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My Father the Hero (1994)

Director: Steve Miner

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From Time Out Film Guide

A Hollywood remake of the French comedy Mon Père, ce héros in which Depardieu reprises his role as the discomforted father of a pubescent girl. André arrives at the apartment of his ex-wife (Hutton) to whisk daughter Nicole on a get-to-know-you vacation. In Nassau, Nicole (Heigl) is mortified at the idea of anyone suspecting he's her father and starts fabricating a lifestyle to impress heart-throb Ben (James). Meanwhile lonely André falls for the local manhunter Diana. Makes Baywatch seem intellectual.

Author: WH

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My Father the Hero

Cast & crew

Director: Steve Miner

Producer: Jacques Bar, Jean-Louis Livi

Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Katherine Heigl, Emma Thompson, Dalton James, Lauren Hutton, Stephen Tobolowsky full cast

Duration: 90 mins


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