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- 1997
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 38 m
- 1997
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 38 m
Summary A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.
Directed By: Ivan Reitman
Written By: Francis Veber, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
- 1997
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 38 m
- 1997
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 38 m
Fathers' Day
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User Score
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5.5
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Summary A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.
Directed By: Ivan Reitman
Written By: Francis Veber, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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26% Positive
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7 Reviews
44% Mixed
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30% Negative
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8 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
43
26% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
44% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
30% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Crystal’s deadpan expressions and one liners interlock perfectly with Williams’s multiple personalities and verbal asides. They’re like basketball all-stars flipping no-look passes, trading slam-dunks and practically chest-bumping each other. Director Ivan Reitman doesn’t have to do more than keep time.
Hollywood's big-screen answer to France's 1983 charming film Les Comperes is a wacky star vehicle wildly out of control. [9 May 1997, p.D1]
The movie is unambitious and sweet and nothing more. Precisely what we expect from producer-director Ivan Reitman these days, after good-natured audacity got his career started with hits like Animal House and Stripes. [9 May 1997, p.5]
The mechanical possibilities are worked out with precision and relish, but [the director] is careful not to allow the comedy to linger too long in the realm of real feelings. A platitudinous ending restores a safe and sane emotional order.”
There's an air of desperation about this movie - a sense that the stars are yearning to do something so patently undemanding that it just can't miss.
Robin Williams and Billy Crystal can each provoke a lot more laughs in a minute of standup than they jointly manage during the entire running time of Fathers' Day.
Add to these problems the fact that Fathers' Day is a comedy starring two reputedly hilarious people who don't make you laugh once, and you have a movie that would be great if everything about it weren't terrible.
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Based on 4 User Ratings
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 4 User Ratings
5.5
25% Positive
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50% Mixed
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Production Company
Northern Lights Entertainment,
Silver Pictures,
Warner Bros.
Release Date May 9, 1997
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline The reason why some animals eat their young.
Awards
Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination
