Starring Gerard Depardieu, Katherine Heigl, Dalton
James, Lauren Hutton and Faith Prince, My Father the Hero is a romantic
comedy directed by Steve Miner. Released in 1993, the movie is the
English remake of the French film called 'Mon père, ce héros'
(1991) and depicts the tribulations of a father, when he accompanies his
teenage daughter to a tropical island. Read the complete story of My
Father the Hero here.
Nicole is a 14-year-old New York girl (Katherine Heigl), who goes for a
vacation to the Bahamas with her French father Andre (Gerard Depardieu),
a divorcee from an ex-American wife. What turns this vacationing trip of
father-daughter into a topsy-turvy ride is Nicole's idea to appear as a
woman and not a teenage girl. In order to impress a local boy called Ben
(Dalton James), working at the hotel, she starts cooking up absurd
stories, which begin with her father being her boyfriend.
The loving father, in order to make his daughter happy, agrees to feign
as her boyfriend. This bizarre game leads to a string of ridiculous
stories, one after another. The funny strategy eventually takes a bad
shape, when all the guests snub the father and starts avoiding him. They
assume Nichole to be an underage concubine, living with this aged
pedophilic man, old enough to be her father. Now, it is up to her
whether she tells Ben the truth or let things get from bad to worse.
