Meeting Daddy

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Meeting Daddy
Directed by Peter Gould
Written byPeter Gould
Starring Lloyd Bridges
Josh Charles
Alexandra Wentworth
Walter Olkewicz
Kristy Swanson
Beau Bridges
Production
companies
CineTel Films
Mas Macho Inc.
Distributed by Paramount Home Video
Release date
  • 27 June 2000 (2000-06-27)(location)
Running time
90 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Meeting Daddy is a 2000 film written and directed by Peter Gould. It is notably the last of actor Lloyd Bridges' 160 films, and was posthumously released. [1]

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Plot

The plot involves a struggling New York-based screenwriter travelling to Savannah, Georgia to meet his girlfriend's eccentric family. It also explores themes of aging. [2]

Cast

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References

  1. Coming of Age in Films, By Mario Garrett · 2019
  2. Fade to Gray - Aging in American Cinema, Timothy Shary, Nancy McVittie · 2016