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Father's Day (1997)

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Reviews Counted:30

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Rotten:24

Average Rating:4.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Desperate to track down her wayward teenage son, a woman contacts a pair of old flames and tells each that he's the boy's father, setting in motion a forced-buddy, on-the-road romp. Billy Crystal... Desperate to track down her wayward teenage son, a woman contacts a pair of old flames and tells each that he's the boy's father, setting in motion a forced-buddy, on-the-road romp. Billy Crystal and Robin Williams shared the screen for the first time in this remake of the 1984 French farce "Les Comperes." [More]

Starring: Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Nastassja Kinski, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Starring: Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Nastassja Kinski, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Charlie Hofheimer

Director: Ivan Reitman

Director: Ivan Reitman
Screenwriter: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
Composer: James Newton Howard
Producer: Gordon Webb, Karyn Fields, Joe Medjuck, Francis Veber
Story: Francis Veber
Producer: Joel Silver, Ivan Reitman

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A bland, labored, poorly written would-be comedy without a single laugh.

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An uneven and uninspired farce starring the normally riotous Crystal and Williams.

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