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Dee Dee Rutherford (Lisa Ann Walter-The Parent Trap, Bruce Almighty) has never been able to figure out what her father, Bill (Kurtwood Smith-That 70's Show, Dead Poet's Society), wants from her. Like oil and water they've lived essentially separate lives for the past 15 years-Bill running his Fortune 500 company from the city and Dee Dee on the dole, chasing an endless series of outlandish adventures from his summer home. Now, on the eve of his retirement, Bill finds he's got one piece of unfinished business: to finally make an upstanding woman of his brash, neglected, and undisciplined daughter. But in laying down the law, he learns Dee Dee's capable of a lot more than he ever knew and soon finds his tactics are punishing him more than her. As Dee Dee struggles to placate her father she's confronted by the reality that she 'doesn't know how to be anybody else' but her complicated, unrefined, unsinkable, adventure-seeking self. In the end, each drives the other to the same surprising discovery of what it is Bill really wants. Walter and Smith turn in award-winning performances supported by Mason Gamble and J. P. Manoux as reluctant 'sidekicks for a force of nature (Variety)'.
迪·迪·盧瑟福(《麗薩·安·沃爾特——父母陷阱》,布魯斯·全能)一直搞不清楚她的父親比爾(《柯特伍德·史密斯——70年代的節目,死亡詩人協會》)想要她做什麼。就像石油和水一樣,他們在過去的15年裡基本上過著不同的生活——比爾在城市經營著他的財富500強公司,迪·迪靠失業救濟金生活,在他的避暑別墅里追逐著一系列無窮無盡的古怪冒險。現在,在他退休的前夕,比爾發現他還有一件未完成的事情:最終讓他傲慢、被忽視、不守紀律的女兒成為一個正直的女人。但是在制定法律的過程中,他了解到迪·迪的能力比他所知道的要大得多,並且很快發現他的策略對他的懲罰比她更多。當迪迪努力安撫她的父親時,她面臨著這樣一個現實,她“不知道如何成為其他任何人”,但她是複雜的、未加工的、不沉的、尋求冒險的自我。最終,雙方都促使對方有了同樣驚人的發現,即比爾真正想要的是什麼。沃爾特和史密斯在梅森·甘布和J. P .馬諾克斯的支持下,作為不情願的“自然力量(變化)的夥伴”進行了獲獎表演。