As an actor, Sebastian Maniscalco is a great comedian. And that's pretty much how "About My Father" goes: As a movie, it never feels like anything more than material that would be better served in one of Maniscalco's killer stand-up routines.
Maniscalco plays Sebastian, a version of himself, who in this reality works in the hotel business. Robert De Niro is Salvo, his hairdresser father, who came over from Sicily to give his family a better life.
A loose series of sketches about his immigrant father's idiosyncrasies would be par for the course, but instead the plot twists itself into pretzels to become a sort of double romantic comedy, covering both Sebastian's relationship with his soon-to-be wife, Ellie (Leslie Bibb), and his relationship with his father.
