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I Love My Dad
Directed by
James Morosini
R
2022
1h 35m
Comedy
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Romance
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6.3
75%
83%
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A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.
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Cast of I Love My Dad
Patton Oswalt
Chuck / Producer
James Morosini
Franklin / Director / Writer
Claudia Sulewski
Becca
Rachel Dratch
Erica
Lil Rel Howery
Jimmy
Amy Landecker
Diane
Ricky Velez
Derek
Sam Slater
Producer
Daniel Brandt
Producer
Phil Keefe
Producer
Bill Stertz
Producer
Sean King O'Grady
Producer
Dane Eckerle
Producer
I Love My Dad Ratings & Reviews
Kevin Ward
July 7, 2025
I Love My Dad is hysterically funny and, simultaneously, cringey as hell. I mean that in the best possible way. Patton Oswald stars as Chuck semi-estranged father of Franklin (James Morosini), a socially awkward young adult with suicidal tendencies. When Franklin blocks his dad’s phone number and removes him from all social media, Chuck resorts to creating a new fake profile so that he can maintain visibility into his son’s life. But when Franklin reaches out to this “person” the relationship leads down an unexpected path. I saw this at the North Bend Film Festival and it was introduced as “Catfishing with a tinge of Incest”. An apt description after having seen it. Tried to get my 14 y/o socially awkward son to come watch this with me and for the sake of our relationship, we’re both glad he decided not to come. This film is so seriously funny, but it also knows enough to lean into the heart when it needs to. It plays out mostly as you would expect—someone’s going to let the catfish out of the bag. Like watching a train wreck, you just can’t turn away. (Except I definitely had to turn away at some points). Patton Oswald is excellent. Morosini, who also wrote and directed here based it on a true story of him and his own father, which only adds a level of cringe to everything. I also want to mention, Rachel Dratch. I thought she was so funny here as Chuck’s girlfriend. She has some really great scenes in a supporting role. I may be a bit dad biased, but I highly recommend checking it out.
Los Angeles Times
Noel Murray
It's exciting to see Morosini take so many chances with the way his narrative unfolds, even if they don't all pay off.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Patton Oswalt plays the estranged father posing online as a young woman in the off-putting would-be comedy...
FilmWeek (LAist)
Peter Rainer
I think the operative word here is "cringe."
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
It's really funny, sweet, and goes to some places.
Digital Trends
A.A. Dowd
[Patton] Oswalt, in maybe his best big-screen performance since Big Fan, offers a layered depiction of fatherly love madly misdirected into a train-wreck grift.
Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)
Ty Burr
For all the oh-no-they-didn't/oh-god-they-did comedy, the movie's rooted in real pain and a genuine understanding of parent-child dynamics.
RogerEbert.com
Nick Allen
I Love My Dad is the kind of story that doesn't overthink what makes it so laugh-out-loud funny, but there's a whole lot of ugly, extremely human things going on each time its comedy makes you cover your eyes.
TheWrap
William Bibbiani
Whether you laugh with "I Love My Dad" or never shake the queasy feeling in your stomach, Morosini's film is remarkably sensitive and eerily confessional.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
The dark situation produces uneasy laughs, and is noteworthy for Oswalt's committed performance and Morosini's unconventional storyline.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Morosini isn't out to settle scores with "I Love My Dad"... he's interested in something bigger, having to do with self-deception, the limits of love and the peculiar individual hells we manage to reach by way of our best intentions.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
Emotionally, the movie is a mess. It can be even messier tonally.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
Since the audience is in on the scheme from the start, what we get is excruciating, uncut. But not too excruciating, because Franklin is such a drab cipher it's hard to work up much empathy for him.
AV Club
Mark Keizer
If we're ultimately not sure what greater point Morosini is trying to make, that's okay. Consider ourselves honored, if slightly uncomfortable, guests at Morosini's breakthrough therapy session.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
For both better and worse, I Love My Dad feels less like a film than an exorcism.
Fox 10 Phoenix
Allison Shoemaker
Its hard to dismiss the sense that Morosini would have been better off picking one or two of the three massive responsibilities hes shouldering here as writer, actor and director.
The Playlist
Jason Bailey
I Love My Dad may find an audience, or at least a handful of admirers, for the possibilities it hints at, and its willingness to tell an off-putting story. Its the kind of movie that gets praised for being risky, but not for actually being any good.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
I Love My Dad finds the humor in the situation, mostly due to terrific performances...
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
Oswalt undeniably gives his all to it, but one wishes a different director had been hired to break this screenplay out and find its full potential.
Variety
Peter Debruge
James Morosini takes an embarrassing thing that happened to him and turns it into a squirm-inducing (albeit surprisingly accepting) father-son comedy.
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