Movie Review: Car Salesman “Breadwinner” turns Mister Mom Wannabe

Comic Nate Bargatze’s Hollywood studio comedy debut, “The Breadwinner,” is another “Mister Mom/Daddy Daycare” knockoff, a “Dad’s no good at kiddie caregiving” conceit that’s so moldy and out of date that the less said about this stiff the better.

Movie Review: Car Salesman “Breadwinner” turns Mister Mom Wannabe. Comic Nate Bargatze’s Hollywood studio comedy debut, “The Breadwinner,” is another “Mister Mom/Daddy Daycare” knockoff, a “Dad’s no good at kiddie caregiving” conceit that’s so moldy and out of date that the less said about this stiff the better. But given the beatdown that Bargatze deserves (he co-wrote it) for creating this corpse, it’s worth recalling something the great comic actor David Alan Grier said about auditioning for “Seinfeld.” The pilot script “sucked.” True enough. But “This man can’t act” was the real reason Grier figured that “show about nothing” was never going to become a reality. Bargazte can’t act. Not a lick. You stare at his flat expressions and look for signs of life behind those empty eyes and wonder how this ever got a green light. He’s Jim Gaffig...