Product Details

• Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Josh Charles, Alexandra Wentworth, Beau Bridges, Walter Olkewicz
• Directors: Peter Gould
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: April 18, 2006
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000E1NXBS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,277 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Meeting Daddy" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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MEETING DADDY - DVD Movie

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Too Funny, March 1, 2007

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Jan E. Elkins "libraryhag" (Salt Lake City, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Meeting Daddy (DVD)

I came across this movie on cable and could not stop watching. It is quirky and crazy. I am from the south so it rang very true to me. Try it.

2.0 out of 5 stars Ruined by an ending, October 12, 2008

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J. Brown - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Meeting Daddy (DVD)

This movie was a reasonably entertaining comedy up until the last 5 minutes, nothing special but certainly not bad, then came the ending which made no sense and seemed tacked on. I would recommend skipping this one.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Potential. Poor Execution., October 10, 2008

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Michael B. Druxman "A Good Story is a Terribl... (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Meeting Daddy (DVD)

I think that writer-director Peter Gould and his fellow filmmakers intended that this 1998 movie should be a comedy, sort of a down South version of MEET THE PARENTS. Unfortunately, though the potential is there for a hilarious romp, neither the script, the direction, nor the actors are very funny.

I'm not saying that the actors aren't good (They are.) or that the film doesn't have other merits (It does.). It's just that the people involved don't appear to have that special gift for doing comedy, thus we're given a straight light drama with several missed opportunities for laughter.

Josh Charles plays a struggling Los Angeles Jewish novelist who travels to Georgia to meet the family of his girl friend (Alexandra Wentworth). These include her ailing, cantankerous, bigoted father (Lloyd Bridges in his final film role) and her brothers, Walter Olkewicz and Beau Bridges.

What was supposed to be a two-day visit with Alexandra's family turns into a two-week nightmare, with Charles finding himself having to virtually baby-sit Bridges for the entire time.

Though he looks shockingly ill, Bridges still manages to steal every scene in which he appears.

Kristy Swanson co-stars. The ending of this film might surprise you.

© Michael B. Druxman