About My Father
Short description
About My Father is a comedy about Sebastian, a Chicago hotel manager living with his American girlfriend, Ellie. When Ellie invites him to spend the Fourth of July weekend at her family's opulent estate, she also suggests he bring along his father, Salvo, an Italian immigrant barber with old-fashioned values. Salvo is the opposite of the wealthy and eccentric Collins family, and the visit turns into a collision of two very different worlds. The trip becomes an occasion for father and son to reckon with what family means to them.
The film was directed by Laura Terruso, following her earlier features Fits and Starts and Work It. It was written by Sebastian Maniscalco and Austen Earl, and produced by Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz and Andrew Miano. Maniscalco plays a version of himself, with Robert De Niro as Salvo, Leslie Bibb as Ellie, and Anders Holm, David Rasche and Brett Dier as members of the Collins family. The production had a budget of about 29 million dollars and took in roughly 18 million dollars worldwide.
Audience reactions were middling: it holds a 5.8 out of 10 on IMDb from around 19,000 votes and a 6 out of 10 on TMDB from about 440 votes. A critics' rating of 5 out of 10, based on 87 reviews, is in line with those viewer scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Salvo, played by Robert De Niro, prepared dishes called “Carciofo e Pavone,” which translates from Italian as “artichoke and peacock.”
- Like the character Sebastian Maniscalco (who was also named Sebastian), the actor's father was a hairdresser in the past, and in his youth (when he was only 15 years old) he came from Italy.
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