Killing Dad

Killing Dad (1989)

A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meets a seducing older woman prone to drinking and her aged boyfriend whom she grew tired of.

Date of release
1989-09-01
TMDB
4.3 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Michael Austin

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Berg

Killing Dad is a 1989 British black comedy film adapted from Berg, a 1964 novel by the British experimental writer Ann Quin. It stars Richard E. Grant as Alistair Berg, a man who travels to a seaside town intending to murder the father who abandoned him and his mother many years earlier, and is now living in a dilapidated hotel with a much younger woman.

Trivia

Anna Chancellor has a small, non-speaking role as a barmaid in the bingo hall that Judith and Berg visit.

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