Superdad

Superdad
Directed by	Vincent McEveety
Produced by	Bill Anderson
Written by	Joseph L. McEveety Harlan Ware
Starring	Bob Crane Barbara Rush Kurt Russell Joe Flynn Kathleen Cody
Music by	Buddy Baker
Cinematography	Andrew Jackson
Editing by	Ray de Leuw
Studio	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	Buena Vista Distribution
Release date(s)	December 14, 1973
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Superdad is a 1973 American comedy film by Walt Disney Productions and starring Bob Crane, Barbara Rush, Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, and Kathleen Cody. The film marks the on-screen debut of Bruno Kirby.

This film was an attempt by the Disney company to address the generation gap and the social upheaval of the Vietnam era, but it was a critical and commercial failure.

Plot

An executive (Bob Crane) tries to wrest his daughter (Kathleen Cody) from her childhood sweetheart (Kurt Russell), of whom he disapproves.

Home viewing

After its theatrical release, it appeared on the Wonderful World of Disney anthology television series. To date it has not been widely released on DVD (made available exclusively to members of the Disney Movie Club in that format), but it did have a limited release on VHS. It was also recently released on iTunes.

In other media

Superdad was featured in the biographical film Auto Focus, with Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) seeing his role as the leading man in this Disney film as a way to revive his career following the retirement of his hit series Hogan's Heroes. Footage of the film is shown where Crane is on water skis (Kinnear in a re-shoot of that scene), along with a voice-over of how Superdad sat on the shelves for a year before flopping at the box office.