2015 · comedy
Daddy's Home
Directed by Sean Anders1h 36m2015
The story of a mild-mannered radio executive who strives to become the best stepdad ever to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling, freeloading real father arrives, forcing stepdad to compete for the affection of the kids.
Our read: Daddy's Home (2015) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- tender
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“You want goofy stepdad-versus-dad rivalry with Ferrell and Wahlberg energy.”
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