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A newly separated father has to learn how to date again with help from his teenage son who himself dreams of conquering one girl's heart.A newly separated father has to learn how to date again with help from his teenage son who himself dreams of conquering one girl's heart.A newly separated father has to learn how to date again with help from his teenage son who himself dreams of conquering one girl's heart.
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A movie about divorce, realizing what is important and the bond between a father and son. After his wife (Moss) leaves Dr. Bingham (Grant) he goes into a deep depression. With help from his son Dr. Bingham changes his image and starts dating again and seems happy. When his son falls in love he puts his plans on hold and helps his son, and learns more about his wife in the process. This movie is really funny and unexpectedly touching in parts. Dr. Bingham thinks only of himself until his son falls in love and then the bond between him and his son starts to grow and it is fun to watch how they interact with each other. This movie was very surprising one of the funniest movies that has come out in the last few months. I give it a B.
Dad (richard grant) is going through a breakup of his marriage, while son (pacar) is just falling in love with a girl he has just met. Mom (moss) is staying with the next door neighbor (manheim), and has also met someone new. They all still lean on each other when necessary. Can they help each other get through all this? Smaller roles for rita rudner, janeane garofalo, jenna elfman. It's cute....has a strange vibe at the start, but the chemistry gets better as it goes along. In the beginning, dad seems to be channeling hugh grant, sounding and acting just like him. But he settles down after that, and the film gets better. Good, solid story, as the son teaches dad to be a playa in the dating world. And dad teaches son to get more serious when he falls in love. This is listed as a comdy. No real big laughs, but it's good. Written and directed by barra grant. So many grants... wonder if she is related to richard. Or hugh.
This is a basic get some money rom com without much com and not a lot of rom either. I cannot but think they just produced this out of the romcom sausage machine and used the quantity rather than quality attitude in the hopes it would be a success.
Stop me if you've heard this plot before: Wife leaves hubby because he's become too boring and inattentive. Hubby must somehow reconnect with the youthful self she fell in love with in order to win her back.
In the interim, the writer and director have to come up with a bunch of "funny" stuff to happen to Hubby before he finally achieves his goal. This includes him learning to be a stud and hooking up with a host of really unappealing ladies, including Jenna Elfman as his sushi-crazed secretary and Janeane Garofalo as an unorthodox Orthodox Jew. But the "funny" stuff is on the order of him going nuts at an 80's Karaoke night, and bowling badly while under the influence of cannabis fudge. I'd call these scenes "funny-adjacent" rather than funny. They're similar to scenes you'd find in a funny movie, minus the laughs.
Bottom Line: Richard Grant is no Hugh Grant, but this film is watchable--just.
In the interim, the writer and director have to come up with a bunch of "funny" stuff to happen to Hubby before he finally achieves his goal. This includes him learning to be a stud and hooking up with a host of really unappealing ladies, including Jenna Elfman as his sushi-crazed secretary and Janeane Garofalo as an unorthodox Orthodox Jew. But the "funny" stuff is on the order of him going nuts at an 80's Karaoke night, and bowling badly while under the influence of cannabis fudge. I'd call these scenes "funny-adjacent" rather than funny. They're similar to scenes you'd find in a funny movie, minus the laughs.
Bottom Line: Richard Grant is no Hugh Grant, but this film is watchable--just.
WHAT!!! 28 year old playing 17! Who they kidding? Why do they do this?
Don't they ever learn.
Stop this stupidity.
Use actors of the age they are playing.
To use somebody almost twice the age they are supposed to be playing is ridiculous.
And to the actor: why do you let them do this to you? You have no shame. Are you only in it for the money and and don't care about letting the producers and directors walk all over you? Act your age not somebody half it.
Don't they ever learn.
Stop this stupidity.
Use actors of the age they are playing.
To use somebody almost twice the age they are supposed to be playing is ridiculous.
And to the actor: why do you let them do this to you? You have no shame. Are you only in it for the money and and don't care about letting the producers and directors walk all over you? Act your age not somebody half it.
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- TriviaIn real life, Grant abstains from drinking alcohol, as he has an alcohol intolerance. If he does drink alcohol he is violently sick for up to 24 hours. After casting him as an alcoholic man, the director made Grant drink a bottle of champagne and half a bottle of vodka during the course of a night so he could experience drunkenness.
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