Dad for a Day (2009 film)
Dad for a Day is a 2009 Argentine film starring Nicolás Cabré, Luisana Lopilato and Gimena Accardi. It was premiered on 6 August 2009,[1] and was also screened at the Mar del Plata Film Festival on 14 November 2009, not as the part of the competition.[2]
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| Directed by | Raúl Rodríguez Peila |
| Produced by | Carlos Luis Mentasti Pablo Bossi |
| Written by | Jorge Maestro Fernanda Ramondo Raúl Rodríguez Peila |
| Starring | Nicolás Cabré Gimena Accardi Luisana Lopilato |
| Music by | Claudio Waisgluss |
| Cinematography | Rodrigo Pulpeiro |
| Distributed by | INCAA Telefe Pampa Films Royal Cinema Group Runa Films |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Box office | $1.866.255 million |
Plot
Federico Villaverde (Nicolás Cabré) is the coach of the women's hockey team of a very high-level club. He is about to marry Cecilia Ayerza (Gimena Accardi) one of his players who is the daughter of Luciano Ayerza (Boy Olmi) the president of the club when his father, about to die, whom he had not seen for ten years before, asks him to take care of Tini Villaverde (Julieta Poggio) his 8-year-old sister, whom he doesn't know. In that situation he meets Julieta Miriotti (Luisana Lopilato) the captain of the hockey team his father coached and that affects his feelings.
Cast
- Nicolás Cabré as Federico Villaverde
- Luisana Lopilato as Julieta Miriotti
- Gimena Accardi as Cecilia Ayerza
- Gustavo Garzón as Eliseo Villaverde
- Gogó Andreu as Lorenzo
- Inés Palombo as Teresa
- Patricia Sosa as Beba
- Nicolás Vázquez as Taxi driver
- Julieta Poggio as Tini Villaverde
- Boy Olmi as Luciano Ayerza
- Miguel Ángel Rodríguez as Tito Miriotti
- Joaquín Berthold as Mariano Alerce
- Daniel Dessal as Gonzalo de la Oz
- Mónica Gonzaga as María Inés
- Roberto Dolade as Doctor
- Carlos Kaspar
- Bárbara Diez
Reception
Critical response
The newspaper La Nación described the film as "Good", noting that "The plot achieves what it set out to do: entertain with successful gags and funny dialogue and situations."
While the film critic Ezequiel Boetti in EscribiendoCine rated it with a score of 4 out of 10, stating that Dad for a day is "It is a filmic concoction that includes from sports competitions to the worst common places of Argentine cinema.", "a concatenation ad infinitum of the worst vices of national cinema." and negatively highlighted "the thick fibrón with which the scriptwriters wrote the female members of the leading trio".
Also 4 out of 10 was the assessment of Diego Battle in OtrosCines, who pointed out that "the script is by Jorge Maestro and the result is quite disappointing, inferior-to continue with its author- than strips like Pelito. The Golden Rocket Band or Roller Coaster. In this very loose film stereotypes, platitudes, simplifications, superficialities and clichés abound. The plot is uninspired, there is not much grace, neither emotion, nor sensitivity, neither human flesh nor audacity."
For its part, the newspaper Clarín described it as "Regular".
Box office
The film reached 480,568 viewers, reaching 20th place in the 2009 Argentine box office ranking. Dad for a Day grossed a total of $1.866.255 million.
References
External links
- Official website (in Spanish)
- Dad for a Day at IMDb