Doug Burr It is a shame this film was not properly released. I mostly enjoyed it. Louis seemed to have a clear idea of what he wanted stylistically. The settings are elite parts of New York and one scene in Paris. It is all shot in black and white. The whole film seems like Louis C K is trying to make a Woody Allen film and it mostly works. The cast is great and they all do a great job. Rose Byrne plays a charming love interest. Louis character gets bullied and harassed by pretty much every female character, but, the following three are the most domineering. His ex wife played by Helen Hunt is by far the most outright abusive. His business partner played by Edie Falco is always nagging him to do things. At times she is in the right, but, it doesn't make her any less annoying. His ex girlfriend is played by Pamela Adlon. This character is kind of obnoxious and not nearly as charming as she thinks she is. The actresses might all be nice people, but I found their characters very annoying. Louis' character is okay, at times I sympathised with him and at other times I wanted to shake some sense into him. He is okay at acting, but, his delivery is nowhere near as good as his stand up. I'm sure if he keeps working at it he will get better. Charlie Day really is a scene stealer. He has some of the best lines in the film and biggest laughs. I thought John Malkovich and Chloe Grace Mortez were the best. Their scenes together were my favourites. He has to be one of the most charming actors in the business and she is already one of the best actresses of her generation. They were able to take what could have been a very creepy dynamic and actually make it charming and believable. My main issues are with the plot. There were a lot of times I wanted Louis' character to stand up for himself more. I also think the ending could have been better. The film was entertaining enough, but, it didn't really express any clear message. For his first proper film, Louis did well. I don't know if he will ever be back after his scandal, but if he is given another chance, he has the potential to make some great films.

johnpmoseley Oh man. This is painful, and not just for the surrounding scandal. Louis' work is super important to me, his TV series Louie primarily, but also his standup and Horace and Pete. This film fails dismally not just as art, but to meet the moral and philosophical standard of his best works, especially the TV series. The scenario is clear enough from the widely circulated trailer: super-successful TV writer/producer's teenage daughter becomes involved with ageing Magus, a respected director, who may or may not once have committed an act of paedophilic rape. There is a formal problem from the get-go: why is this profoundly troubling subject matter being whimsically shot and scored like a Hollywood golden age classic? The only halfway coherent or defensible answer seems to be that it's because it's not really a direct homage to the golden age, but to Woody Allen's own homages to it, a second-order homage, befitting the fact that the possibly paedophilic director is a fictionalised Allen (though temperamentally he is nothing like him). Even seen this way, it doesn't work. For subject matter this serious, you need to go to Allen precedents like Another Woman, Crimes and Misdemeanours or, most resonantly, Manhattan, which for all its monochrome high style, still has such a firm grounding in observed reality and emotional difficulty. I Love You Daddy feels more like later, trivial Allen, as if Louis, having done so well himself with observed reality and emotional difficulty, felt the best way to pay tribute to the older director was by emulating his loss of edge. All of this would be a problem no matter the subject matter, but given the sensitivity of what's under observation, it's well-nigh unforgivable. The subject of statutory rape is simply trivialised. That starts with the look and feel, but is followed through abundantly in the script. The purported victim of the alleged historic crime remains nameless and faceless ('that kid') and the protagonist's crass sidekick turns the situation into a dumb exercise in supposedly brave tactlessness, asking the director flat out whether he did it and thereby earning his respect and friendship. Meanwhile, other characters are wheeled on to further make light of this most extreme form of sexual assault and the only one who counsels caution is shown to be wrong. I don't and can't know the truth of the Allen case, except that I know a child was badly hurt and has carried that hurt through adulthood. My thoughts after seeing this are with her and others like her, as Louis' should have been and were not. I can barely understand how he thought this could have been OK, let alone how the excellent cast could have got involved. It's a mercy it didn't go on general release.

Frank_Caprica Great script, great cast, great film. I really enjoyed this dialogue driven film, proving a great script in a low budget films beats out a dumb blockbuster evry time. I also love black and white films and this looks great.

pjohnson-96664 So much wasted talent. John Malkovich, Charlie Day, Albert Brooks, Edie Falco, Helen Hunt...no one could save this film. The writing was incredibly poor, especially for Louis C.K.'s standard. The dialogue was jilted. The direction was generic. The music was out of place. The black & white cinematography looked like a bad sitcom trying to do a one-off tribute episode to Children of Paradise. Save yourself the 2 hours and don't bother.