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FATHERS' DAY (1997) |
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MORGAN'S RATING |
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| Jack Lawrence is a lawyer, the kind always ready to help you get what's coming to him. Dale Putley is a shambles, a minor writer and major goofball. They have nothing in common-- until they team to track down a runaway teen each believes might be his son. Crystal quips and Williams connips as they bicker, bond...and plunge deep into that uncharted neighborhood called parenthood. In this neighborhood, there's a laugh around every corner. |
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| Robin Williams (Dale Putley), Billy Crystal (Jack Lawrence), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Carrie Lawrence), Nastassja Kinski (Collette Andrews), Charlie Hofheimer (Scott Andrews), Bruce Greenwood (Bob Andrews), Dennis Burkley (Calvin), Haylie Johnson (Nikki), Charles Rocket (Russ Trainor), Patti D'Arbanville (Shirley Trainor), Jared Harris (Lee), Louis Lombardi (Matt), the Sugar Ray band, Alan Berger (Rex), Tom Verica (Peter), Jennifer Crystal (Rose), Jason Reitman (Wrong Kid in Alley), Catherine Reitman (Victoria), Mel Gibson (Scott the body piercer, uncredited), Mary McCormack (Woman with broken car, uncredited), Angelica Pamintaun (Pretty Woman, uncredited). |
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ALL SHE SAID WAS "MY SON IS YOURS." UNFORTUNATELY, SHE SAID IT TO BOTH OF THEM. |
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION |
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DIRECTOR: Ivan Reitman (Kindergarten Cop).
WRITERS: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Francis Veber.
PRODUCERS: Joel Silver and Ivan Reitman.
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Sheldon Kahn.
CO-PRODUCERS: Gordon A. Webb and Karyn Fields.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Daniel Goldberg, Joe Medjuck and Francis Veber.
ORIGINAL MUSIC: James Newton Howard.
DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros. |
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Dale: How did you get her husband to talk?
Jack: I head-butted him.
Dale: How Joe Pesci of you. What are you gonna do with her, run her tits through the Visa machine? |
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FACTS |
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RELEASE DATE: May 9th, 1997 (USA)
BOX OFFICE OPENING: $8.7 million (USA)
BOX OFFICER RESULT: $28.6 million (USA)
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $35.6 million
- Nominated for one 1998 Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress. |
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Dale: Jack, look at this.
Jack: It's money. I remember it from when I was single. |
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Dale: For years I've thought about killing myself. It's the only thing that kept me going. |
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Nikki: Well, Scotty, you're boring. I liked you for a while, but now I can't stand looking at you. Even your voice makes me sick.
Dale: That was lovely.
Jack: Yes, Hallmark is waiting for you. |
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CRITICAL COMMENTS |
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| "Lackluster...gets whatever mileage it has from the two comic stars' personalities...but the boy is extremely dislikeable, and a subplot with his stepfather is a complete misfire." -- Leonard Maltin |
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"No masterpiece but undeniably heavy on laughs, the movie is put over by the buffed, lubricated dynamics of the two leads." -- Mike Clark, USA Today |
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| "Fathers' Day is a brainless feature-length sitcom with too much sit and no com." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times |
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