{"id":6830,"date":"2010-02-08T14:02:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T22:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=6830"},"modified":"2010-02-08T14:07:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T22:07:58","slug":"fathers-and-guns-emile-gaudreault-2009-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=6830","title":{"rendered":"Fathers and Guns (Emile Gaudreault, 2009): Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed at Metro 4, Santa Barbara International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\"\"De Pere En Flic or Fathers and Guns<\/em><\/a>, is a refreshingly funny film about a father\/son\u00a0undercover\u00a0team in the middle of a sting\u00a0operation.\u00a0 When one of their own is taken hostage, dad Jacques Laroche (Michel Cote) accuses his son Marc (Louis-Jose Houde), a sharpshooter at the range,\u00a0of being spineless and too slow on the draw.\u00a0 After having his best friend taken before his eyes, Marc is\u00a0bumped down to a desk job for his bumbling ways, thanks to his dad’s request.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Charles Berube (Remy Girard), a high-profile defense attorney is having problems of his own.\u00a0 Charles successfully defends a group of motorcycle thugs (who hold the cop hostage), and\u00a0thanks to his neglect,\u00a0his son is suicidal, while\u00a0Charles himself is having problems with his conscience – he talks in his sleep, revealing privileged information.<\/p>\n

In a last ditch effort to salvage his relationship with his son, Charles and his son (Patrick Drolet)\u00a0sign up for a father\/son wilderness retreat, complete with therapist as nature guide.\u00a0 Since Charles’ home is tapped,\u00a0it seems the obvious\u00a0next step\u00a0is to send\u00a0an undercover\u00a0\u00a0father\/son team to the retreat – enter Jacques and Marc, who can’t agree on anything.<\/p>\n

Antics ensue as each\u00a0pair of fathers and sons must participate in every exercise in the program, once it’s mud wrestling, while another is when the group must pick from a basket of dolls, describing how that particular doll represents his father (or son) – Marc chooses an Arabian clothed doll because he believes\u00a0his dad is a member of the Taliban.<\/p>\n

This film made heads turn last summer when it became an instant hit and the\u00a0second highest grossing film\u00a0in Quebec, ever!\u00a0 Sony has bought the rights for a remake, while\u00a0Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall are set to develop and produce it.<\/p>\n

Most notable is the artwork in the title sequence, very clever upbeat and snappy.\u00a0 Small silhouettes animate the plot of the film during the opening credits, grabbing the audience’s attention early on.\u00a0 While this technique\u00a0has been\u00a0used before,\u00a0it is highly\u00a0amusing and worth focusing on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.\u00a0 Viewed at Metro 4, Santa Barbara International Film Festival. De Pere En Flic or Fathers and Guns, is a refreshingly funny film about a father\/son\u00a0undercover\u00a0team in the middle of a sting\u00a0operation.\u00a0 When one of their own is taken hostage, dad Jacques Laroche (Michel Cote) accuses his son Marc (Louis-Jose Houde), a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}