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Fathers' Day is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Nastassja Kinski. It is a remake of the 1983 French film Les Compères.

Fathers' Day
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ivan Reitman
Screenplay by	Lowell Ganz Babaloo Mandel
Based on	Les Compères by Francis Veber
Produced by	Ivan Reitman Joel Silver
Starring	Robin Williams Billy Crystal Julia Louis-Dreyfus Nastassja Kinski
Cinematography	Stephen H. Burum
Edited by	Wendy Greene Bricmont Sheldon Kahn
Music by	James Newton Howard
Production companies	Silver Pictures Northern Lights Entertainment
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	May 9, 1997 (1997-05-09)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$85 million
Box office	$35.7 million[1]

In the film, Collette Andrews (Kinski) enlists two former lovers, cynical lawyer Jack Lawrence (Crystal) and lonely, ex-hippie, suicidal writer Dale Putley (Williams) to help her search for her runaway teenage son Scott by telling each man that he is the father. When Jack and Dale run into each other and find out what is happening, they work together to find Scott and determine the identity of the actual father.

The film features an appearance by the musical group Sugar Ray. It was a major critical and commercial failure.

Plot

16-year-old Scott Andrews runs away from home with his girlfriend, Nikki. His mother Collette visits her ex-boyfriend, lawyer Jack Lawrence, telling him that Scott is really his son and wants him to find the boy: Jack refuses at first, but changes his mind when work keeps him in San Francisco overnight.

Meanwhile, writer Dale Putley is planning suicide when he gets a phone call from Collette, of whom he is another ex, and she tells him the same story.

Both men start their search with Russ, Nikki's father. Dale and Jack get little help from him, but it does lead to them meeting each other. Mistakenly assuming that they each have a different missing son, they think "both boys" are mixed up with Nikki. They decide to team up.

Jack and Dale visit Nikki's mother, Shirley, learning Nikki went on the road to follow rock band Sugar Ray. When she asks to see pictures of their sons, they finally discover Collette has told them both the same story about being Scott's father. They call her, who confesses she doesn't know which is the father, but begs them to find Scott.

The two agree and they head for Sacramento, finding Scott, drunk, lovestruck and dumped by Nikki. They bring him back to their hotel room, and when he wakes the next day, he is not pleased by the news that one of them might be his father and that Nikki is following Sugar Ray. Jack leaves Dale to watch over Scott, but he escapes by pouring coffee on Dale's lap. Dale finds Jack and they head to Reno, to Sugar Ray's next gig.

In Reno, Scott meets up with Nikki and the other groupies. Bumping into two drug dealers that he scammed out of $5,000 to buy a necklace for Nikki, he escapes, only to be accidentally run down by Jack and Dale. Now with a broken arm, Scott demands they leave him alone.

That night, the three finally bond when Scott opens up to Jack and Dale—Nikki is his first love, but his parents disapprove of her, so he ran away. When Scott tells him about the drug dealers, they try to help him. They drive to Nikki's hotel, but when Jack and Dale go inside, the drug dealers spot Scott in the car and plan to kidnap and kill him. Scott escapes in Jack's rental car.

When the two fathers emerge from the hotel, Jack assumes Scott had been lying to them the whole time and quits, deciding to go home. Just then, his wife Carrie appears, following him (and Dale) because she's been confused and concerned over Jack's odd behavior. He tells her the truth about Scott, that he could be the father.

Dale departs while Jack and Carrie argue about Jack's negative feelings for Scott, making her fear how he'll react with his own child. Seeing her point, he heads to the Sugar Ray concert, finding Dale there also looking for Scott. They find him as he confronts Nikki, who breaks up with him. Heartbroken, Scott is suddenly grabbed by the drug dealers, whom Dale and Jack attack, resulting in a huge fight erupting in the concert crowd.

Freed from jail the next day, Jack, Dale, and Scott head home where Collette and his father Bob embrace their son. She tells Scott that neither Jack nor Dale is his dad, but he is touched that his parents wanted him home so badly. Before Jack and Dale go, Scott lies to both, separately and privately, that they're the father. Jack realises Scott lied, but is happy as he now has a new view of having children.

Dale, having borrowed Jack's car to get to the airport, spots a woman having car trouble also on her way there. Discovering Virginia is single and also heading to San Francisco, Dale offers her a lift by car, to Jack's annoyance.

Cast

• Robin Williams as Dale Putley
• Billy Crystal as Jack Lawrence
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Carrie Lawrence
• Nastassja Kinski as Collette Andrews
• Charlie Hofheimer as Scott Andrews
• Bruce Greenwood as Bob Andrews
• Charles Rocket as Russ Trainor
• Patti D'Arbanville as Shirley Trainor
• Haylie Johnson as Nikki
• Jared Harris as Lee
• Louis Lombardi as Matt
• Claudette Wells as Ms. Tweesbury
• Paul Herman as Mr. Barmore

Mary McCormack portrays Virginia in an uncredited appearance, while Mel Gibson makes a brief uncredited cameo appearance. Catherine, Jason, and Caroline Reitman, children of director Ivan Reitman, all have small roles.

Release

In South Africa, Fathers' Day was released as What's Up Pop's?, a title the distributor decided would be more appropriate for the local market. The name was subsequently changed to What's Up Pops? for DVD release, when the studio realized the apostrophe had been used incorrectly.

Box office

The film opened on May 9, 1997, finishing at #2 behind The Fifth Element with a gross of $8,776,159. Industry observers at Warner Bros. predicted the film would open with about $9 million and would gain more over the weekend. Some have speculated that one of the reasons for the film's disappointing opening was because of releasing the film around Mother's Day.[2] In its second week, the film dropped 27% to $6.4 million, totaling to $17.5 million.[3] The film ended with a domestic gross of $28,598,376 and a worldwide gross of $35,681,080. Against a budget of $85 million, the film was a box office bomb.

Reception

Fathers' Day received generally negative reviews from critics and was commercially unsuccessful as well. It holds a 25% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 59 reviews, with an average score of 4.18/10. The site's consensus reads: "A maudlin misfire, Fathers' Day manages the difficult task of making both Billy Crystal and Robin Williams woefully unfunny."[4] Julia Louis-Dreyfus was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress for her work in the film, where she lost to Alicia Silverstone for Batman & Robin.[5] The film was also nominated for Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy at the 1997 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards but barely lost to 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag.[6]

References

External links

• Fathers' Day at Box Office Mojo
• Fathers' Day at IMDb
• Fathers' Day at Rotten Tomatoes

На других языках

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- [en] Fathers' Day (1997 film)

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[ru] День отца (фильм)

«День отца» (англ. Fathers’ day) — американская комедия, ремейк французского фильма «Папаши» 1983 года.

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