Fathers' Day

Two of the screen's most popular comic actors meet in this movie about two men brought together by unexpected circumstances. On the surface, Jack Lawrence (Billy Crystal) and Dale Putley (Robin Williams) wouldn't appear to have much in common. Jack is an efficient, serious-minded lawyer with a ...more

With Billy Crystal and Robin Williams starring, Ivan Reitman directing, Joel Silver producing, and frequent Crystal collaborators Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel penning the script, it's difficult to figure out why critics hated Fathers' Day so much. Its worst sin is one of conventionality, and it's not even as blatant a practitioner as a dozen other superstar-driven comedies that have been a lot better received. But Fathers' Day was on the business end of such lambasting and it became something ...more