You are here:

Adopt a Daddy

Name: Adopt a Daddy
Director: Xavier De Choudens
Released: 2019
Duration: 99 min

Representation Score

6.0/10

Fair

2019

Director

Xavier De Choudens

Runtime

99 minutes

Average Rating

No ratings yet

New Showbiz Analysis

The film effectively uses the struggle of a student facing expulsion to drive its central conflict, providing a meaningful narrative engine through Bahzad's vulnerability. By focusing on this issue, the story challenges institutional authority and systemic power. Gender representation is enhanced by Mélanie, whose role as a high-level lawyer disrupts conventional domestic clichés. This provides a sense of professional empowerment that complements the protagonist's journey. However, the film lacks visible representation of LGBTQ+ identities and offers no information regarding disability representation. The focus remains on social and familial solidarity.

Watch this, not that →

Category Breakdown

Does Adopt a Daddy have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film does not include explicit representations of LGBTQ+ identities or relationships outside of traditional heterosexual norms. The narrative emphasizes family and community bonds without featuring any queer characters.

How does Adopt a Daddy portray gender?

Fair

Mélanie challenges traditional gender roles by working as a powerful business lawyer. Her professional role and intellect serve as a strong counterbalance to the male protagonist.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Adopt a Daddy?

Good

Bahzad, a student facing expulsion, drives the plot. His underrepresented status serves as the main catalyst for the film's conflict.

How does Adopt a Daddy represent religion and culture?

Good

The story critiques Western institutions by portraying state-mandated expulsion as a moral antagonist. It emphasizes human empathy and communal solidarity over strict legal compliance.

Does Adopt a Daddy include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no indication of physical or neurodivergent disability representation among the characters. No specific traits related to disabilities are highlighted in the narrative.

Present on Screen

Empowers female characters through Mélanie's high-level professional role.
Centers underrepresented experiences by making a student's expulsion the plot's main driver.
Challenges systemic institutional authority through a lens of communal solidarity.

Limited or Absent

Lacks visible representation of LGBTQ+ identities or relationships.
Provides no discernible representation or focus on characters with disabilities.

Official Synopsis

Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has become a formidable business lawyer, her best friend Rudy and a bunch of unlikely pals to accompany him in his new fight. Together, they will break the law by solidarity. And very quickly to be completely exceeded.

How are these scores produced? →