I Love My Dad

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Original title: I Love My Dad
Year: 2022
Running time: 90 min.
Country: United States
Director: James Morosini
Screenwriter: James Morosini
Music: Jeremy Bullock
Cinematography: Steven Capitano Calitri
Cast: Patton Oswalt, Amy Landecker, Lil Rel Howery, James Morosini, Rachel Dratch, Claudia Sulewski, J.P. Edwards, Patrick Klein, Ricky Pak, Sarah Helbringer, Ricky Velez
Producer: Atlas Industries, Hantz Motion Pictures, American High, Burn Later Productions
Genre: Comedy | Family Relationships
Synopsis: A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.

Critics' reviews

"A comedy with a brain and a heart, a feat not easy to pull off, especially in a genre in which many filmmakers are content just to get cheap laughs"

Todd McCarthy: Deadline
"Morosini holds back the personal stuff you can tell a stranger, but not your dad, making the result feel like a sitcom more than a brutally honest movie"

Peter Debruge: Variety
"Gently funny and much more forgiving than viewers might expect, the picture plays to Oswalt's strengths"

John DeFore: The Hollywood Reporter
"Funny and deeply uncomfortable (...) Easy to enjoy but hard to stomach (...) 'I Love My Dad' would have been more satisfying experience had it swerved away from decency and good taste even harder than it already does"

David Ehrlich: IndieWire
"'I Love You Dad' has its heart in the right place (...) Oswalt gets another solid role he can sink his teeth into, and Morosoni proves himself an interesting new writer-director to watch"

Ross Bonaime: Collider
"'I Love My Dad' feels tonally adrift, stuck in a comedy/drama dead zone until its final act when Oswalt goes earnestly all-in on his character, but Morosini can't figure out how to end this story"

Brian Tallerico: rogerebert.com
"Sunk by an off-putting premise (...) It's the kind of movie that gets praised for being risky, but not for actually being any good"

Jason Bailey: The Playlist
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