About My Father Director Interview: Laura Terruso on Why Comedy Is Best Seen With An Audience

We already know that About My Father is a personal film for Sebastian Maniscalco, and it serves as a love letter to his father Salvo Maniscalco, who in the film is played by Robert de Niro, but what I also found extremely fascinating while doing my research for the film was just how personal the film was to its director, Laura Terruso, who looks at the film as a love-letter to her own Silician mother. Knowing this, it’s now incredibly easy to see why Maniscalco entrusted Terruso with directing his first film as a leading man. Comedies don’t come around on the big screen very often anymore, especially in the post-COVID era, but this summer looks to have a variety of promising titles alongside About My Father including No Hard Feelings, Strays, The Machine, and Joy Ride. Teruso previously directed the Netflix comedy Work It as well as the indie films Good Girls Get High and Fits and Starts, but About My Father will mark her first comedy to receive a wide release in theaters. About My Father opens