Father of Invention
Dir: Trent Cooper
2011
**
Trent Cooper's Father of Invention is light entertainment at it's most forgettable. It's not completely awful, just dreadfully forgettable. This is not a great example of independent cinema, the producers did well to cast Kevin Spacey. Spacey can deliver the most boring of scripts and make them sound like masterpieces, he brings theatre to every performance. He is the only reason the film is worth watching, although Heather Graham and Johnny Knoxville are extremely likable too. The story is interesting; an inventor is released after serving eight years for manslaughter after one of his inventions maims thousands of customers. The possibilities are endless with an opening idea such as that but instead, Cooper has our newly released inventor seek out the forgiveness of his daughter in a slow, drawn-out and unfunny series of awkward encounters. It's labeled a comedy but it really isn't one.