10 Finished Movies That Disappeared Without A Trace

2. I Love You, Daddy

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Even before being tanked by the sexual misconduct of its creator, it was in questionable taste to make a movie homage to the classic films of Woody Allen that also engaged with Allen's well-known predilection for much younger women; all with former Hit Girl Chloe Grace Moretz as the fuelled-by-daddy-issues jailbait daughter of said creator's self-insert character.

Before he was best known for exposing himself to women behind closed doors, Louis CK developed a reputation for baring his own frailties in provocatively funny stand-up routines and his semi-autobiographical sitcom.

But the blurring of real life and art was too much in this film about CK's complex admiration for Allen, a man himself frequently accused of being a sexual predator, given the accusations that were about to come out about Louis himself.

I Love You, Daddy got a mixed reception on its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017, but a week before its wider release that November the movie was pulled by distributors The Orchard due to "unexpected circumstances". These circumstances were soon revealed to be CK's history of sexual harassment of female comedians.

Following The Orchard dropping the movie, CK purchased the rights for himself, but he has not decided to release I Love You, Daddy for general audiences.

Moretz, for her part, has outright stated that this movie's perspective is not one "that needs to be told in this day and age", saying that she regrets the project and would prefer it to "just kind of go away".

 
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