best movie i've ever seen.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Father's Day (1997): Dir: Ivan Reitman / Cast: Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Nastassja Kinski, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bruce Greenwood: Blatantly cruel comedy that mocks fatherhood. What Nastassja Kinski does in this so-called comedy is cruel. Sure, she loves her son but she also tells two men that they are the father of her runaway son. Billy Crystal plays a lawyer who can deliver a nasty head-butt, and Robin Williams is a depressed writer who claims that attempts at suicide is the only thing keeping him alive. They both search for who they believe is their son. They also learn that he is wanted for stolen drug money. Humor is in poor taste particularly when the sincere real father goes out searching. Both leads are told that they are the real father to spare their feelings in conclusion. It is an ugly sick joke. Not a high point for Ivan Reitman who has directed such superior comedies as Ghostbusters and Dave. Crystal and Williams recycle tired material that doesn't do either one justice. Both have done superior work and will no doubt survive this trash. Kinski plays the kid's mother in the film's least sympathetic role. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is also wasted in a cardboard role. An absolute waste for all talent involved. During the next family gathering copies of this film should be used as target practice or part of a bonfire. This is the kind of film that not even dad would laugh at. Score: 0 / 10

FATHER'S DAY, starring Robin Williams and Billy Crystal, is fairly middling as comedies go. Still, the chemistry between Williams and Crystal is very good and both deliver a number of laughs with their own brands of comedy. Billy Crystal is the straight-laced, sarcastic type while Robin Williams is a high-strung, emotional wreck with a penchant for improvisation (his character is an out-of-work playwright/actor).The premise of the movie is that a woman (Nastassja Kinski) calls and tells each of them that they're the father of her 16-year-old son who just ran away. Then they go on the road in search of him and hijinks ensue. While the concept is rather far-fetched, if you throw plausibility out the window this movie can be enjoyable. Both of the leads get to revel in their schticks for what is essentially a paycheck gig, but it still looked like they had fun working with each other.The acting across the board is OK, but this type of movie doesn't really require too much anyway. The most important facet is the humor, and for the most part this movie does fine. A lot of the gags were lowbrow and borderline tasteless, but for what it's worth I laughed quite a bit. That being said, there is one gag involving a porto-potty that was drawn out a little too long.On the negative side, there was a couple of things that disturbed me a little bit, considering Robin Williams recent death, namely, a couple of suicide jokes. When an actor plays a role, certain elements of their real life inevitably make it into the character, and there were some interesting comparisons one could make between Robin's character in this movie and his personality in real life. What really shocked me, however, was his introductory scene which shows him about to blow his brains out with a pistol. On the lighter side, there was a completely out-of-the-blue cameo in the last act that really threw me for a loop.Generally speaking, this is yet another one of Robin Williams' lesser comedies. It takes a ridiculous concept, stretches it a little too thin and piles on lowbrow gags, but it was still pretty funny in spite of itself.

This is an American comedy staring Billy Crystal and Robin Williams and is about two grown men who are led to believe that they are the father of the same boy. An old high school girlfriend has lost her son and she approaches these men separately and tells them that the boy is their son and that he has gone missing. The men decide to seek him out and inadvertently meet and find out that they are chasing the same boy. Billy Crystal plays an upperclass lawyer who likes to think he is pretty straight and has an average life (if you count two ex-wives average, which unfortunately most people do) while Robin Williams is a crazy author who's life is quite dull, to the point where he wants to commit suicide. As for comedies, this movie is typical of America. It is funny but it is only because Robin William's character is quite bizarre. Billy Crystal, who is supposed to be a very funny comedian, is quite dull. Without the unusual character of Robin Williams, this movie would basically suck. There is a lot of Americanisms in this silly movie, such as everybody living happy at the end, and the kid lying to make everybody happy. Seriously though, lying may heal a short term wound, but it really does aggravate it in the long run. Its like putting a band aid on a bullet wound. Robin Williams' character is quite funny, but, unlike the French characters, his is just simply crazy. The French make cool characters because they are quirky. They are not outright crazy as the Americans tend to make theirs, they are just normal people with little extra things added to them. Still, can't blame them for their lack of creativity.

Robin Williams and Billy Crystal are two of the funniest comedians of their generation, and they combine forces for this comedy, about two fathers who go searching for their respective suns who ran away. Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, and Natasha Kinski. I went to see this movie, appropriately enough, with my father. The movie was alright, but considering the talent involved this movie should have been much funnier. The two just seem to be sleepwalking through a badly done script. In this movie they play two fathers trying to track down their respective sons, who have run away together. While it may not be the most original the two should have been able to be funny enough to make this movie work. Unfortunately these two men are above these roles. The two have done far funnier roles separately, and it is too bad, that these two comedians get together so rarely on screen, and it is even more unfortunate this collaboration falls so short. Don't get me wrong this isn't a bad movie, and it does have some good moments, but it could have been funnier. Watch for an appearance by Mel Gibson in an interesting role.