Dad's Week Off is a television film that premiered on Showtime in 1997. It was written and directed by Neal Israel

Neal Israel

Neal Israel is an American actor, screenwriter, film and television producer and director best known for his comedic work in the 1980s.-Career:...

, and starred Henry Winkler

Henry Winkler

Henry Franklin Winkler, OBE is an American actor, director, producer, and author.Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days...

, Olivia d'Abo

Olivia d'Abo

Olivia d'Abo is an English actress and singer-songwriter, best known for portraying Karen Arnold in The Wonder Years and Nicole Wallace, the recurring villain in Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Acting career:...

 and Richard Jeni

Richard Jeni

Richard John Colangelo , better known by the stage name of Richard Jeni, was an American stand-up comedian and actor.-Early life:...

.

Plot

A computer salesman charged with marketing a tiny computer that no one can operate, faces hypertension when he realizes that there is no way to sell the product and he is likely to lose his job. So he can get some rest, his wife offers to take their two kid's camping for a week. When his fellow salesman and best friend is fired and thrown out of his house by his wife, he moves in and immediately starts unending parties, which ultimately ends up the house on fire and Winkler arrested on multiple charges. In between, in a drug-induced stupor, he gets mixed up with a ditzy blonde who wants to marry him, and rescue her child from being raised by her parents.

Cast

• Henry Winkler
  Henry Winkler
  Henry Franklin Winkler, OBE is an American actor, director, producer, and author.Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days...
  
   - Jack Potter
• Olivia d'Abo
  Olivia d'Abo
  Olivia d'Abo is an English actress and singer-songwriter, best known for portraying Karen Arnold in The Wonder Years and Nicole Wallace, the recurring villain in Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Acting career:...
  
   - Cherice
• Richard Jeni
  Richard Jeni
  Richard John Colangelo , better known by the stage name of Richard Jeni, was an American stand-up comedian and actor.-Early life:...
  
   - Bernie
• Justin Louis
  Justin Louis
  Luís Ferreira is a Portuguese-born Canadian actor...
  
   - Chip
• Ken Pogue
  Ken Pogue
  Ken Pogue is a Canadian actor.He is married to the actress Diana Barrington. His first motion picture role in 1973 was in The Neptune Factor. He almost drowned in SCUBA gear. He worked at the Stratford Festival and St. Lawrence Centre in the 1960s through 1980s before moving to television and film...
  
   - Emmett Sharpel
• Wendel Meldrum
  Wendel Meldrum
  Wendel Anne Meldrum is a Canadian actress best known for her roles of Leslie the "low talking" clothing designer from the 1993 Seinfeld episode The Puffy Shirt, and school teacher, Miss White, on The Wonder Years....
  
   - Lew
• Don S. Davis
  Don S. Davis
  Don Sinclair Davis PhD was an American character actor, theatre professor, painter and captain in the United States Army.-Career:He was perhaps best known for playing General George S...
  
   - Hank
• Colleen Winton - Gayle Sharpel
• Miguelito Macario Andaluz - Lew
• Yee Jee Tso
  Yee Jee Tso
  Yee Jee Tso is a Canadian actor.His television roles include Sliders , and the 1996 Doctor Who telemovie, in which he played the character Chang Lee...
  
   - Kea
• Jerry Wasserman
  Jerry Wasserman
  Jerry Wasserman is an American film and television actor.Wasserman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.Wasserman is currently working his role in Alien Trespass stated in post-production and Watchmen, released in March 2009....
  
   - Detective
• Christine Willes
  Christine Willes
  Christine Willes is a Canadian television, theatre and film actress who is best known for her roles as Delores Herbig on the Showtime comedy-drama Dead Like Me and Gladys the DMV demon on the CW supernatural drama television series Reaper...
  
   - Alice
• Adrian Hughes - Brother #2, Bob
• John R. Taylor - Minister
• Will Sasso
  Will Sasso
  William "Will" Sasso is a Canadian comedian and actor. He is most notable for his membership in the recurring cast of comedians on the American sketch comedy series MADtv, spending five seasons on the show.-Early life:...
  
   - Pete
• Laurie McLay - Pauline
• Mark Acheson
  Mark Acheson
  Mark Acheson is a Canadian actor, who works for the Ocean Group Company. He was the narrator in Transformers: Energon, and also voiced Unicron in Transformers: Armada, including the voice of Crumplezone in Transformers: Cybertron...
  
   - Sobbing Man
• Robert Frederick - Sandy the Lawyer
• Michael Kopsa
  Michael Kopsa
  Michael Kopsa is a Canadian voice, film, television and stage actor, notable for his role as Char Aznable in the English dub of Mobile Suit Gundam and for his role as Commander Volcott O'Huey in Galaxy Angel. He has also provided the voice of Beast in X-Men: Evolution...
  
   - Cop
• Lossen Chambers - Lolita
• Fred Henderson
  Fred Henderson
  Fred Henderson is a Canadian voice actor who works for Ocean Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He has played several roles in anime, most notably Ulen Hibiki in Gundam Seed and Colonel Todaka in Gundam Seed Destiny.- Anime roles :...
  
   - Doctor
• Eric Pospisil - Nicholas
• Kaitlyn Burke
  Kaitlyn Burke
  Kaitlyn Burke is a Canadian basketball player currently playing for the University of Nebraska. Her sister Ashley played basketball at Gonzaga, and her brother Sean plays basketball for Simon Fraser University.-University of Nebraska:In her sophomore year , Burke became a part-time starter for the...
  
   - Rebecca
• Patrick Pon - Fang Leader
• Don MacKay
  Don Mackay
  Donald Mackay is a Scottish former professional football player and manager.-As player:He was a goalkeeper and played for Forfar Athletic and made 104 appearances. He was then signed for Dundee United by Jerry Kerr, for whom he made 170 appearances...
  
   - Mr. Mendelson
• Charles Siegel - Sam
• Ernie Prentice - Old Golf Man
• April Telek
  April Telek
  -Early life and career:Telek was born and raised on the North Shore of Vancouver, British Columbia. In Japan she pursued her modeling career and won a Shiseido Cosmetics contract for Asia from 1989-1990. In April 1994 she won the title of Miss Canada and represented Canada in several International...
  
  - Bikini Girl