Are We There Yet Movie Cast

Main Cast

About Are We There Yet?

Are We There Yet? was a box office success despite mixed reviews, grossing over $97 million worldwide. The film showcased Ice Cube's comedic talents in a family-friendly role, quite different from his earlier work in action and drama films.

The movie's success led to a sequel, "Are We Done Yet?" in 2007, and later a television series that ran from 2010 to 2012, starring Terry Crews in Ice Cube's role. The film has become a family comedy favorite, particularly popular during holiday seasons.

About Are We There Yet

Are We There Yet is a family road-trip comedy starring Ice Cube as Nick Persons, a sports memorabilia collector who agrees to drive two children across several states to reunite them with their mother for New Year's Eve. The film leans into broad family-comedy beats while building toward a familiar emotional payoff about the work of stepping into a parental role.

Tone and audience

The film is built for a family audience and stays within a PG comedy register. The road-trip structure lets each act take place in a different setting — an airport, a train, a small town, a mountain road — and each location introduces a new obstacle that pushes Nick and the children together.

Casting

Ice Cube plays Nick, with Nia Long as Suzanne Kingston, Aleisha Allen and Philip Bolden as her children Lindsey and Kevin, and Jay Mohr in a supporting role. Tracy Morgan provides the voice of Nick's car, the running comic device that narrates the protagonist's frustrations through the second act.

Production

Are We There Yet was released theatrically by Columbia Pictures and was followed by a sequel, Are We Done Yet?, and a longer-running television adaptation. The film is part of Ice Cube's broader move from music into family-friendly studio comedy during the 2000s.

Where to watch

Are We There Yet is available to rent or buy on major digital storefronts. Streaming availability has rotated through several services since release; family-film channels often carry it during seasonal programming.

Related cast pages

Viewers who liked the family comedy here often also look up the Horton Hears a Who cast and the Red One cast.

How to read this cast page

Cast lists work best as a quick reference rather than a transcript of the credits. The principal cast section above lists the actors most viewers will recognise from marketing and from the first episode or first act. The character each actor plays is shown alongside the name, with short relationship cues where they help.

Recurring versus principal cast

Television in particular distinguishes between “series regulars,” who appear in most episodes, and “recurring” or “guest” performers who appear only in some. Recurring cast can shift between seasons: someone introduced as a guest can be promoted to a regular role if the writers decide the character should stay. When that has happened on this title, we update the cast list rather than leave outdated billing in place.

Why character descriptions stay short

We keep character notes brief and free of spoilers. Late-season twists, deaths, and identity reveals are part of why audiences watch a show or a film, and a cast page that gives them away in the first paragraph is harder to use casually. If something is essential to introducing a character — a job, a family relationship, a faction — we include it; otherwise we leave it out.

Spelling and credits

Names are written here the way the production credits them. Where actors are credited differently in different markets, we use the credit listed in the production's official press notes. Stage names, mononyms, and special characters are preserved.

Suggesting changes

If you spot a name we have wrong, a character description that has gone out of date after a new season, or a credit that is missing, the contact page explains how to reach us. We update individual cast pages rather than rewriting the site, so corrections we receive turn into changes on this page directly.