Fathers' Day
1997, Drama/Comedy, 1h 38m
61 Reviews 10,000+ RatingsWhat to know
A maudlin misfire, Father's Day manages the difficult task of making Billy Crystal and Robin Williams woefully unfunny. Read critic reviews
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Cast & Crew
Dale Putley
Jack Lawrence
Carrie Lawrence
Collette Andrews
Scott Andrews
Bob Andrews
Critic Reviews for Fathers' Day
All Critics (61) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (46)
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Father's Day has a few laugh-out-loud sequences, but it's nothing to celebrate.
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A movie of implacable unfunniness.
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For the comic actors, this project -- an enjoyable synthesis of improvisation and adherence to the original story -- seems almost too easy. You wonder why it took them so long.
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Williams and Crystal often supply, through their ad libs, what the writers may have left out.
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Hey, it sounded good on paper.
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Despite some laughs, there's not much of a story. But at least Williams and Crystal, old pals off the screen, seem to be enjoying themselves.
July 14, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Fathers' Day
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Nov 18, 2013Dear Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, and Ivan Reitman: WTF!!!!! Seriously! How could you mess this up so friggin badly!? SIncerely, Disappointed and Angry BAsed on a French product that I have no doubt is far better, this is the story of two men who, 17 years earlier, slept with the same woman. After all these years, her teenage son has gone missing, and she enlists the two men to help get him back. Why them? Well, one of them might be the father. She's not sure. The guy who has been the kid's father all these years may also be the father, but no one knows for sure. So what we have here is what should be a madcap comedic romp as these men try to hunt for this kid who might be their illegitimate progeny. What this actually is is a painfully unfunny, annoying, tedious, and awful f*cking mess. I think I may have legitimately been amused no more than like 3 times maximum, if that. I don't understand it either. You'd think that Williams and Crystal would be a comedy dream team, but both men just deliver their typical respective shticks, offering nothing new, or, more importantly, funny. This drags on and on with predictability out the wazoo, and I was happy when it finally ended. It's not charming, it's not interesting, and the only things keeping me from giving it a worse grade are the inclusion of Sugar Ray and a way too brief but amusing uncredited cameo from Mel Gibson. And maybe Williams's intro scene when he's on the phone. That's it. The rest of this just flat out sucks. The whole set up could be neat, but comes off as pointless and contrived. The subplot with Greenwood is pointless and rather needlessly cruel for his character and, though she's pretty, Nastassja KInski is terrible here. I'm ashamed for her, and that's not something that happens to often for me, so yeah, that says something. Bottom line: this is a pure waste of time, talent, money, and God knows what else. Not even out of curiousity do I think you should give this a look.Chris W Super Reviewer
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Jun 23, 2011Not Robin Williams at his finest, although it was funny in some scenes. Not that well plotted out either.Bethany M Super Reviewer
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Apr 28, 2009Two of the screen's most popular comic actors meet in this movie about two men brought together by unexpected circumstances. On the surface, Jack Lawrence (Billy Crystal) and Dale Putley (Robin Williams) wouldn't appear to have much in common. Jack is an efficient, serious-minded lawyer with a successful practice and a beautiful wife, Carrie (Julia-Louis Dreyfus). Dale is a very single performance artist given to dramatic mood swings and extreme overreaction to the sad state of his career. However, 17 years ago both men were involved with the same woman, Collette Andrews (Nastassja Kinski); she later had a son, Scott (Charlie Hofheimer), without being sure if Jack or Dale was actually the father. Collette chose to raise the boy on her own, but when Scott runs away from home and she can't track him down, she calls both Jack and Dale looking for help. It doesn't take long for the two men to discover that they're both looking for the same boy in the same places, and they decide to join forces, though their personalities don't get much more compatible the longer they hunt for Scott. Keep an eye peeled for a brief cameo by Mel Gibson and an appearance by the rock band Sugar Ray, shortly before their commercial breakthrough.Martin D Super Reviewer
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Apr 25, 2008One of those silly outrageous movies that is just funny so we don't care.Sunil J Super Reviewer
Fathers' Day Quotes
| Dale Putley: | For years I've thought about killing myself... it's the only thing that's kept me going. |
| Dale Putley: | That Man is insane! He has just bludgeoned me with a phone! |
| Dale Putley: | That man is insane! He bludgeoned me for no reason! |
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