Directed by:
Ivan ReitmanCinematography:
Stephen H. BurumComposer:
James Newton HowardCast:
Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nastassja Kinski, Charlie Hofheimer, Bruce Greenwood, Dennis Burkley, Charles Rocket (more)Plots(1)
Jack Lawrence is a successful Los Angeles attorney. He's got a good job, a lovely wife, a nice home, a great car--aside from a limited amount of patience, Jack has pretty much everything he wants. Dale Putley has been on the brink of despair for so long that he's starting to enjoy the view. A would-be writer scraping out a threadbare existence in San Francisco, Dale is a bundle of neuroses just waiting to unravel. Dale needs something to worry about in his life besides himself. Suddenly, before you can say "romance from the past," Jack Lawrence and Dale Putley, two complete strangers and polar opposites, are sharing a car, pooling their wits, and rethinking everything about themselves as they try to track down a teenage runaway that each believes might be his son. (official distributor synopsis)
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Compared to the French original, this is nothing. You laugh a few times and have a relatively decent time (thanks to the great actors), but compared to the original it's really weak.
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This comedy, which is a remake of a French film, wants to say so much, it wants to take viewers to different places, but what is happening simply isn't as interesting as one would wish. Billy Crystal and Robin Williams are probably a good team, but their humor just didn't work here. Their characters weren't funny to me, even though they were supposed to be the funniest in the whole movie. That is quite sad in itself.
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Hollywood remakes of French films are mostly crap, that’s a well known fact, and Father’s Day is no exception. The humour is lost, replaced by awkwardness and hamminess. Billy Crystal is boring Robin Williams embarrassing.
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