- Comedy, Drama
- 101 min
- PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes95%Metacritic70IMDb7.5
Lily Trevino unexpectedly befriends an online stranger who shares her self-centered father’s name. This new Bob Trevino’s support could transform her life.
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- The Fixate & Binge Podcast, w/ Joe Curdyon TMDB · Jul 202610/10
It's okay to cry in this movie. I know I certainly did. And I'm not ashamed. Writer and director Tracie Laymon's semiautobiographical film **BOB TREVINO LIKES IT** is a moving story about father/daughter relationships and the search for meaningful connections. Barbie Ferreira plays Lily Trevino, a single, 20-something carrying years of emotional baggage, suppressed under her people-pleasing smile and easy-going demeanor. French Stewart (who is galaxies away from his 3rd Rock From the Sun days) plays sexagenarian Robert Trevino, father to Lily, a self-absorbed and insecure man who clearly is a toxic influence on his daughter's life. When Lily upsets her father's unreasonable expectations of her, she mistakenly befriends someone on Facebook who shares her father's name -- Bob Trevino (played by John Leguizamo in what could be a career-best). What starts out as a case of mistaken identity, soon blossoms into a genuine friendship between Lily and her surrogate new father, Bob. **BOB TREVINO LIKES IT** is not a story of Catfishing -- but rather an uplifting example of genuine friendship and no-strings attached kindness. So rare a thing is the theme of kindness (which, according to James
Read the whole review on TMDB - Hosseinon TMDB · May 20257/10
I believe that we humans need someone to believe in us. This movie shows the story of a girl who has always been deprived of that person, and suddenly finds that person. It's a nice movie and worth watching once.
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Cast
- Barbie FerreiraLily Trevino
- John LeguizamoBob Trevino
- French StewartRobert
- Lauren 'Lolo' SpencerDaphne
- Rachel Bay JonesJeanie
- Debra StipeHelene
- Ashlyn MooreCounselor
- Phil ElamAdmin
- Tony MilderInspector
- Ted WelchHarlan
Crew
- Tracie LaymonDirector
- Tracie LaymonWriter
- John RosarioDirector of Photography
- Jacques BrautbarOriginal Music Composer
- Anisha AcharyaEditor
- Sean MullinProducer
- Tracie LaymonProducer
- Edgar RosaProducer
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