark discovers the download and sends some of his people to Bob's house, but Bob overpowers them . </P>

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