Paternity
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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 2, 1981 |
Starring:
Beverly D'Angelo, Burt Reynolds, Elizabeth Ashley, Jacqueline Brookes, Juanita Moore, Lauren Hutton, Linda Gillen, Norman Fell, Paul Dooley, Peter Billingsley
Summary:
A single man (Burt Reynolds) searches for a woman who will bear his baby with no strings attached.
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Paternity evades every serious issue it raises and blows a nice opportunity to be something more than a pleasantly run-of-the-mill entertainment. [12 Oct 1981, p.99A]
Any picture in which Burt Reynolds is a man unable to find
a woman willing to have his child is quite clearly a limber farce and,
sure enough, the most thoroughly stretched joke in Paternity, written by Charlie Peters and directed by Winnipeg comedian
David Steinberg, is how utterly wrong Reynolds is for the role of Buddy
Evans. [3 Oct 1981]
The problem is that, even though a romance develops, Buddy himself changes almost not at all, which means the film leaves a sour aftertaste. [15 June 1986, p.SUN-6]
Paternity may not be one of the dumbest excuses for a romantic comedy that ever littered the screen, but it certainly feels like a numbing inanity while you're exposed to it. [3 Oct 1981, p.C1]
Feb 18, 2019
I thought the critics were a little hard on this one. Sure, Burt Reynolds may have been miscast, but he's charming, and the banter between D'Angelo and him is excellent. Solid rom-com.
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