Killing Dad (1989)
- Original title
- Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
- Directed by
- Michael Austin
- Genre
- black comedy
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 4.6 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man travels to a seaside town to kill the father who abandoned him. The father now lives in a rundown hotel with a much younger woman.
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What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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