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Why Him? (2016)

Why Him?
Why Him?
R
Comedy

Release Date
December 22, 2016
Director
John Hamburg
Runtime
111
Main Genre
Comedy
Studio
20th Century Fox
Writers
John Hamburg , Ian Helfer , Jonah Hill
Tagline
Of all the guys his daughter could have chosen...

Summary

The story centers on a Midwestern father who takes his family to visit his daughter — who is attending Stanford — at Christmas and subsequently gets into a competition with his daughter’s boyfriend, a young Internet billionaire.

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