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6.4/10 • 4.2K

2016-12-221h 51m

Comedy

Of all the guys his daughter could have chosen...

A dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend.

Directors
John Hamburg
Editors
William Kerr

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Bryan Cranston

    Bryan Cranston

    Ned Fleming

  2. James Franco

    James Franco

    Laird Mayhew

  3. Zoey Deutch

    Zoey Deutch

    Stephanie Fleming

  4. Megan Mullally

    Megan Mullally

    Barb Fleming

  5. Griffin Gluck

    Griffin Gluck

    Scotty Fleming

  6. Keegan-Michael Key

    Keegan-Michael Key

    Gustav

  7. Kaley Cuoco

    Kaley Cuoco

    Justine (voice)

  8. Cedric the Entertainer

    Cedric the Entertainer

    Lou Dunne

  9. Zack Pearlman

    Zack Pearlman

    Kevin Dingle

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Reno

Sep 16, 2017

5/10

Printing biz meets the app biz! Paper versus digital! This is not the theme something you could see for the first time. I have seen many classics, probably you would have as well. But the difference is it was a different cast and a bit modernised. Modernised means just the story set in the todays technological trend world like almost everything that related to AI we use in our daily life. It's yet to be a lifestyle, I mean new norm. So you can see a few people who had already progressed like we say Silicon/IT guys. That's the background and with the same old concept that the parents, particularly the father of the girl meets her boyfriend. When they do, those misunderstanding, generation gap and what else, all hell breaks loose. The comedies were okay. In some places it was too much. Instead of a laugh, it only annoyed. Though there were some good jokes, except I hardly had any good laugh in my entire watch. I remind you again that it was an okay film. Some people might find it good, some won't. Still a watchable film for the good performances. It's a face-off between James Franco and Bryan Cranston as expected. Elon Musk was a surprise. It had several opportunities to be better like turnaround its narration, yet they stuck with the same concept for the whole film. So other than mild entertainment, there's nothing in it to laud. I hope it all had ended here. Please, no sequel. 5/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$38,000,000.00
Revenue
$118,102,725.00
Keywords
daughterrivalrytauntingparent-in-law child-in-law relationshipzealousplayfulsentimentalhilariouswhimsicalsympatheticvibrant