Starring Gerard Depardieu, Katherine Heigl, Dalton James, Lauren Hutton and Faith Prince, My Father the Hero is a romantic comedy directed by Steve Miner. Released in 1993, the movie is the English remake of the French film called 'Mon père, ce héros' (1991) and depicts the tribulations of a father, when he accompanies his teenage daughter to a tropical island. Read the complete story of My Father the Hero here.
Nicole is a 14-year-old New York girl (Katherine Heigl), who goes for a vacation to the Bahamas with her French father Andre (Gerard Depardieu), a divorcee from an ex-American wife. What turns this vacationing trip of father-daughter into a topsy-turvy ride is Nicole's idea to appear as a woman and not a teenage girl. In order to impress a local boy called Ben (Dalton James), working at the hotel, she starts cooking up absurd stories, which begin with her father being her boyfriend.
The loving father, in order to make his daughter happy, agrees to feign as her boyfriend. This bizarre game leads to a string of ridiculous stories, one after another. The funny strategy eventually takes a bad shape, when all the guests snub the father and starts avoiding him. They assume Nichole to be an underage concubine, living with this aged pedophilic man, old enough to be her father. Now, it is up to her whether she tells Ben the truth or let things get from bad to worse.
