Fathers' Day

1997
PG-13
1h 38m

IMDb RATING

5.3/10

17K

YOUR RATING

Robin Williams and Billy Crystal in Fathers' Day (1997)

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Buddy Comedy Road Trip Comedy Romance

A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.

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IMDb RATING

5.3/10

17K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination

Trivia
The concert was filmed at a park in Los Angeles. The scene took three days to film, and involved playing the same song over and over for all three days. To show the energy of the crowd, the extras had to cheer and "rock" to the music. On the first day everyone was up, yelling, jumping and punching their fists in the air, but by day three, most were too tired to even lift their arms, and many just remained seated.

Goofs
Jack's martini while he's eating lunch with Collette.

Quotes
Jack Lawrence: You're a tragic hero. You're Lou Gehrig.
Dale Putley: Who?
Jack Lawrence: Lou Gehrig. Everybody knows Lou Gehrig. The baseball player. He died of Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Dale Putley: Wow, what are the odds on that?

Crazy credits
Film title logo at the end of end credits

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Father's Day/Twin Town/The Fifth Element/Underworld/Children of the Revolution (1997)

Soundtracks
Young Boy
Written and Performed by Paul McCartney
Courtesy of MPL Communications

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Review

Featured review

Once is Plenty!

I just glanced at the title in the TV listing.. and for some reason read it as "Father of the Bride".. so I taped it. When I glanced at the listing again realized I was wrong and couldn't quite place it. When I came here to look it up, I realized WHY I forgot it.. If any movie with so much comic talent was ever FORGETABLE, this is it.

Perhaps, the producers should have gone the whole nine yards and cast Whoopee Goldberg as the scheming mom.. that would have made the circle complete.. but Whoopee had already made that film - with Ted Danson. And it was a lot funnier.

TO be fair, a lot of the dissatisfaction with the film is due exactly to Billy and Robin being featured. We expect more from them and, when the writing doesn't support the capabilities of the actors, the results are exactly what we see here: Mediocre schlock.

Since Reitman was the director, that lit a (Ghostbusters) bulb; I can see Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd doing a better job with it.. or even Harold Ramis and Rick Moranis.