Meeting Daddy

this popped up the other morning...5 am on showtime...and i read the blurb about GA...Savannah GA it turned out...an area this native knows very well..so i watched it...very funny...offbeat...sure they made the southerners look comical..but what about Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil...hey!! you gotta laugh at yourself...Kristy Swanson is a friend's cousin...and you gotta love Lloyd and Beau together...i kept saying that looks familiar ...so does that....and what do you know?...final credits list it as filmed here...like another lost gem....Camilla with Jessica Tandy and Bridget Fonda.....i have no memory of either of these films being shot here...not as touted as the highly publicized ones i suppose....

Found this sleeper of a movie in the $1.99 bargain bin at Blockbuster and it was still not worth it. This poor attempt to mimic the gross-out humor of the Farrelly brothers falls beyond short. The plot is slow-moving, the characters are flat, and the comedy predictable. Alexandra Wentworth is way too old to play the girlfriend and her acting is just as amateur as when she was on In Living Color. Josh Charles does his best playing the more believable conservative boyfriend, but again the age difference is so obvious. Josh looks more like her son than her boyfriend. Lloyd Bridges performance is top notch and it's a shame that this was his final film, not just because he was an excellent actor but because this movie sucks big time!

I rented this movie at Blockbuster on an impulse -- and I'm really glad I did. Josh Charles and Lloyd Bridges are laugh-out-loud funny -- and kristy swanson is, quite frankly, hot hot hot. She has one scene that surprised me so much I spit lemonade all over the coffee table. There were a few slow spots but I spent most of the movie laughing. This is absolutely worth watching.

The plot couldn't be simpler. "My girlfriend's family turns out to be weird." Nothing wrong with that, except that there's nothing lovable about the weirdness (the closest to lovable is irascible, that's Lloyd Bridges) and the boyfriend and girlfriend are just cardboard figures themselves. Alexandra Wentworth is still beautiful, chipmunk cheeks and all, but she looks too mature for a college kid. We're supposed to identify with the male lead, but to see the scene through his eyes is to see a world that is neither attractive nor believable and the movie just doesn't reward the effort.

One of the best little films I've seen in a long time. Don't let the box art on the video fool you, this is NO family film! It's a highly original combination of romantic comedy, gross-out humor with a little bit of heart. Josh Charles (from Sports Night) is an "angry young man" writer who goes to meet his girlfriend's family in Savannah, Ga. The girlfriend is played by Alexandra Wentworth who I've never seen before but she' s funny and sexy and believable, I'd sure go to Savannah for her! Lloyd Bridges is funny/threatening as Wentworth's father, apparently this was his last film (I thought he died after "Mafia" can someone clear this up).

His performance is truly outstanding in this movie. But, in addition to the performances, this director shows flashes of a really whacked-out imagination -- there's a scene with a talking severed toe, a vomiting scene that I can hardly describe and some dialogue that'll really take you by surprise.