Like Father
Published August 3, 2018
Film info
- Title Like Father
- Director Lauren Miller Rogen
- Year 2018
- Run time 1hr 36m
- Genres Comedy, Drama
- Tagline There are some journeys you can't take alone
After she's left at the altar, a workaholic advertising executive ends up on her Caribbean honeymoon cruise with her estranged father.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 1:05 | Well she’s awesome. Work calls on your wedding day. |
| 4:32 | Phone in the bouquet. I hope she doesn’t have to throw it later. |
| 9:17 | “I’m sorry about yesterday, that was very dramatic.” |
| 13:11 | That’s an epic apartment. The window! |
| 17:03 | I want Kelsey Grammer to be my dad, he’s awesome. |
| 19:24 | “If they wanted you to fold it, they would serve it that way.” |
| 22:59 | It seemed to make sense at the time is the call of the hungover person. |
| 26:20 | He’s reading the cruise newsletter thing, I loved the daily newsletter things! |
| 28:36 | “Boat movies on a boat.” |
| 37:52 | I’m loving all these characters. |
| 45:01 | Momentarily surprised by I Want It That Way until remembering the Seth Roger influence. He’s a bigger fan than all of us. |
| 48:04 | Worst therapist ever. :“You f***ed everything up. It’s all your fault. What are you gonna do?” |
| 54:49 | Peer pressure, jeez. |
| 1:04:08 | Fleetwood Mac choooonage! |
| 1:07:53 | The surf thing looks epic fun. |
| 1:10:03 | ROBOT BAR!!!!! |
| 1:19:22 | Karaoke montage is the best. |
| 1:25:59 | Matt Le Blanc has totally ruined ash scattering scenes for me. |
| 1:33:55 | “You need to be near the potatoes to sell the potatoes.” |
Conclusions
So, so good. I hadn’t even heard of this film but Mr C was like ‘someone tweeted about this Netflix film being really good’ so we watched it. Amazingly, we then saw some of the promotional things going on around the movie and it was a lot of fun to actually be ahead of the curve rather than six months behind.
And the film, it was perfect. A proper feel-good dramedy, with a wonderful cast (Kelsey really shone in this one) and a great story. It had twists and turns aplenty, but nothing so traumatic that it cast a shadow over the rest. It was tearful but uplifting at the same time, and for me, personally, it brought back both good and bad memories of time on a cruise ship.
Highly recommended. Rating: 5/5.
Rating: 5 / 5