Synopsis
Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl, who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back to South Dakota, where he pretends to be her fiancé.
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Cast
- Pauly ShoreCrawl
- Carla GuginoRebecca Warner
- Lane SmithWalter Warner
- Tiffani ThiessenTracy
- Cindy PickettConnie Warner
- Mason AdamsWalter Warner Sr.
- Patrick RennaZack Warner
- Dennis BurkleyTheo
- Dan GauthierTravis
- Michael GeorgeBass Player (uncredited)
Recommendations
- 50
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie might have had a chance if it had abandoned all the false sentiment and simply acknowledged Crawl as the cretin he is. John Belushi would have known how to play this part. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
SON-IN-LAW is like too much of Disney's profligate output, undemanding entertainment for undemanding people. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
In ”Son-In-Law,” Pauly Shore is like MTV’s missing Marx Brother; call him Sleazo. For once, he makes being utterly shameless seem halfway likable. - 50
Washington Post
Well, the movie's dumber than a coop full of chickens, but Pauly Shore makes a funny barnyard animal. - 40
Empire
Terrible, but not worth getting worked up about. - 40
Los Angeles Times
In the end, you can’t have much movie fun with freakiness if you aren’t willing to freak the movie out a little. - 38
The Seattle Times
It's perhaps the only film that could make you wish they'd made a sequel to "Encino Man" instead. [2 July 1993, p.D24] - 30
Austin Chronicle
There are moments here in which Shore actually behaves like a recognizable human being with some semblance of feelings, emotions and conscience. Happily, his acting skills are adequate to the task.
