Poster from TMDB
Film · TMDB
6.4A dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend.
Cast
- Bryan Cranston as Ned Fleming
- James Franco as Laird Mayhew
- Zoey Deutch as Stephanie Fleming
- Megan Mullally as Barb Fleming
- Griffin Gluck as Scotty Fleming
- Keegan-Michael Key as Gustav
Themes
- daughter
- rivalry
- parent-in-law child-in-law relationship
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Ratings
IMDb
6.2/10
131,421 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
40%
Metacritic
39/100
- Year
- 2016
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 win total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- John Hamburg
- Screenplay by
- John Hamburg Ian Helfer
- Story by
- Jonah Hill John Hamburg Ian Helfer
- Produced by
- Shawn Levy Dan Levine Ben Stiller Jonah Hill
- Starring
- James Franco Bryan Cranston Megan Mullally Zoey Deutch Cedric the Entertainer Griffin Gluck Keegan-Michael Key
- Cinematography
- Kris Kachikis
- Edited by
- William Kerr Dean Zimmerman
- Music by
- Theodore Shapiro
- Production companies
- Red Hour Productions 21 Laps Entertainment 75 Year Plan Productions
- Distributed by
- 20th Century Fox
- Release dates
- December 17, 2016 ( 2016-12-17 ) ( Los Angeles ) December 23, 2016 ( 2016-12-23 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 111 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $38–52 million
- Box office
- $118.1 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 111
- FilmAffinity ID
- 810642
- Official website
- www.whyhimmovie.com
Show 6 more facts
- title
- Why Him?
- publication date
- 2016-12-22
- capital cost
- 38000000
- box office
- 118029794
- social media followers
- 2533
- review score
- 39/100
Sources (15)
via Wikidata · CC0
~8 min read
Article
Why Him? is a 2016 American romantic comedy film directed by John Hamburg, written by Hamburg and Ian Helfer based on a story by Jonah Hill, produced by Hill, Shawn Levy, and Ben Stiller, and stars James Franco and Bryan Cranston with Zoey Deutch, Megan Mullally, Cedric the Entertainer, Griffin Gluck and Keegan-Michael Key in supporting roles. The film follows a father who tries to stop his daughter's immature tech-millionaire boyfriend from asking her to marry him.
The film premiered in Los Angeles on December 17, 2016, was released by 20th Century Fox in the United States on December 23, 2016. It received generally negative reviews from critics, but was a financial success, grossing $118.1 million worldwide on a $52 million budget.