Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: Ben Stiller meets Robert De Niro.
At the dawn of the 2000s, as he approached his sixties and his filmography included an impressive number of cinema classics (including several gangster films, of which he had made a specialty), Robert De Niro began a comic turn. After Mafia blues and The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, the actor plays with his image in My stepfather and me.
In front of Jay Roach’s camera, he lends his features to Jack Byrnes, a former CIA agent rather on the teeth, and above all a (very) possessive father, determined not to let his daughter abandon him for the arms of his new boyfriend. His angry and self-mockery performance, hailed by a Golden Globe nomination in the Best Actor category, almost overshadows the hilarious whipping boy camped by Ben Stiller.
Their mythical duo and sequences that are memorable to say the least (La Guigne, the lie detector, etc.) make My Stepfather and Me a huge success in theaters: 330 million dollars in revenue worldwide for a budget of 55 million. The film also benefits from two sequels: My stepfather, my parents and me in 2004, then My stepfather and us in 2010.
My Stepfather and Me by Jay Roach with Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo…
Tonight on 6ter at 9:05 p.m.