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Except for its emphasis on paternal responsibility, FATHER’S DAY is one long dirty joke. The superb cast is wasted in this minor movie. Ultimately the film endorses promiscuity, fornication, adultery, homosexuality and 16-year-olds involved in sex, drugs and rock & roll with the attitude that everything is okay since everybody does it. This is a 1960’s pagan worldview plopped down in the middle of the 90s. Evidently, the filmmakers don’t realize that the 60s are over and long gone.
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(Pa, LLL, VV, N, SS, A, D, M) Pagan worldview; 19 obscenities, 8 profanities & excessive sexual talk with homosexual scatological & heterosexual jokes; moderate violence including several scenes of head butting, kicks to the groin & fist fights; revealing clothing; implied fornication; drinking; smoking & drug use; and lying, stealing, fraud & deception
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FATHER’S DAY is a dirty little movie with a heart. Like sitting through a small time Catskill comic’s routine, there is a tendency to laugh and be embarrassed at the same time.
Bob and Colette’s son Scott (Charlie Hofheimer) is the apple of their eye, until he takes up with Nikki, a rock band groupie. When Bob complains about Nikki’s loose ways, Scott runs away with her.
Colette (Natassja Kinski) panics and goes to her former boyfriend Jack, played by Billy Crystal and asks him to search for Scott. She alleges that Scott is really Jack’s son. When it appears that Jack is not going to do anything, Colette goes to San Francisco and talks to Dale, played by Robin Williams, a suicidal, frustrated writer. Again, she alleges that Scott is really Dale’s son. Childless, Jack and Dale both start searching for Scott and find each other in the process.
Eventually, they find Scott at a rock concert and bring him back to their hotel in San Francisco. Scott is vomiting all over the place, so Dale takes him into the shower to wash him off and uses some language which convinces the valet and Jack’s wife who is on the phone, that Jack, Dale and Scott are involved in some strange sexual activity. This pathetic humor continues until Dale finds $5,000 on Scott, which happens to be drug money that Scott has stolen.
Scott escapes, and they chase him to Reno. The drug dealers come after Scott, and the chase continues until Jack and Dale bring Scott safely home to Bob and Colette. Jack and Dale both realize that they want children of their own, and the movie ends emphasizing the importance of fatherhood.
Except for its emphasis on paternal responsibility, FATHER’S DAY is one long dirty joke. The superb cast is wasted and seems one dimensional, in this minor film. Robin Williams and Billy Crystal have said that they always wanted to work together, and it seems they chose a project too quickly.
Ultimately, the film endorses promiscuity, fornication, adultery, homosexuality, and 16-year-olds involved in sex, drugs and rock & roll with the attitude that everything is okay since everybody does it. This is a 1960’s pagan worldview plopped down in the middle of the 90s, without the campiness of Austin Powers. In other words, the filmmakers don’t even get the point that the 60s are over and long gone.
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