Who's Your Daddy? (2003/I) (V)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Andy Fickman

Writers (WGA):

Maria Veltre Druse (story) &
Jack Sekowski (story) ...

Release Date:

18 January 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Schoolboy is playboy.

Plot:

An adopted Ohio high school senior discovers he is the inherited heir to a porn empire. Dropped into a bitter power struggle, his new flock of beautiful co-workers come to his aid. |

Plot Keywords:

High School | Heir | Bare Butt | Overweight | Male Bonding

Cast

William Atherton	...	Uncle Duncan 'Duncay' Mack
Colleen Camp	...	Beverly Hughes
Brandon Davis	...	Chris Hughes
Kadeem Hardison	...	Brookes
Christine Lakin	...	Kate Reeves
Ali Landry	...	Elissa
Marnette Patterson	...	Brittany Van Horn
Robert Ri'chard	...	Murphy
Lin Shaye	...	Ms. Harding
Charlie Talbert	...	Adam Torey
Josh Jacobson	...	Bobby
Dave Thomas	...	Carl Hughes
Justin Berfield	...	Danny Hughes
Robert Torti	...	Michael Hunt
Ryan Bittle	...	Hudson Reed

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexual content, crude humor and language.

Runtime:

105 min | USA:111 min (unrated version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:Unrated (unrated DVD version) | Spain:18 | Iceland:14 (original rating) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Finland:K-11 | Netherlands:12 (TV rating) | Netherlands:16 (DVD rating) | Australia:MA | Norway:15 | Singapore:R21 | Sweden:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Grant High School - 13000 Oxnard Street, Valley Glen, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Middle Fork Productions

Trivia:

At the beginning of the movie the math teacher can be heard mumbling 8675309 a reference to a popular 1980s pop song.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the beginning of the movie as the main character arrives to school on his scooter, there's a sign pointing to the Elementary school & High School. The word ELEMENTARY is Missing the Letter "N". It just says ELEMETARY.

Quotes:

Chris Hughes: I'm a lover, not a calculator.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Robert De Niro/Destiny's Child (#30.8)" (2004)

Funny... But Could Have Been A Lot Funnier

Brandon Davis stars as Chris Hughes (or Chris Mack), a nerdy high school loser whose only wish is to know what it is like to be popular. Soon, a lawyer name Michael Hunt (yeah, Mike Hunt) shows up on his doorstep and tells him his real parents have been killed in an accident and that he should be at the reading of their will. It turns out that his parents are Peter and Honey Mack, the publishers of a very successful adult magazine named Heaven, complete with "Angels" as centerfolds. Of course, the antagonist is trying to get the company for himself and will stop at any means to get it, in this case, his Uncle Duncan.

This movie started out with some gross out humor, similar to what you would find in American Pie, but less funny, and ended up being more like The Girl Next Door. The main problem here is that it tried to hard to be funny. It was reasonably funny but most of the movie could have been polished up and Brandon Davis was too over the top as a geek. Ali Landry played a great centerfold (as she probably would be) and Wayne Newton played a great, but short, role as an adult magazine CEO. His magazine, Heaven, is supposed to be Playboy, or like it. Painfully obvious with the smoking jackets, mansions, etc.

Bottom line is, this movie is not one of the great comedies, but you could do much worse than this. If you are watching this because you are expecting nudity or a lot of sex, you will be disappointed. I can give about 6.5 stars out of 10.