It’s a worsening shock for unsuspecting father, Andre (Gerard Depardieu) when he flies in from Paris to New York to pick up his 14-year-old daughter, Nicole (Katherine Heigl) from frazzled mother, Megan (Lauren Hutton) who has gone though the new teenage phase first-hand. During a two-week holiday on an island paradise, Andre finds that nothing can please his pouting, bad-tempered daughter – at least while he’s around – but the fact is she’s a teenager trying for instant adulthood, and being with dad doesn’t give her the chance. When she meets hunky Ben (Dalton James), the only way she can impress him is to make herself more worldly- wise and she does this with whopping lies that accelerate and make life hell for Andre. He’s unaware that in the eyes of the other islander’s he’s a dirty old man who is actually Nicole’s lover. Andre can’t understand the disdain which the other guests – especially Ben – hold for him. His funniest faux pas is to entertain them at a talent night by singing “ Thank Heaven For Little Girls” – a performance which literally empties the house.

Depardieu is probably one of the few actors who could convince as both the rough international spy Nicole invents and the loving father he really is. Worthy of note in the cast is Broadway star, Faith Prince as Diana, a man hunter who sets her sights on Andre and listens to his sad stories about the woman he left behind in Paris. This continuing sub-plot also gives the movie one of it’s happiest surprises.