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Billboard Dad
DVD cover
Directed byAlan Metter
Written byMaria Jacquemetton
StarringAshley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
1998
CountryTemplate:Film US
LanguageEnglish

Billboard Dad is a 1998 American direct-to-video comedy film, starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

Plot

Set in Los Angeles, the plot revolves around Emily Tyler (Ashley Olsen), who enjoys surfing, and her twin sister Tess (Mary-Kate Olsen), a member of a high diving team, who try various stratagems to get their widowed dad Max, a talented artist and sculptor, a girlfriend. After all their attempts end in failure, Tess and Emily – with a little help from their friend, Cody (who has an obvious crush on Tess) – decide to paint an advertisement on a giant billboard situated high above Sunset Boulevard. A lady named Debbie answers the ad, and she brings her friend Brooke as a back up. Brooke and Max coincidentally meet and take a liking to each other and Debbie agrees they should start dating. At first, Tess and Emily don't like Brooke's son Ryan, but when he helps foil an elaborate scheme by Max's business manager Nigel to break up the romantic relationship between Max and Brooke (Nigel thinks Max's work will suffer as a result), the girls eventually accept him.

Some have seen the film as a modern retelling of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, mostly because at the end of the film, every character is satisfied and happy, except, of course, for the villainous character.

Cast

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