Son in Law

Jul 2, 1993

1h 35m

★ 6.0

He's a relative nightmare.

Overview

Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl, who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back to South Dakota, where he pretends to be her fiancé.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Hollywood Pictures

Son in Law Trailers

Cast

Crawl

Pauly Shore

Rebecca Warner

Carla Gugino

Walter Warner

Lane Smith

Tracy

Tiffani-Amber Thiessen

Connie Warner

Cindy Pickett

Walter Warner Sr.

Mason Adams

Zack Warner

Patrick Renna

Theo

Dennis Burkley

Travis

Dan Gauthier

Male Hairdresser

Garret Sato

Tattoo Artist (uncredited)

Flea

Link (Uncredited)

Brendan Fraser

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