"About My Father" - Robert DeNiro, Sebastian Maniscalco

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I don't know much about Sebastian Maniscalco. But this movie ain't getting good reviews.

‘About My Father’ Review: Sebastian Maniscalco & Robert De Niro Team In Unfunny Generational Comedy

If Sebastian Maniscalco really is the most popular comic in the country at the moment, you’d never know why from his film debut in About My Father. So unfunny it’s embarrassing, this is an over-the-top, under-achieving generational comedy that feels like it was written in the mid- to late-1960s and has been moldering in a drawer ever since.

At 79 the oldest person in the cast, Robert de Niro has the most energy of anyone in the cast and employs all the tricks he could think of to help the cause. Still, this mostly plays like a ragged hand-me-down being performed at top volume, as if the dialogue was going to be competing with a laugh track.