Just like Dad
by Blair Treu, 1995
with Wallace Shawn, Ben Diskin and Nick Cassavetes
12 year old Charlie Spiegle (Ben Diskin) has a problem.
He’s the new kid in school and an easy target for
bullies. How can he possibly become popular? If he could
only win the school’s father/son competition. But
Charlie’s father, Stan Spiegle (Wallace Shawn The
Princess Bride) is a bigger nerd that his son!
What can Charlie do? Buy a new dad. Joe (Nick Cassavetes)
is the perfect candidate; handsome, strong, with an
exciting career. But when Joe’s troublesome past with
the mob comes back, Charlie is kidnapped by Joe’s
former boss. Now “old dad” and “new
dad” must work together to save “their”
son. It will take more than brawn or brains to save him. It
will take a Superdad!
Laura Innes plays Rose.
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