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Is About My Father based on a true story? ›

Although much of the plot to the comedy film that Maniscalco both stars in and cowrote is fictional, what is hit-the-nail-on-the-head true is his relationship with his father, played in the movie by screen legend Robert De Niro.

A man's fiancée encourages him and his father to spend the weekend with her wealthy and exceedingly eccentric family. The gathering soon develops into a cultural clash, allowing father and son to discover the true meaning of family.

About My Father / Film synopsis

Principal photography began on September 21, 2021, in Mobile, Alabama, and lasted for one month.

The budget was $29 million and it grossed $18.2 million at the box office.

Firstly, it gives us an accurate, painfully accurate, depiction of the condition. However, at the same time, it makes us realise that even when people around the person with dementia are at the absolute limits of their ability to cope with the situation, the greatest tragedy is when the sufferer has moments of clarity.

Netflix's Our Father Tells The True Story of a Fertility Doctor Who Used His Own Sperm on Patients. During the 1970s and '80s, a fertility specialist in Indiana named Dr. Donald Cline inseminated dozens of patients with his own sperm, without their knowledge or consent.

Truth is, De Niro himself boasts only one-quarter Italian ancestry: His father, the abstract expressionist painter Robert De Niro Sr., was half Irish, and his mother, painter and poet Virginia Holton Admiral, boasted Dutch, English, French and German ancestry.

The best thing by far is De Niro and his zinger of a screwball-comedy performance. Fresh score. Just like how it happens here, even Hollywood doesn't mind revisiting mundane tropes only to have some fun. The film may not be original and refreshing, but Robert De Niro is as he calls himself in the film.

Sebastian apologizes to his father, and they return to the party where Sebastian proposes to Ellie during a live show. She accepts, and everyone cheers. Salvo later joins the family for the Christmas card shoot.

About My Father (2023) - Leslie Bibb as Ellie - IMDb.

Why is About My Father rated PG-13? ›

Watching Experience: Quality(opinionated): (My rating) Rated PG-13 For language including a rude gesture, smoking, some sexual references and some nudity.

ABOUT MY FATHER is directed by Laura Terruso and written by Austen Earl & Sebastian Maniscalco.

The film is pseudo-biographical, following Sebastian's courtship with a WASP-y artist (Leslie Bibb) and her intimidating politician mother (Kim Cattrall). He and De Niro are invited for a country club family weekend, and the cultural differences pour out faster than Tom Collins mix.

A man's fiancée encourages him and his father to spend the weekend with her wealthy and exceedingly eccentric family. The gathering soon develops into a cultural clash, allowing father and son to discover the true meaning of family.

About My Father / Film synopsis

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Robert De Niro / Upcoming movie

Although some scenes in the upcoming documentary could be fictional or dramatized, the plot is true. Cline opened a fertility clinic in Indiana in 1979 and secretly used his own sperm to impregnate women who visited him for artificial insemination, claiming the donations were from medical residents.

There is no actual plot in Grace Paley's brief, metafictional “A Conversation with My Father”—the speaker is writing a short story, and her father doesn't care for it at all—and yet it manages to be about the most important things in the world.

It is based on the true story of the Guildford Four, four people falsely convicted of the 1974 Guildford pub bombings that killed four off-duty British soldiers and a civilian.

It tells the true story of Day and his family in the 1880s. His father, Clarence Sr., wants to be master of his house, but finds his wife, Vinnie, and his children ignoring him until they start making demands for him to change his life.