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Fathers' Day
1997
Desperate to track down her wayward teenage son, a woman contacts a pair of old flames and tells each that he's the boy's father, setting in motion a forced-buddy, on-the-road romp. Billy Crystal and Robin Williams shared the screen for the first time in this remake of the 1984 French farce "Les Comperes." Read more
| Starring | Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nastassja Kinski |
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| Director | Ivan Reitman |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Fathers' Day
Desperate to track down her wayward teenage son, a woman contacts a pair of old flames and tells each that he's the boy's father, setting in motion a forced-buddy, on-the-road romp. Billy Crystal and Robin Williams shared the screen for the first time in this remake of the 1984 French farce "Les Comperes."
| Starring | Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nastassja Kinski, Charlie Hofheimer |
|---|---|
| Director | Ivan Reitman |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 35 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, English |
| Released | DVD: 25 Sep 1998 Production year: 1997 |
| Format | DVD |
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A surprisingly unfunny comedy (based on the French movie Les Compères) starring Billy Crystal and Robin Williams as two men who are both told by Nastassja Kinski that they are the father of her wayward missing teenage son, in an attempt to get them to help her find him. From the director of Ghostbusters, Ivan Reitman, this had the potential to be hilarious, but instead falls alarmingly flat thanks to a weak and jokeless script, which even the combined comedic talents of Williams and Crystal can't perk up. Disappointing.
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Kinski's teenage son runs away from home in LA, after yet another row with dad. She calls old boyfriend Crystal,... read more on Time Out
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
catastrophic waste of talent
Dismal, hectic farce which runs out of steam within the first few minutes and then never picks up again; add in a joyless cast and a script with about two jokes, and you’ve got yourself a major stinker.
It seemed like it couldn’t go wrong: Billy Crystal and Robin Williams, two of the funniest comedians around, teaming up with one of the most accomplished comedy directors, helmer of Dave, Twins and Ghostbusters…but it did go wrong. Badly, badly wrong.
In the end, it’s not quite as appalling as it’s reputed to be, but it’s still pretty awful.
And no, it’s not a kid’s movie, despite the title, with the Goth metal concerts, drunken teens and explicitly swearing drug dealers that make up its ramshackle ‘plot’. -
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
catastrophic waste of talent
Dismal, hectic farce which runs out of steam within the first few minutes and then never picks up again; add in a joyless cast and a script with about two jokes, and you’ve got yourself a major stinker.
It seemed like it couldn’t go wrong: Billy Crystal and Robin Williams, two of the funniest comedians around, teaming up with one of the most accomplished comedy directors, helmer of Dave, Twins and Ghostbusters…but it did go wrong. Badly, badly wrong.
In the end, it’s not quite as appalling as it’s reputed to be, but it’s still pretty awful.
And no, it’s not a kid’s movie, despite the title, with the Goth metal concerts, drunken teens and explicitly swearing drug dealers that make up its ramshackle ‘plot’. -
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Desperate to track down her wayward teenage son, a woman contacts a pair of old flames and tells each that he's the boy's father, setting in motion a forced-buddy, on-the-road romp. Billy Crystal and ... -