Cheap Father of the Bride (15th Anniversary Edition) (DVD) (Charles Shyer) Price

This '90s update of the Spencer Tracy-Elizabeth Taylor hit is a mix of the pleasant and the silly, a nice enough movie but a little too controlled to become particularly interesting. Steve Martin plays the aging patriarch who is threatened by his daughter's engagement and not-quite-willing to let her go. The writing-directing team of Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers provides Martin's character with a perhaps too-broad range of comic responsiveness to the situation, some of it gentle (a ritual game of basketball between dad and his little girl) and some of it slapstick (Martin sneaking around his prospective in-laws' house and encountering a guard dog). Martin Short turns up as a wedding coordinator--which has deliriously delicious possibilities--but his inventiveness doesn't quite strike the chord this time. --Tom Keogh

CATEGORY:	DVD
DIRECTOR:	Charles Shyer
THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE:	20 December, 1991
MANUFACTURER:	Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
MPAA RATING:	PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
FEATURES:	Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, NTSC
TYPE:	Bright, Color, Comedies, Comedy, Comedy Video, Domestic Comedy, Easygoing, English, Fanciful, Fathers and Daughters, Feature, Feature Film Comedy, Feature Film-comedy, Goofy, Humorous, Light, Movie, Profanity, Sentimental, Springlike
MEDIA:	DVD
MPN:	D39735D
# OF MEDIA:	1
UPC:	786936278798