Who’s Your Daddy?

A teenage boy’s fantasy may to be inherit millions and be surrounded by beautiful girls, but the reality is that high school kids are often driven by peer pressure not to strive for anything but chasing girls, and even that pursuit can be frustrating. In Who’s Your Daddy?, directed by Andy Fickman, Chris Hughes (played by Brandon Davis) is a reporter for the Xenia (Ohio) High School newspaper, The Porcupine. He eats in the cafeteria with several self-styled “losers,” including best friend corpulent Adam Torey (played by Charles Talbert). Chris would like to go out with attractive Heather (played by Patsy Kensit), and he resists attention from newspaper editor Kate Reeves (played by Christine Lakin). Chris’s father (played by Justin Berfield) is straightlaced, but his mother Beverly (played by Colleen Camp) is rather nutty. One day there is a knock at the Hughes residence. Attorney Michael Hunt (played by Robert Torti) has come to inform Chris that his birthparents are both dead, and his birthfather’s will provides that he is to inherit an $87-million porn media empire known as Heaven. Chris is then whisked to Los Angeles along with Adam to take control of the business. Brookes (played by Kadeem Hardison), the brother of Chris’s birthfather wants to take over, so he beguiles Chris with the opportunity to indulge topless beauties at his new home and asks him to sign papers that he does not understand that surrender control. Upon learning that he no longer controls the $87 million, Chris decides to return home, where he learns that his new fame has attracted Heather, though Kate professes her continuing attention just in case he changes his mind. Eventually, however, Heaven stockholders organize a coup to bring back Chris, who returns to Los Angeles for an inevitable happy ending. The moral of the story then becomes clear if overplayed throughout the film. MH

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