Magnolia Pictures Buys Patton Oswalt Catfishing Comedy ‘I Love My Dad’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaMagnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to “I Love My Dad,” one of the biggest breakouts from this year’s SXSW.Critics loved “I Love My Dad” reserving particular praise for the direction of James Morosini and for Patton Oswalt’s lead performance.
The movie, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Narrative Feature as well as the Narrative Feature Competition Audience Award at the festival, certainly gets points for originality.
It follows a young man (Morosini) who is catfished by his hopelessly estranged father (Oswalt) in a desperate attempt to reconnect.
Blocked on social media and concerned for his son’s life, Oswalt’s character impersonates a waitress online and starts checking in with his son.
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