Artificial-insemination screw-up: a black high-school girl, breaking into the sperm-bank computer, discovers that her real father is not as requested ("black, smart, not too tall") but is instead a white man (worse, a car salesman modelled on Cal Worthington: cowboy duds, circus animals, everbody's buddy). Richard Benjamin directs with an evenly heavy hand on the comedy, the sentiment, and the gear-grinding shifts between. One sweet (and discreet) touch: a theater marquee in the background of a shot spells out a tribute to his wife: "Paula Prentiss Retrospective." (We might rather be watching that.) And his look-alike son, Ross, is given a tiny role on the television-commercial crew. With Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Nia Long, and Will Smith. (1993) — Duncan Shepherd
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