Delivery Man

Plot synopsis:
David Wozniak (Vince Vaughn) is a hapless deliveryman for his family's butcher shop, pursued by thugs to whom he owes $80,000. His girlfriend Emma, an NYPD officer (Cobie Smulders) is pregnant with his child. One day, David returns from work to find a lawyer representing a sperm bank (where he gave 693 donations and earned a sum of $24,255 during his student years) who tells him that the clinic gave his samples to women in the clinic and that he has fathered 533 children. Of those, 142 have joined a class action lawsuit to force the fertility clinic to reveal the identity of "Starbuck", the alias he had used.
David's friend and lawyer Brett (Chris Pratt) represents him as he tries to keep the records sealed. He provides David with profiles of each party to the lawsuit: David searches for them, finding moments for random acts of kindness. David considers identifying himself; but, after the thugs assault his father, he agrees with his lawyer to counter-sue the sperm bank for punitive damages. He wins the lawsuit, receives $200,000, and keeps his identity a secret.
David has regrets and thinks about revealing his identity. However, if he chooses to do so, he would lose the $200,000 that he won in the countersuit. He reveals to his father that he is Starbuck. His father decides to pay off David's debt. David finally reveals his identity on Facebook. He goes to Emma's house and finds that she is going into premature labor. At the hospital, his baby is born, he proposes to Emma, and many of the children show up to see him.

Tags: dramatic, cute

Review:
When David (Vince Vaughn) finds out he's the father to 533 children through donations he made to a fertility clinic 20 years ago, he learns that a fraction of them want to meet him.
I have seen a lot of Vince Vaughn films and have to say I am not a big fan of his, he sometimes shines like in the Internship, but mainly is a stiff, one dimensional actor who delivers wooden performances.His last film as I said was totally enjoyable, so I was open to seeing this as I thought maybe he has turned a corner and hell was I right!.
He is an endearing character chasing his 500 odd children and most bring flashes of hilarity whilst the rest bring a nice emotional warmth.You will definitely enjoy this film, after poor comedy outings such as this is the end, bad grandpa and the diabolical grown ups 2 this will restore faith that there will be some genuinely funny films that don't rely to much on swearing, sex and unnecessary shock humour such as casual racism and sexism.Enjoy and prepare to laugh and say awwww until the film leaves you feeling like you've finally after a few months seen a truly great comedy film again.If this is the standard Vaughn is now setting then I cant wait for the next one!!!!!.
Coming into this movie I expected a hard core comedy full of Chris Pratt puns and Vince Vaughn One liners, but after watching this movie I saw it as something else.
Vince Vaughn just blows it out the waters with an actually heart felt performance, This isn't just a sly comedy but a heart felt family drama where one ordinary man has to come to terms with an unordinary situation and Vaughn does it well and with great help from his co-stars.
Definitely worth at least one watch, if not for Vince Vaughn then definitely watch it for Chris Pratt because even if this movie isn't just a straight odd ball comedy it's definitely got it's funny moments and all mostly revolving around Chris Pratt and his Attorney at Law bit..
Watching Vince Vaughn fumble around in his role as a meat delivery man can seem kinda humorous but its almost annoying.When David (Vince Vaughn) finds out he's the father to 533 children through donations he made to a fertility clinic 20 years ago, he learns that a fraction of them want to meet him.
Against the advice of her lawyer best friend Brett (Chris Pratt), and while trying to mend the relationship he has with his girlfriend Emma (Cobie Smulders), David decides to set out and see how his children turned out.
Against the advice of her lawyer best friend Brett (Chris Pratt), and while trying to mend the relationship he has with his girlfriend Emma (Cobie Smulders), David decides to set out and see how his children turned out.
I still ended up enjoying this a lot more than I expected to so I was pleasantly surprised with Delivery Man.This is, I think, a fairly original concept, which could be pursued as a drama just as easily as a comedy, as is the case here.
'DELIVERY MAN': Three Stars (Out of Five) Vince Vaughn stars in this remake of a 2011 French-Canadian comedy-drama film about a man who discovers he fathered 533 kids through sperm donations several years earlier.
I haven't seen the original movie but I heard this update isn't as good, as far as Vince Vaughn films go it's a little disappointing but it still has a lot of heart.Vaughn plays David Wozniak, a delivery driver for his family's butcher shop who's recently came into some serious debt problems and owes some criminal thugs a lot of money.
He asks his lawyer/father friend, Brett (Pratt), to help him with the case as he starts to get to know some of his kids (for the first time) and help them out with different issues.The movie is a good Christmas film and has a great positive message about parenting and the love between fathers and their kids.
It's not nearly as funny as most Vince Vaughn films used to be though and he seems content to play the role mostly for it's sentimentality rather than trying for big laughs.
Like I said it has a lot of heart and the drama, for the most part, works but it is just a little too sappy at times (especially for a Vince Vaughn movie).
It's not a bad film but it's definitely not nearly as good as what most have come to expect from a Vince Vaughn laugh fest.Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSU_hwOQSWQ.
It's actually a shame that the film stumbles as determinedly as it does into its uncomfortably cheerful ending.Chronic underachiever David (Vaughn) can barely keep his life together: he's hugely in debt, he constantly disappoints his family, and his on-off girlfriend Emma (Cobie Smulders) has decided that he's not fit to be the father of their unborn child.
Life only gets more complicated when he discovers that - thanks to his earlier incarnation as prolific sperm donor Starbuck - he's the biological father of 533 children, 142 of whom are trying to find out who he is by contesting the confidential agreements he signed with the fertility clinic many years ago.Writer-director Ken Scott's film - a remake of his own Canadian film-festival hit Starbuck - has a lot going for it: David is written and played as an appealingly hopeless, oddly sweet failure of a man, one who tries so hard, with such good intentions, that you want to forgive him the worst of his many transgressions.
David's tentative attempts to find out more about his offspring yield moments both funny and emotional, whether he's trying to help out one son by taking a disastrous shift as a barista, or struggling to find the right things to say to a bedridden young man (Sébastien René, who's so heartbreakingly good that he's the only actor to be in both versions of Scott's film).But the film stutters and suffers as it goes on.
By the time it's picked up again at the end, they deal with David's extreme fatherhood in only the most perfunctory and unsatisfying of ways.For all its second-act troubles, Delivery Man is at least memorable for giving Vaughn a little more to do than he usually does in his paint-by-numbers comedies.
A remake of the 2011 French-Canadian film Starbuck, 'Delivery Man' is A Sweet Film, that has a charm working for it & also features a winning performance by Vince Vaughn.
The guy who is famously unable to be accountable on any front, has to confront with a reality that he has fathered over 500 children.Well, overall, this is just another Vince Vaughn movie largely amusing and light hearted but with some good moments.
The movie follows the story of David Wozniak (Vince Vaughn) as he realizes that all the sperm he donated when he was 20 had fathered 533 children.
Delivery Man is an American remake of the 2011 film Starbuck by Ken Scott, a story about a man who donated his sperms countless times in the past under the name 'Starbuck' and found out years later that his sperms fathered 533 children and 142 of them is looking for him.
Furthermore, Vince managed to provide enough charisma for the audience to accept his eventual personal growth near the end of the film.His eventual decision to interact with some of his 142 revealed children: a troubled female teen with drug issues, a struggling street musician, a existentialism-driven geek, a swimming trainer, a disabled, wheelchair-bound son, an aspiring young actor-to-be, etc...searching some moments for random acts of kindness to help them is heartwarming, funny and entertaining at times as the story is told with good-natured sweetness in it.
Although the film offers nothing more than its premise, the film is not as bad as many would have expected it to be and has certainly delivered what it has promised.Rating: 7/10 http://yjcool.blogspot.com/2014/01/movie-review-delivery-man.html.
Starbuck's relationship that he develops with the few children that it shows with him come across as semi-genuine and smile-worthy.I will say that one thing that I found slightly annoying is that every single one of his children that he finds, they make it seem like his intervening is super-beneficial (with a select few).I also can acknowledge that the plot of the movie is absurd, I can't let that affect me, because I also love a movie about Michael Jordan playing aliens in a game of basketball.The movie has a few heartfelt moments where Vaughn could have maybe added a little more to his performance, he tears up only once (I think) in the entirety of the film, but there were plenty of emotional moments where he could have really shown his acting chops.
Chris Pratt is absolutely brilliant in this film, I don't know if it was superb writing or his comedic timing, but I love him in this role.All-in-all this is a feel-good comedy that is definitely worth watching..
It's set up is certainly humorous and there is plenty of hilarious moments, but it is actually a meaningful comedy drama as we follow Vaughn discovering he has fathered 533 children through sperm donation.
Funny and well acted, Delivery Man is worth the watch for anyone looking for a good comedy or drama.
Nothing to brag about to the choir but Vince Vaughn's performance as an estranged and enthusiastic man (David Wozniak) in the American remake of the film, Starbuck or Delivery Man, is what keeps the film going.Some of the things that made a draw for me over the over-hyped, overrated, and annoying Hunger Games: Catching Fire was Delivery Man's closeness (as rumored by Ken Scott, the director behind the original and this remake) to the original, Vaughn being a funny stand-alone comedian even without a posse or Owen Wilson, and the idea that I would get some of the American jokes better than the exclusively French- Canadian/Quebecois ones.Nevertheless, it is the story of practically a schmuck and loner who wants to lend a helping hand and his persona captures it well and good performances all round from the encounters Wozniak meets.
It felt encouraging to know the similarity paved for its remake (which are forms of filmmaking I have hang-ups about) and how the sperm donor concept would work out for comedy without it being a raunchfest (a la Hangover).I wish there would be more of Vince Vaughn's crazy antics and humour present here but this film is commendable and believable enough in a way like he was in The Internship, a pretty good high-concept comedy that was lambasted and mocked by antics unfortunately.
While the film is fine and watchable from the start, it does suffer from things that are personal and possibly the whole idealism element and happy ending did not give it the edge it needed given Vaughn's persona.Still, considering how much Catching Fire will fill up the auditoriums, why not pay $10.50 to go see Delivery Man (or see the original on Netflix) or even Philomena, another comedy-drama of epic proportions, instead.".
"You're never quite ready for what life delivers."I was somewhat surprised with Delivery Man considering I went into it expecting it to be yet another typical comedy, and in a way it starts out being one, but as the story progressed it turned out to be a heartfelt drama.
Vince, Colby Smulders, and Chris Pratt are wonderful in it.In short, Delivery Man is a really touching "feel good" movie about fatherhood and being a screwup and trying to make good.
A comedy where a man who is all ready down on his luck and then finds out that he is the biological father of 533 children sounds like a good comedy that Vince Vaughn could pull off.
Delivery Man is the remake of Canadian film Starbuck(which I haven't seen), and it's a movie that surprised me how heart-warming the film is and how feel-good the story is.
It has some funny parts, but it relies on a dramatic story with themes of father bonding with his kids....even if there are 533 of them.Ken Scott, who also directed Starbuck, directs a film about an irresponsible and lazy man known as David Wozniak.
A waste of a good premise, Ken Scott's "Delivery Man" stars Vince Vaughn as David Wozniak, an irresponsible truck driver who learns that he has artificially inseminated hundreds of women.
Enjoyable!Round-Up: Vince Vaughn surprised me in this movie because he usually plays characters that get on my nerves after a while like in The Internship and The Watch.
That's not what happens in Delivery Man. Here we're met with surprising love, heart-felt warmth and good fuzzy-feelings, with a dash of comedy.Vince Vaughan is David Wozniak, a first class screw up whose life takes a turn for the outrageous when he finds out, due to some frequent visits to the fertility clinic, he is the father of 533 children and now 124 are filing a lawsuit to find out who he is.Director Ken Scott gives his movie Starbuck (2011) another spin with an English speaking cast but this time around a little bit funnier.
There are some great supporting actors including Bobby Moynihan as Vaughan's irate brother, Cobie Smulders as the love interest but man of the hour Chris Pratt steals the show as his best friend lawyer who has some great one liners and a hilarious relationship with his on screen kids.Being a Dad myself I can certainly relate to this movie.
Despite of many critical comments Delivery Man shines as Vince Vaughn shines in this movie.When David (Vaughn) found out about kids from his sperm donation he sets out to find out how they live their life.
Delivery ManIf sperm banks want to compete in this market, they'll need to open up late-night ATMs for deposits.Fortunately, this dramedy isn't about public jerk-off booths.Years after donating to a sperm bank, David (Vince Vaughn), a seriously indebted meat truck driver, discovers his donations have sired 533 children.Now, some of those kids are petitioning the courts, and the clinic, to learn the real name of the donor.Meanwhile, David visits his children as a helpful stranger, assisting them when he can.But needing funds for an unpaid debt, and for his pregnant girlfriend (Cobie Smulders), David sues the clinic.Hollywood's remake of the French-Canadian film Starbuck, Delivery Man is helmed by the writer/director of the francophone version.However, that familiarity with the source material doesn't save this sappy update from the annoyance of Vaughn's incessant nattering.Furthermore, when they are 533 of you, incest laws shouldn't be applicable.
Delivery Man TRAILERAbsolutely wonderful movie, I watched this gem on the plane ride to Dominican Republic and was very pleased to say Vince Vaughn did an excellent job and Cobie Smulders was fantastic, plus adorable.
David Wozniak, Vince Vaughn, donated to a fertility clinic 20 years ago to make money as a young man and now when he is older finds out he is the father of 533 children.
The story is pretty basic, a guy (Vince Vaughan) who has donated his, sperm some 690 times discovers that he is now the biological father of, 593 kids who are suing in order to obtain the identify of the man who, goes by the pseudonym "Starbucks".
The story is pretty basic, a guy (Vince Vaughan) who has donated his, sperm some 690 times discovers that he is now the biological father of, 593 kids who are suing in order to obtain the identify of the man who, goes by the pseudonym "Starbucks".
we don't know too much about Vaughn's troubled David Wozniak except he's a really nice guy who loves his family, extended or otherwiseWorking for his father delivering meat, he's as inept a driver as he is a boyfriend to a patient woman, pregnant with a child one child but he has many other problems...For the first half, David keeps a guardian angel eye on a handful of twenty-somethings trying to make a living in New York City: including a junky, a struggling actor, a street musician and a professional basketball player But once one particular kid latches on, in the form of an annoying young man named Viggo, the movie goes to pot Or perhaps it was there alreadyChris Pratt plays Brett, a child-consumed single dad who's not only David's best friend but also his lawyer And while Pratt tries way too hard to provide dry humor throughout, his performance is as lethargic as the second half of DELIVERY MAN, an uneven comedy immersed in hipster schlock rock and, once David faces his ultimate (predictable) dilemma, balancing a financial payoff and the love of his new family, the movie not only tugs at the heartstrings but yanks them out entirely..
Anyways, the premise of the two films directed by Ken Scott is the same, it tells the story of an affable underachiever named David Wozniak, this time played by Vince Vaughn, who finds out he's fathered over 500 children through anonymous donations to a fertility clinic 20 years ago.
End-product: a movie that is neither new or funny, and mind-numbingAlso, as soon as they're introduced, you will feel like Vince Vaughn and Chris Pratt should have played each other's roles instead of their own.Everything that occurs is predictable, and awful.
Delivery Man (2013): Dir: Ken Scott / Cast: Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt, Cobie Smulders, Andzej Blumenfeld, Simon Delaney: The title is about the most creative element of this film, and that is usually a bad sign.
His girlfriend comes around and it ends on a good note of a large and involved family and his debt to the mob payed off.This movie is a remake of a French Canadian film named "Starbuck" and Vaughn's character was originally played by the actor who gave a flawless silent version of his disabled son in this remake.