Smart aleck lawyer, Jack Lawrence is one day visited by an ex-girlfriend who tells him her child is his. Enter Dale Putley. A depressed goofball who is also a writer, Dale meets with the same ex-girlfriend who also tells him her child is his. One day Jack and Dale meet and discover they've been told the same story—and there is now a question of who the real father is. They learn their son is following a rock band around Sacramento, so Jack and Dale must use teamwork to find him—and then find out which one of them is the real father.
Williams and Crystal often supply, through their ad libs, what the writers may have left out.
– Michael Wilmington,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jul 2014
fresh:
For the comic actors, this project -- an enjoyable synthesis of improvisation and adherence to the original story -- seems almost too easy. You wonder why it took them so long.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
14 Jul 2014
rotten:
A movie of implacable unfunniness.
– Joe Morgenstern,
Wall Street Journal,
14 Jul 2014
rotten:
Father's Day has a few laugh-out-loud sequences, but it's nothing to celebrate.