Stars: Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nastassja Kinski, Charlie Hofheimer

Director: Ivan Reitman

Summary: Two childless men find themselves united in a search for a missing teenager.

Desperate to track down her wayward teenage son, a woman contacts a pair of old flames and tells each that he's the boy's father, setting in motion a forced-buddy, on-the-road romp. Billy Crystal and Robin Williams shared the screen for the first time in this remake of the 1984 French farce "Les Comperes."

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Billy Crystal plays the straight man to neurotic Robin Williams when these two very different individuals join forces to find a runaway teenager. Both, you see, have been told they are the boy's father by Nastassja Kinski, with whom each had once been involved. This Disney production is based on the more humorous French farce, Les Compères, by Francis Veber (who cowrote this adaptation). It has its moments as breezy entertainment, but the plot is sloppy enough to seem more like slapstick than sophisticated comedy. The gags are contrived, and it fails to unfold with believability, or grace. More interesting than the writing are the performances, as Crystal brings surprising depth to his cynical lawyer and Williams is exceptionally fine-tuned as a suicidal and dippy writer with a very kind heart. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com--This text refers to the VHS edition of this video

Aspect Ratio:	Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive Menus, Production Notes, Scene Access
Subtitles:	Arabic, English
Year:	1997
Release Date:	September 25, 1998
Runtime:	95 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D 015386
Keywords:	Day, Comedy, General, Father's, Fathers'
Genre:	Comedy