‘I Love My Dad’ Review: Patton Oswalt Plays a Serial Liar Who Catfishes His Own Son
variety.comPeter Debruge Chief Film CriticWhile putting his life back together following a suicide attempt, an unstable young man named Franklin (James Morosini) meets a girl online who starts to make him feel better.
Her name is Becca, she’s way prettier than he thinks he deserves, and she seems really interested in him. How or why this person chose Franklin, out of all the incels on Facebook, doesn’t amount to a hill of beans.
Life seems to be looking up, and yet Franklin’s right to be skeptical. Because he is being catfished. By his father.Writer-director-star Morosini’s funny, cringy, all-too-credible dramedy “I Love You Dad” really happened. “My dad asked me to tell you it didn’t,” claims an onscreen chyron at the outset, but it’s too good a story to pass up.
And no matter how upset Morosini must have been to discover the deception at the time, his dad gave the budding indie filmmaker (“Threesomething”) the gift of a lifetime: great material.
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