That's My Boy

The story of a child... and his son.

Adam Sandler's latest had a poor reception from the critics. As a raucous teen comedy, the plotline exists merely to hang outrageous scenes on. While still in his teens, a young man had fathered a son, and raised him as a single parent up until his 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for years, the son's world comes crashing down on the eve of his wedding when his dad shows up uninvited. Trying desperately to reconnect with his son, the father is now forced to deal with the repercussions of his bad parenting skills.

110 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Nudity, Prejudice).
Comedy.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

Like father, like son... and then some.

Credits

Cast	Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Leighton Meester, Vanilla Ice, James Caan, Milo Ventimiglia, Blake Clark
Director	Sean Anders
Screenplay	David Caspe
Music	Rupert Gregson-Williams
Cinematography	Brandon Trost
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, Datasat
Made in	2012
Produced by	Columbia Pictures, Happy Madison Productions

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Comedy
Language	Strong, continuous, sexual
Nudity	Breast: frequent; rear female, male rear
Sex	Frequent sexual activity and scenarios
Violence	Comid, mild to humorously moderate
Prejudice	Homophobic stereotypical comments
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Some alcohol abuse
Comments	None
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Times Justin Lowe Delivers the outrageous situations, non-top raunchiness and juvenile humour that Sandler fans seek.	5
Box Office Mark Olsen As simple and direct as vanilla ice cream or a can of American beer, the film marks something of a return to form for Adam Sandler, king of dumb fun. Like a sleeping giant, there is always hope the true Sandman may awaken.	5
ScreenIt T. Durgin If your threshold for smut is high and you stick with this flick, I think it has its rewards. I can't give it a blanket recommend because...well, you just don't want to take a blue light to that blanket and see what's on it after two hours of Sandler smut. But it's a comedy. I laughed. It's a simple as that.	11
Metacritic.com 25 critics	6
Rottentomatoes critics 95 critics	7
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer While it does represent a new foray into raunch for the normally PG-13 Sandler, That's My Boy finds him repeating himself to diminishing effect - and dragging Andy Samberg down with him.	4
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	7
Movie Review Intelligence 39 critics	7
What the People say
Internet 5810 Netizens Don't see this mess, I certainly wouldn't say comedy gold	10
Average .. 34%	7