7/10
Executed in a Funny Manner
27 December 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I saw "Father Figures", starring Ed Helms-Vacation_2015, Meet Dave; Owen Wilson-Wonder, Midnight in Paris and Glenn Close-Guardians of the Galaxy, The Stepford Wives_2004. This is a basic comedy-nothing groundbreaking-about twin brothers in search of their birth father. Ed plays a bored, divorced proctologist that likes to watch Law & Order:SVU for fun. Owen is his paternal twin that is wealthy from his modeling days-his image was used on some BBQ sauce. Glenn plays their mother, who is getting remarried-after her first husband had died years earlier, when the twins were young. The boys bring up the subject of their birth father and Glenn tells them that the man they thought was their father, is not their birth father after all. She tells them that it was the 1970's and the disco era so she is not exactly sure who it was. She gives them a name of a possible candidate-Terry Bradshaw in a cameo-and the boys go on a road trip which leads to another-J.K. Simmons in a cameo-and another-Christopher Walken in a cameo-and well, there are lots of cameos in the movie. There is a twist ending and all ends well, as a good comedy should. Like I said, nothing groundbreaking here but it is executed in a funny manner. It's rated "R" for language and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour &53 minutes. I enjoyed it and would buy it on DVD.
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