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5.5/10 • 754

2009-11-241h 28m

ComedyFamily

Sit. Stay. Play Dad.

Charlie and Dan have been best friends and business partners for thirty years; their Manhattan public relations firm is on the verge of a huge business deal with a Japanese company. With two weeks to sew up the contract, Dan gets a surprise: a woman he married on a drunken impulse nearly nine years before (annulled the next day) shows up to tell him he's the father of her twins, now seven, and she'll be in jail for 14 days for a political protest. Dan volunteers to keep the tykes, although he's uptight and clueless. With Charlie's help is there any way they can be dad and uncle, meet the kids' expectations, and still land the account?

Directors
Walt Becker
Writters
David Diamond, David Weissman
Editors
David Diamond, Ryan Folsey

Top Billed Cast

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  1. John Travolta

    John Travolta

    Charlie

  2. Robin Williams

    Robin Williams

    Dan

  3. Kelly Preston

    Kelly Preston

    Vicki

  4. Conner Rayburn

    Conner Rayburn

    Zach

  5. Ella Bleu Travolta

    Ella Bleu Travolta

    Emily

  6. Lori Loughlin

    Lori Loughlin

    Amanda

  7. Seth Green

    Seth Green

    Ralph White

  8. Bernie Mac

    Bernie Mac

    Jimmy Lunchbox

  9. Matt Dillon

    Matt Dillon

    Yancy Devlin

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Kamurai

Sep 20, 2020

3/10

Bad watch, won't watch again, and can't recommend. I love Robin Williams and Seth Green, but man, I don't know what is wrong with Travolta in this. I'm not a big fan of his to begin with, but he's just a jackass. Not only does he have a jerk character, but he looks like he's phoning it in too. "I'm here, I'm saying the lines." It wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't the lead character. The movie is about THEIR business, and Robin's character's kids, but personality wise Robin has to play this push over character that can't do anything but take the punches, and he doesn't do abuse humor well. He's known for absurd humor, that the situation is ridiculous and out of control, not that he's suffering from it persay. I've also always like Robin William's connection to kids and that, at heart, he's a family guy. This character that lives isolated from his kids, that can't be fun was a poor casting for him. Honestly, looking at the story even, I don't know why anyone decided to make this, unless the right names made it happen, and they just left big blank spaces in the script that said, "something ridiculous and funny" and they just slotted in things like "Seth Green gets adopted by a Guerilla". Don't waste your time with this unless you're just on a Robin Williams marathon for completionist sake.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$35,000,000.00
Revenue
$96,753,696.00
Keywords
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