Being Frank (2018)
6/10
"I don't even recognize you. It's like you're two different people."
20 January 2020
Warning: Spoilers
In real life, this would be almost impossible to pull off, especially with two families in near proximity to each other, although I'll end this review with a personal insight. I like Jim Gaffigan as a stand-up comic but I've never seen his television series. I think he's incredibly funny, however this picture's attempt to make a terrible concept laughable sadly misses it's mark. Some fairly clever writing allows his character to rationalize the decision to marry two different women to son Philip (Logan Miller), but the effort is lost when it comes to the grand finale and Frank has to face up to the horror he created for separate families. I didn't particularly care for any of the characters here, and Uncle Ross (Alex Karpovsky) appeared to be the worst kind of caricature the film makers could have come up with for a bong addicted stoner recruited for the job of Frank's alter ego. And if one needs further proof that Hollywood enables and promotes a gay agenda, the tent scene with Eddie (Gage Banister) and Troy (Thomas Mulzac) pretty much confirms it.

But you know, strange things do happen. My wife's grandmother was married to a man in New York State, who raised a family with a son and four daughters. At a certain point, he called it quits and left the family unannounced and went to Canada. There he remarried with no divorce from the first wife, and raised another family in the same order, a boy and four girls. The families were raised about two decades apart, and eventually learned of each other's existence. By then everyone was mature, the cheating husband had passed on, and members of the family eventually got together with each other in Nova Scotia, without fireworks I might add. I always thought they should have gone on Jerry Springer.
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