In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and the greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of fame, fortune and popularity, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.
With Dad and his last writer-director effort, "Sleeping Dogs Lie," Goldthwait has accomplished the formidable feat of making wry, tender, fundamentally sweet comedies about the human condition that just happen to center on acts of autoerotic asphyxiation and bestiality, respectively. That isn't easy.
80
Village Voice
Unnamed
The particular stew of midlife and pubescent despair that clogs a single-father male-child household has rarely been achieved so well.
With a merciless acuity this nihilistic comedy ridicules collective grief and the news media's cynical marketing of inspirational uplift after a death.
70
Variety
Dennis Harvey
The picture wobbles a bit before emerging a successful low-key satire of literary fraud and morbid personality cults.