''My Son Hunter'' is a film directed by

Robert Davi Robert John Davi (born 1953) is an American actor, singer and filmmaker. Over the course of his acting career, Davi has performed in more than 130 films. Among his most known roles are opera-singing heavy Jake Fratelli in ''The Goonies'' (1985), ...

and starring

Laurence Fox Laurence Paul Fox (born 1978) is a political activist and former actor, most well-known for playing the supporting role of DS James Hathaway in the British TV drama series '' Lewis'' from 2006 to 2015. A grandson of the actors Robin and Ange ...

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and John James. The film centers on

Hunter Biden Robert Hunter Biden (born February 4, 1970) is an American attorney who is the second son of U.S. President Joe Biden and his first wife Neilia Hunter Biden. He is also a hedge fund, venture capital, and private-equity fund investor who for ...

, the son of US president Joe Biden. In 2021,

Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of P ...

accused Hunter Biden of corruption. It is, according to ''

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''s Catherine Shoard, the "debut fiction attempt" of documentarians Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer. The film is being distributed by American far-right news website ''

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'',Multiple sources: * * * * * * * * * * * * and was released on September 7, 2022.

Synopsis

According to the British online newspaper ''

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'', the film centers on "allegations made by Trump allies" about Hunter Biden's foreign business deals. The producers stated that the film depicts the alleged "business dealings and lifestyle of Hunter Biden".

Cast

as Agent Hound, a secret service agent * John James as U.S. president Joe Biden *Emma Gojkovic as Grace "Kitty" Henderson * Franklin Ayodele as Tyrone *

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as Terence *Jay Lim as Ye Jianming *Ljubisa Milisic as

Mykola Zlochevsky Mykola Vladislavovich Zlochevsky ( uk, Микола Владиславович Злочевський; born 14 June 1966) is a Ukrainian oil and natural gas businessman, politician, and an oligarch. Zlochevsky was Minister of Ecology and Natu ...

*Sasa Djordjevic as

Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of D ...

*Donald Borza II as

Dinesh D'Souza Dinesh Joseph D'Souza (; born April 25, 1961) is an Indian-American right-wing political commentator, author, filmmaker, and conspiracy theorist. He has written over a dozen books, several of them ''New York Times'' best-sellers. In 2012, D' ...

*Dean Jones as Stephen Miller *Starr Jones as

Louie Gohmert Louis Buller Gohmert Jr. (; born August 18, 1953) is an American attorney, politician, and former jurist serving as the U.S. representative from Texas's 1st congressional district since 2005. Gohmert is a Republican and was part of the Tea P ...

*Nenad Herakovic as Devon Archer

Development and filming

Two conservative Irish filmmakers,

Ann McElhinney Ann McElhinney (born 1964) and Phelim McAleer (born 1967) are conservative Irish documentary filmmakers and ''New York Times'' best-selling authors. They have written and produced the political documentaries '' FrackNation'', '' Not Evil Just W ...

and Phelim McAleer, are developing the film while attempting to raise its budget. When the film was first announced, it introduced its attempt to raise 2.5 million dollars via a private crowdfunding site. Currently, the project has raised over 2.5 million dollars from crowdfunding on its official site. Pre-production started as early as February 2021 according to star

. The movie's crew includes

as director, and Phelim McAleer & Ann McElhinney as producers. Gina Carano, who will be playing a "world-weary" secret service agent in the film stated: "The script was instantly intriguing and side achingly hilarious to me, especially after being newly exposed to the political realm in 2020. Robert Davi is someone who reached out to me as soon as I was 'canceled' in Feb. 2021. I signed on in support of him and one of my favorite humans, Laurence Fox." Production began in October 2021 in Serbia, and lasted for four weeks. During filming John James, who portrayed Joe Biden, had an off-set injury and was rushed to the hospital, though he continued filming after treatment saying that "the show must go on".

Reception

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'' called the movie a "socially dangerous, ego-damaging, and down-right delicious exposé of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal".

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of ''

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'' said that the film "serves a muckraking, restorative function", and wrote: "Make no mistake, McAleer is polemical, but ''My Son Hunter'' doesn't condemn Hunter Biden so much as understand him and the nature of his offense — thus demonstrating the ultimate form of journalistic scruples." Charles Bramesco of ''

'' wrote: "Writing critically about a film like ''My Son Hunter'' feels kind of like sending the kid making fart noises from the back of the class to detention", and described the film as a "fiction-laced retelling of the Hunter Biden laptop nothingburger" and a "dank bog of paranoia and conspiracy theorizing that is the sophomore directorial effort from Robert Davi." Naomi Fry of ''

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'' called the film "an amateurish, often batshit, if very occasionally vulgarly amusing satire-cum-thriller-cum-melodrama-cum-propaganda-organ, which switches between modes with the head-spinning unexpectedness of a Surrealist cutup."

References

External links

* * {{Joe Biden Crowdfunded films Cultural depictions of Joe Biden Films shot in Serbia 2020s English-language films Hunter Biden Breitbart News