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Deadbeat Dad

2015 · 85 min

A light, frantic comedy of errors where a simple lie snowballs into absurd chaos, easy to watch and forget.

Directed by
Pedro Amorim
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Danton Mello, Antonio Tabet, Dani Calabresa
Overview
Diogo's 20th high school class reunion is coming up, and although he's married, sees it as an opportunity to hook up with his high school crush who will also be at the reunion. He and his wife have a young son, and everything is lined up so he can go to the reunion alone, hook up with the woman, and go home without his wife suspecting anything. Unfortunately for him, his wife's mother breaks her arm the night of the reunion and can't watch their son. Diogo scrambles to find a babysitter, ultimately settling on a nursery in a strange building. He goes to the party, meets up with the crush, but then has to leave. He and his three friends then go back to the nursery and pick up his son, who is wearing his favorite dog mask. While Diogo and his friends are on their way back to the reunion (he still hasn't hooked up with his former crush) he removes the dog mask and realizes the boy isn't his.

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Directed by
Pedro Amorim
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Danton Mello, Antonio Tabet, Dani Calabresa
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • deception
  • parenthood
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour7
Realism6
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight2

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Genres
comedy
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
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Runtime
85 min
Country
Brazil
Languages
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