For Patton Oswalt, fatherly love gets out of hand in the trailer for I Love My Dad
Oswalt stars as a dad who catfishes his fragile, estranged son in a wayward attempt to connect
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If only Nev Schulman could get a load of this one. In the new trailer for the upcoming comedy I Love My Dad, Patton Oswalt stars as middle-aged dad Chuck Green, who finds himself trying to stay in contact with his fragile and estranged son Franklin (writer-director James Morosini) after he blocks him on social media. In a desperately wayward attempt to check in on Franklin, Chuck ends up catfishing his son vis-à-vis a Facebook profile for a charmingly age-appropriate brunette named Becca Thompson.
Although somewhat unintentionally, the idea to create Becca originally comes from Chuck’s coworker Jimmy (Lil Rel Howery, the sidekick to end all sidekicks). After Chuck laments about his recent exile from Franklin’s social media, Jimmy recalls the time he created a fake Facebook account after his ex-girlfriend blocked him, allowing him to lurk on her profile. Per Jimmy, the former paramour “never even knew.” Before taking a beat to consider the slippery slope of faking a romance with your own flesh and blood, Chuck is selecting sunny selfies for “Becca’s” Facebook profile and convincing a female friend (Rachel Dratch) to act as his Gen-Z alter-ego on phone calls with Franklin.
“This is incest,” Jimmy bluntly tells Chuck at one point (hey, everyone was thinking it). “No, it’s not!” Chuck defensively shoots back. “I’m doing this to help him!” Chuck may be confident his head is in the right place, but when the time comes to “internet kiss” his lovelorn son, words prove to be as viscerally uncomfortable as actions. If Chuck’s clandestine mission to connect with his son really is right, then why does it look and feel so wrong?
Claudia Sulewski plays the willowy, bright-eyed version of Becca that Franklin imagines himself speaking to, and Amy Landecker and Ricky Velez round out the cast.
I Love My Dad hits theaters on August 5 before becoming available on-demand on August 12. Watch it over a drink with your dad—or maybe, don’t.
31 Comments
This. Sounds. Bad.
Saw it at a festival a couple months back. I liked it a lot. The article leaves out that this actually happened with James Morosini and his real life father, and that Morosini is essentially playing himself. Fantastic performance from Patton Oswalt. But if you’re not a fan of cringe humor, it’s probably not for you.
kinky.
They really got you, didn’t they?
There is a reason the incest tab on pornhub is the most popular
ew
are you my daddy?
Don’t answer that. Also, don’t respond to “aye, Papi.”
You get the fuck out of here.
ok brother 😉
For $100 I can be
WOW! This is so, so bad. If your kid goes no contact, there is a reason. If you catfish and stalk him, that is a BIG part of the reason. I’m cringing at the boundaries being broken and terrified that stalking your child will be seen as “love” that will be rewarded by the kid forgiving his dad. ICK, just ICK!
Don’t worry, it’s not that bad! He does forgive his dad, in the end, but only because of all the really great cybersex they had with each other.
You… you understand that we don’t always have to agree with fictional characters’ actions, right?
Hey, good news! It’s only a movie you don’t have to watch.
Yes and Minions teaches kids it’s okay to be evil! The satanic messaging of modern filmmaking is truly disturbing to those of us with Christian sensibilities.
It’s a cringe comedy, don’t over think it.
Fiction isn’t real life. Hth.
OMG calm down millenial
Desperate Housewives did it, complete with the killer line “Could you let him know before he kills me and blinds himself?”
I mean, American Dad did it as well ( less Facebook, more remote controlled VR decoy robots, but still….)
This feels like a scam by Morosini to be able to kiss Oswalt.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game!?
I’ve come up with worse.
I’d do a a lot to kiss Patton Oswalt. It’s the closest thing you can get to making out with a hobbit.
Gosh, I’d love to see it, but I’m booked solid for the rest of my life.
I wish my dad were still around to catfish me.
Did Adam Sandler drop out of this?
Don’t know why, but this movie speaks to me.
I always had the feeling, consuming media from the US, that this is a country that is very weird on family communication and relationships, and this is pushing my bias quite further. I mean, I am tired of seeing subplots of “Ew, my parents have sex” or “why does my widowed mom go out with another guy without telling ME” and similar that made me think those writers didn’t approach therapy where they needed it the most.
Going by the name and that picture it fooled me into thinking this was going to be a feature length version of Ari Aster’s short film The Strange Thing About the Johnsons.