Director: Lorene Scafaria, Bill Benz, Rachel Sennott, Kevin Bray
Family loyalty and industry wariness pull in opposite directions in this 2025 comedy-drama, built around a father who suddenly has every reason to pay closer attention to his daughter's social circle.
What is I Love You, Daddy about?
The daughter of a successful television writer starts spending time around an older filmmaker whose reputation carries a shadow he has never fully reckoned with, and her father is left trying to figure out how far to push back without pushing her away entirely. The film treats the situation less as a straightforward warning story and more as an uneasy comedy of manners, following awkward dinners, half-honest conversations, and the writer's own doubts about whether his instincts are protective or simply controlling. Rather than settling the question quickly, the story lets the discomfort sit and shift scene to scene.
Cast & crew
Rachel Sennott leads an ensemble that includes Odessa A'zion, Jordan Firstman, True Whitaker, Josh Hutcherson, and Quen Blackwell, moving between the father's household and the wider circle around the filmmaker at the center of the story. The cast leans into overlapping dialogue and reaction shots to keep the tone somewhere between comic and genuinely tense.
Context & significance
The film is credited to a directing team of Lorene Scafaria, Bill Benz, Rachel Sennott, and Kevin Bray, a combination that draws on both feature comedy and television pacing. That mixed background shows in a structure that moves briskly between scenes rather than lingering on any single confrontation for long.
Where & how to watch
It streams on K-Time with a free account login, and the platform's Farsi interface and search tools make it easy for Persian-speaking viewers to locate it among the site's English-language comedy and drama titles.