A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.... (Full plot summary below)
Enjoy FREE movies and series with your Prime (USA) subscription or when you start a 30-day free trial!
A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.
Leave your thoughts about I Love My Dad.
| Film ThreatBobby LePireWhile it is not for everyone, those who can stomach the admittedly cringey, well everything about the plot, will find much to love. |
| RogerEbert.comNick AllenI Love My Dad is the kind of story that doesn’t overthink what makes it so laugh-out-loud funny, but there’s a whole lot of ugly, extremely human things going on each time its comedy makes you cover your eyes. |
| SlashfilmEthan AndertonThere's a big beating heart at the center of the movie that keeps you close to the ground and makes it an absolute triumph of twisted humor and love. |
| IGNSiddhant AdlakhaJames Morosini’s shockingly funny I Love My Dad builds on the actor-director’s real-life tale of being catfished by his distant father. The story is told from the point of view of his dad, a character played with hilarious desperation by comedian Patton Oswalt, resulting in a bizarre act of cinematic empathy that’s as moving as it is intense. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayThis is a weird and wonderfully expansive story, adroitly executed by Morosini with the compassion to mine it for humanism rather than droll, oddball quirk. By putting viewers inside the strangeness of what happened to him, he provides the audience the rare privilege of genuinely laughing with his characters instead of at them. |
| ColliderRoss BonaimeI Love You Dad has its heart in the right place with its cringey narrative and story of how much forgiveness those who love us truly deserve. |
| The Film StageJohn FinkI Love My Dad is as funny as it is mortifying, with Oswalt as a kind of sociopathic Cyrano de Bergerac justifying his behavior in the name of becoming closer to his son. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawHowever grotesquely culpable Chuck has been, you find yourself wanting to hug him. It’s a clever comic trick to bring off. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayTogether, Morosini and Oswalt capture the panic that seizes some parents when they see their kids slipping into despair. They sensitively dramatize one father’s fear that everything he does to make things better will permanently ruin everything — though that doesn’t stop him from blundering ahead anyway. |
| TheWrapWilliam BibbianiWhether you laugh with I Love My Dad or never shake the queasy feeling in your stomach, Morosini’s film is remarkably sensitive and eerily confessional. |
