Billy Crystal, Charlie Hofheimer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Jack Lawrence is a successful Los Angeles attorney. He's got a good job, a lovely wife, a nice home, a great car--aside from a limited amount of patience, Jack has pretty much every thing he wants. Da...( read more  read more... )le Putley has been on the brink of despair for so long that he's starting to enjoy the view. A would-be writer scraping out a threadbare existence in San Francisco, Dale is a bundle of neuroses just waiting to unravel. Dale needs something to worry about in his life besides himself. Suddenly, before you can say "romance from the past," Jack Lawrence and Dale Putley, two complete strangers and polar opposites, are sharing a car, pooling their wits, and rethinking everything about themselves as they try to track down a teenage runaway that each believes might be his son.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 38 min.

Directed by: Ivan Reitman

Release Date: May 9, 1997

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  • March 9, 2008
    Jack Lawrence is a smart allec lawyer who is one day visited by an ex-girlfriend who tells him her kid was his. Enter Dale Putley, a depressed goofball who is also a writer, meets with the same ex-girlfriend who tells him her kid is his. One day Jack and Dale meet and discover wh...( read more)at had happened: they've been told the same story and now there's a question of who the real father is. They learn their son is following a rock band called Sugar Ray around. So Jack and Dale hit the road to Sacremento and find their drunk, lovestruck son. Soon after they bring him back to their hotel room, their son escapes and Jack and Dale must use teamwork to find him again, bring him home, and find out which one of them is the real father.
  • January 6, 2007
    Crystal and Williams try to out mug each other in a desperately unfunny schmaltz fest.
  • September 15, 2006
    Actually painful to watch. Two talented people (three, if you count Reitman) making complete asses out of themselves. Ishtar comes to mind (expect that was slightly better...)
  • February 27, 2009
    One of those silly outrageous movies that is just funny so we don't care.
  • July 28, 2007
    Predictable, unimportant, and unnecessary movie. (Although I do like both of these actors a lot in other films!)
  • August 29, 2009
    A movie that brings you a lot of laughs and a great story & 2 awesome actors.!
  • August 25, 2009
    how can you go wrong with billy crystal and robyn williams?
  • July 2, 2009
    two dads trying too hard to get the attention of 1 son
  • June 29, 2009
    Disappointing considering all of the talent but it was not all that funny.
  • June 25, 2009
    does my memory deceive me...or was sugar ray in this movie...?

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