Daddy (2015 comedy-drama film)

Daddy
Directed by Gerald McCullouch
Written by Dan Via
Starring
Release dates
  • August 30, 2015 (2015-08-30) (Montréal World Film Festival)
Running time
 89 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Daddy is an American comedy-drama film, slated for release in 2015.[1] The directorial debut of Gerald McCullouch, the film is based on the play by Dan Via.

The film stars McCullouch and Via as Colin McCormack and Stewart Wisniewski, two gay men in their late 40s. Longtime friends whose relationship has taken on many of the emotional undercurrents and routines of a non-sexual marriage,[2] their bond is tested when Colin begins dating a younger man (Jaime Cepero).

The film's cast also includes Brooke Anne Smith, Jay Jackson, Tamlyn Tomita, Scott Henry, John Rubinstein, Mackenzie Astin, Richard Riehle and Leslie Easterbrook.

Background

McCullouch and Via starred in the original stage production of Daddy, which was staged in New York City[3] and Los Angeles[4] in 2010. The film adaptation was funded in part by a Kickstarter campaign in 2013.[5]

According to Via, the play and film were inspired by the "daddy" phenomenon in the gay dating scene, as well as a desire to explore the effects of the contemporary normalization of same-sex marriage on older gay men who had been raised to believe that marriage and family were not available to them, and who thus built their own alternative models of family and social connection.[6]

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