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When unemployed law-school dropout Sonny answers his flat door, he is confronted with Julian, the heretofore unknown five-year-old son of Sonny’s absent roommate, Kevin. Julian’s mother is dying, and she wants Julian to be raised by his father rather than a foster home. Sonny pretends to be Kevin. He manages to trick social services into leaving Julian with him. For a short time, Sonny raises Julian as his own son. Eventually, though, social services discovers the ruse. They take Julian from Sonny. Although Sonny petitions the court to get Julian back, the court warns Sonny that he is in danger of criminal prosecution. Sonny is saved when Kevin acknowledges that Julian is his son. Kevin will raise Julian. Sonny is able to stay in Julian’s life in an uncle-like role.
The Adoption Connection
For a short time, Sonny functions as an adoptive father to Julian. At one point, Sonny tries to convince his girlfriend that she has also, unwittingly, become an adoptive parent to Julian. The girlfriend quickly breaks up with him.
Strong Points
Sonny does love Julian and encourages Julian to face his fears. Kevin, Julian’s father, ultimately acknowledges his responsibility as a dad.
Sonny promises Julian that, although he can’t be his dad, he’ll always “be your friend… your family. And I’ll always be around.”
Weak Points
In his own words, Sonny tries “to adopt a child to fix a troubled relationship, such as a lady getting pregnant.” Not a good motivation for adoption! When his relationship ends, he tries to use Julian to pick up girls in a park.
Recommendations
In a way, Julian is almost adopted by his sort-of foster family before being reunified with his birth parent, and a short time later, foster and actual father remain positively involved in his life. That is actually a best-case scenario for children in foster care. So Big Daddy might be an interesting movie for prospective foster parents to see prior to taking in children. For children who have been adopted from foster care, the movie could be hard for them because, in the end, Julian gets to go home. The movie will probably appeal most to teens.
