Daddy's Girl (film)

Daddy's Girl is a 1996 film directed by Martin Kitrosser.

Plot Details

The film details the adoption of an eight-year-old girl named Jody (Gabrielle Boni) by a loving couple, Don (William Katt) and Barbara Mitchell (Michele Greene). Jody develops an obsession with her father and paranoia and jealousy about others spending time with him. This leads her to become psychopathic and so envious of his relationships with other people she sets out to remove these people from her father's life. Early in the movie, she kills her principal when the woman suggests that Jody may need to be placed in a state-run boarding school, where she will only see her father on weekends, because of her behavior problems. Jody tricks the principal into standing on a chair to retrieve a book from a high shelf, Jody then pushes the chair out from under her principal, and proceeds to tip the bookcase over onto her prostrate form. Later, after unsuccessfully trying to poison her grandmother, Jody suggests a game of hide-and-seek with her grandma. Intuitively, Jody places a cassette recording of her crying out for help in a potted plant at the base of the stairs. The grandma, already having ventured up the stairs after failing to find Jody on the first level, becomes alarmed when she hears Jody's cries and hurries to the threshold of the staircase, calling to Jody. Jody takes her carefully orchestrated opportunity to shove her grandma down the stairs, her frail bones splintering and breaking until she reaches the bottom. The grandmother survives the fall, but goes into a coma. She is later killed in the hospital when Jody sabotages her ventilator. Later, Jody kills her mother's friend, as Jody had overheard the friend advising her mother to divorce her father. During the course of the film, Jody's foster cousin, Karen (Roxana Zal), who has been staying with the family, becomes suspicious of the recent deaths in the area. She begins investigating Jody's past, and discovers that as a toddler, Jody witnessed the murder of her biological father by her biological mother, and that she had been removed from her previous foster home when her foster father was convicted of murder after his wife was killed by being pushed down the stairs in a manner suspiciously similar to that of Jody's recently deceased foster-grandmother. This causes Karen to alert social services. At the end of the film, Jody pushes her adoptive mother Barbara over the edge of a balcony, but this does not kill her mother. When the social worker arrives at Jody's home, Jody bashes his head with a heavy meat tenderizing mallet, killing him. Jody's father Don arrives home to find the body of the social worker, and his wife injured on the ground. Karen called 911 after finding the social worker's body. After seeing what she has done and disgusted at her mental derangement, Don refuses to comfort the crying, begging child. The movie closes with Jody crying that everyone is against her, wanting her father to love her and comfort her, but he does not.

External links

• Daddy's Girl (film) at the Internet Movie Database