By this time, Nicole has also convinced Ben that Andre is an Feeling guilty for not having been around during much of Nicole's childhood, he agrees to go along with her charade. He is shocked and upset, but empathizes with his daughter's desire to land a boyfriend. He cannot fathom why he is getting the cold shoulder, nor why his rousing rendition of "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" clears the room on amateur night. The story spreads and the other resort guests treat Andre with contempt and disgust, thinking him a child molester. Lover, but he pretends to be her father to avoid legal entanglements.
Wanting to impress him, she claims she is 16. Then she meets Ben (Dalton James), a handsome young resort employee. From their arrival at the resort, Nicole seems intent on having a bad time. Growing up fast and is resentful at being treated like Daddy's little girl. When he arrives at the home of his ex-wife (Lauren Hutton) to pick up his daughter Nicole (Katherine Heigl), he is surprised to find that she has changed since their last visit. Sidestepping potentiallyĭisturbing incest and child molestation angles, this comedy is both harmless and charmless.ĭepardieu, who reprises his role from the 1991 French film MON PERE, CE HEROS, plays Andre, the errant Dad.
To read authors such as James Baldwin, Annie Dillard, Doris Lessing, Sharon Olds, and Philip Roth as they explore aspects of their fathers is to open maps of possibility.In his third English-language film, French superstar Gerard Depardieu (GREEN CARD, 1492: CONQUEST OF PARADISE) plays a divorced man who takes his rebellious 14-year-old daughter on a vacation to the Caribbean, where she pretends he is her lover, not her father. Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje and Virginia Woolf, the anthology is full of wit, wisdom and insight. With personal essays and poems by 5 Nobel laureates, 7 Pulitzer winners, and writers such as Angela Carter, Thomas Hardy, Franz Kafka. Fathers: A Literary Anthology is a collection of 49 essays and poems focusing on fathers.
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