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Dad's Money (Baba Parası)

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Movie · 2020 · 9 people

A family inheritance becomes a free-for-all in Baba Parası (English title Dad's Money), a Turkish comedy from 2020. Selçuk Aydemir both directed the film and wrote its screenplay, and the leads are Ahmet Kural and Murat Cemcir, a comic duo. It drew about 1.87 million admissions and over 31 million lira at the box office.

The story begins when one of the country's richest men dies and a group of sharply contrasting people learn that they are his illegitimate children and legal heirs: one rich, one poor, a professor, an ignoramus, a villager, a city dweller, some Christian and some Muslim. The whole fortune will go to just one of them, the child who is as greedy, cunning and ruthless as the father, and the money sits behind a giant safe whose code must first be cracked. The film plays the race to open it as a comedy about how far people will go for money. Besides Kural and Cemcir, the cast includes Yağmur Tanrısevsin, Rasim Öztekin, Devrim Yakut, Özgür Emre Yıldırım, Deniz Barut, Giray Altınok, Osman Alkaş, Ayhan Taş and Demir Karahan.

Cemcir also produced, with Necati Kocabay and Furkan Yeşilnur. The music was composed by Gürsoy Tanç, and the cinematography team included Ferhat Uzundağ and Alaaddin Kaya.

DirectorSelçuk Aydemir

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Ahmet Kural Ahmet Kural Actor · 43 years old Selim Murat Cemcir Murat Cemcir Actor · 49 years old Niyazi Yağmur Tanrısevsin Yağmur Tanrısevsin Actor · 36 years old Tülin Rasim Öztekin Rasim Öztekin Actor · died at 62 Saffet Devrim Yakut Devrim Yakut Actor · 58 years old Yakut Özgür Emre Yıldırım Özgür Emre Yıldırım Actor · 43 years old Osman Alkaş Osman Alkaş Actor · 71 years old Giray Altınok Giray Altınok Film actor · 42 years old Watchman Deniz Barut Deniz Barut Film actor · 43 years old

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History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Baba Parası's premise works like a cross-section of society: rich and poor, a professor and an uneducated man, villagers and city dwellers, Christians and Muslims learn they are children of the same father and meet over the same inheritance. That idea is a strong chance to seat different parts of Türkiye at one table. The film, however, mostly handles these differences through exaggerated types; they raise a smile but struggle to become social observation. What it really says is more universal: how far people will go when money is at stake. In that sense it is an entertaining fable about greed, though it does not make full use of its rich material.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

There is a giant safe, a code to crack and a crowd of siblings going at each other. Built like a proper race-against-the-clock film, this could have been a real thrill. The race for the safe gives the film a clear goal, and the big cast keeps scenes moving. But it leans on the characters' gags more than on tension. If you like Kural and Cemcir you will laugh; if you want excitement, it only half delivers.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Siblings who never knew about each other, chasing an inheritance... The subject recalls the sweet chaos of the old family comedies. Baba Parası, however, does not look for those films' tenderness; it prefers a louder, more exaggerated kind of humour. As the siblings turn on one another, what surfaces is ambition rather than affection. Seasoned performers such as Rasim Öztekin and Devrim Yakut lend weight to their scenes, yet the story's moral centre, its critique of how far people will go for money, gets somewhat lost among the laughs. It amuses, but it leaves no lasting mark.

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