Billboard Dad (1998)
High above Hollywood Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are playing Matchmakers! One's a surfer. The other's a high diver. When these two sisters team up to find a new love for their newly single Dad, it's a fun-loving, eye-catching California adventure gone wild. Mary-Kate and Ashley star in this fabulously funny love-struck comedy filled with crazy schemes and cool surprises. Determined to find their Dad, Max, a new love, the girls paint a personal ad on a giant billboard in the heart of Hollywood. After a few disastrous dates, Max finally meets Brooke and it's love at first sight. There's just one hitch, her unruly skateboarding son is the girls' arch rival. Now, with the girls plotting every action-packed step of the way, they've got to find out if love really does conquer all. Full of outrageous events, mixed-up matches and lots of laughs, Billboard Dad tops the charts as Mary-Kate and Ashley's coolest mischief-making adventure ever!
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I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
As with "Our Lips Are Sealed," I found this to be one of the better Olsen movies. The sets are beautiful; then again, Southern California is usually beautiful. Some of the acting is a little cheesy, especially on the character Nigel's part; this is inevitable in most children's movies, however. Overall, this movie is cute and harmless fun with a semi-unique storyline to boot. I give it a 10 in the field of Olsen movies, because I feel that it can't be rated against mainstream blockbusters such as "Crash" or "Braveheart." I would definitely recommend this movie if you're looking for a good family movie that adults and children can tolerate and enjoy.
Children's films about real life problems can be very well done and evenly moving and beautiful for both children and adults to watch. This film, however, is not one of them. I can easily forgive the Olsen twins, they are not that bad. But the director and the other actors, especially the one who plays the dad, have done a horrible job. There is not a single subtle moment in the film, in which two girls cope with the loss of their deceased mother and try to lighten up their terribly sad and sobbing father. The story is dreadful and superficial.If you have lost somebody, this film will not help you to get over it or make you feel better in any way. It's too fake. A shipwreck of a movie.
Possibly the worst movie ever. See "Switching Goals" instead. It didn't make any sense. No 12 year old can get a tattoo without parental consent, especially one that preppy and annoying. The acting was atrocious, the storyline stupid, and I'm glad I saw this movie for free, I never want to go see it again.
This movie is funny with Mary - Kate & Ashley playing Emily and Tess which one is surfer and the other a swimmer. I like the part when they found out that Brooke's son is the skate boarding rival guy and I like too when Cody tell Emily or Tess by mistake that he has a crush on her. But my favorite part is when I we hear the rap of Nigel talking about taking the money of Max. This movie is funny with beautiful girls and cute guys =+)