I Love My Dad

Name: I Love My Dad
Genre: Comedy
Released: August 5, 2022
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 59
Cast: Afrim Gjonbalaj, Amy Landecker, Claudia Sulewski, J.P. Edwards, James Morosini

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: August 5, 2022 | R

Starring: Afrim Gjonbalaj, Amy Landecker, Claudia Sulewski, J.P. Edwards, James Morosini, LilRel Howery, Patrick Klein, Patton Oswalt, Rachel Dratch, Ricky Pak, Ricky Velez, Sarah Helbringer, Seamus Callahan, Shari Fairchild, Zae'on James

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Available on VOD starting August 12, 2022.
Winner of the Jury Award for best narrative feature at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival.

Summary: Inspired by writer, director, and star James Morosini’s true life experience, I Love My Dad follows Chuck (Patton Oswalt), a hopelessly estranged father who desperately wants to reconnect with his troubled son, Franklin (James Morosini). Blocked on social media and concerned for his son’s life, Chuck impersonates a waitress online andInspired by writer, director, and star James Morosini’s true life experience, I Love My Dad follows Chuck (Patton Oswalt), a hopelessly estranged father who desperately wants to reconnect with his troubled son, Franklin (James Morosini). Blocked on social media and concerned for his son’s life, Chuck impersonates a waitress online and starts checking in with Franklin. But things begin to spiral when Franklin falls for this imaginary girl (Claudia Sulewski) and wants nothing more than to meet her in person, as Chuck has inadvertently catfished his own son. … Expand

Director: James Morosini

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 96 min

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Bobby LePire

Mar 17, 2022

While it is not for everyone, those who can stomach the admittedly cringey, well everything about the plot, will find much to love. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Aug 5, 2022

I Love My Dad is the kind of story that doesn’t overthink what makes it so laugh-out-loud funny, but there’s a whole lot of ugly, extremely human things going on each time its comedy makes you cover your eyes. Read full review

Collider Ross Bonaime

Apr 6, 2022

I Love You Dad has its heart in the right place with its cringey narrative and story of how much forgiveness those who love us truly deserve. Read full review

William Bibbiani

Aug 5, 2022

Whether you laugh with I Love My Dad or never shake the queasy feeling in your stomach, Morosini’s film is remarkably sensitive and eerily confessional. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Mar 15, 2022

[Morosini] holds back the personal stuff you can tell a stranger but not your dad — the kind of material good comedians build their shows around — making the result feel like a sitcom more than a brutally honest movie. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Aug 4, 2022

Occasionally creative but mostly distasteful and thuddingly unfunny, this is the kind of story that asks us to take wild leaps of faith at every turn—and then buy into a redemption story arc that is neither plausible nor earned. Read full review

The Playlist Jason Bailey

Mar 15, 2022

I Love My Dad cannot overcome its off-putting premise. Nothing is out of bounds, of course (especially in comedy), but if there’s an approach to make the material palatable, either played straight or broad, it is left undiscovered here. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Aug 17, 2022

Regardless of the cringe, there are things that while not 100% creative, are at least not within a comfort zone as far as comedies go, but it also depends on when the joke stops being funny, and personally, for me, it runs out of stamina before it even gets halfway through, so the rest is upRegardless of the cringe, there are things that while not 100% creative, are at least not within a comfort zone as far as comedies go, but it also depends on when the joke stops being funny, and personally, for me, it runs out of stamina before it even gets halfway through, so the rest is up to each viewer.… Expand

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