Dad's Week Off
1997 American TV series or program
National Lampoon's Dad's Week Off is a 1997 American comedy television film written and directed by Neal Israel, based on a story by Robert Kosberg, and starring Henry Winkler, Olivia d'Abo, and Richard Jeni. It premiered on Showtime on March 29, 1997.
01Plot
A computer salesman charged with marketing a tiny computer that no one can operate, faces hypertension when he realizes that there is no way to sell the product and he is likely to lose his job. So he can get some rest, his wife offers to take their two kids camping for a week. When his fellow salesman and best friend is fired and thrown out of his house by his wife, he moves in and immediately starts unending parties, which ultimately ends up the house on fire and Winkler arrested on multiple charges. In between, in a drug-induced stupor, he gets mixed up with a ditzy blonde who wants to marry him, and rescue her child from being raised by her parents.
02Cast
- Henry Winkler - Jack Potter
- Olivia d'Abo - Cherice
- Richard Jeni - Bernie
- Justin Louis - Chip
- Ken Pogue - Emmett Sharpel
- Wendel Meldrum - Lew
- Don S. Davis - Hank
- Colleen Winton - Gayle Sharpel
- Miguelito Macario Andaluz - Lew
- Yee Jee Tso - Kea
- Jerry Wasserman - Detective
- Christine Willes - Alice
- Adrian Hughes - Brother #2, Bob
- John R. Taylor - Minister
- Will Sasso - Pete
- Laurie McLay - Pauline
- Mark Acheson - Sobbing Man
- Robert Frederick - Sandy the Lawyer
- Michael Kopsa - Cop
- Lossen Chambers - Lolita
- Fred Henderson - Doctor
- Eric Pospisil - Nicholas
- Kaitlyn Burke - Rebecca
- Patrick Pon - Fang Leader
- Don MacKay - Mr. Mendelson
- Charles Siegel - Sam
- Ernie Prentice - Old Golf Man
- April Telek - Bikini Girl
- Ken Lowther - Uncle Morty
Sources and credits
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