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Dad for a Day (2009 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Pap por un da' (Spanish: 'Dad for a Day') is a 2009 Argentine sports romantic comedy film starring Nicols Cabr, Luisana Lopilato and Gimena Accardi. It was premiered on 6 August 2009,[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1445712/releaseinfo Release Info for 'Pap por un da'] at the Internet Movie Database and was also screened at the Mar del Plata Film Festival on 14 November 2009, not as the part of the competition.Mar del Plata Film Festival: '[http://www.mardelplatafilmfest.com/24/programacion/ficha.php?p=313&pelicula=Pap_por_un_da&director=Ral_Rodrguez_Peila Pap por un da]'
Plot
Federico Villaverde (Nicols Cabr) is the coach of the female hockey team of a very high-level club. He is engaged to Cecilia (Gimena Accardi), one of the players and the daughter of Luciano Ayerza (Boy Olmi), the owner of the club; when his dying father (Gustavo Garzn), whom he had not seen in ten years, asks him to take care of Tini (Julieta Poggio) his 8-year-old sister, whom he has never met before, things get upside down for him as he tries to adjust this new life. Amidst this situation he meets Julieta (Luisana Lopilato), the captain of the hockey team his father used to coach, and unexpected feelings arise.
Cast
* Nicols Cabr as Federico Villaverde
* Luisana Lopilato as Julieta Miriotti
* Gimena Accardi as Cecilia Ayerza
* Gustavo Garzn as Eliseo Villaverde
* Gog Andreu as Lorenzo
* Ins Palombo as Teresa
* Patricia Sosa as Beba
* Nicols Vzquez as Taxi driver
* Julieta Poggio as Martina "Tini" Villaverde
* Boy Olmi as Luciano Ayerza
* Miguel ngel Rodrguez as Tito Miriotti
* Joaqun Berthold as Mariano Alerce
* Martn Borisenko as Gonzalo de la Oz
* Mnica Gonzaga as Mara Ins
* Roberto Dolade as Doctor
* Carlos Kaspar as Kit manager
* Brbara Diez as Wedding planner
Reception
Critical response
The newspaper 'La Nacin' described the film as "Good", noting that "The plot achieves what it set out to do: to entertain with successful gags, funny dialogues and situations."While the film critic Ezequiel Boetti from 'Escribiendo Cine' rated it with a score of 4 out of 10, describing it as "a cinematic concoction that includes from sports competitions to the worst clichs in Argentine films.", "an 'ad infinitum' concatenation of the worst things in local filmmaking." and negatively highlighted "the thick writing with which the scriptwriters portrayed the two female leads".
Also 4 out of 10 was the rating of Diego Battle from 'Otros Cines', who pointed out that "the script by Jorge Maestro is quite disappointing, inferior than -to name a few other works by its author- products like 'Pelito', 'La Banda del Golden Rocket' or 'Montaa Rusa'. In this very weak film stereotypes, caricatures, simplifications, superficial things and clichs abound. The plot is uninspired, there is not much grace, neither emotion, nor sensitivity, neither humanity nor audacity."
For its part, the newspaper 'Clarn' described it as "Average".
Box office
The film reached 480,568 viewers, reaching 20th place in the 2009 Argentine box office ranking. 'Dad for a Day' grossed a total of $1.866.255 million.References
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