Meeting Daddy | 
| Director: Peter Gould
Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Josh Charles, Alexandra Wentworth, Beau Bridges, Walter Olkewicz
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 92047
Format: Color, Dvd, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD061654D
UPC: 097360616545
EAN: 0097360616545
ASIN: B000E1NXBS
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
Release Date: April 18, 2006
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Product Description
Peter is a neurotic new yorker who moved to l.A. & found his dream girl a southern beauty named melanie. When melanie brings peter home to meet the family peter expects a friendly 2-day visit .. What he gets is a 2-week nightmare! Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 04/18/2006 Starring: Lloyd Bridges Josh Charles Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R
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 Ruined by an ending October 12, 2008
J. Brown
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.
 Good Potential. Poor Execution. October 11, 2008
Michael B. Druxman (Austin, TX)
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
 Too Funny March 1, 2007
Jan E. Elkins (Salt Lake City, UT United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
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