2016 · comedy
Why Him?
Directed by John Hamburg1h 51m2016
A dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend.
Our read: Why Him? (2016) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- gentle
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