Fatherhood, but make it Cronenberg meets midlife crisis.
Amidst his wife’s flourishing career, a once hotshot director turned stay-at-home dad becomes convinced his hands are inexplicably shrinking. In a desperate search to re-enlarge his hands, he risks his family and sanity.
Acting
Steve Talley's unraveling is physically committed and genuinely upsetting.
Direction
Hoffman weaponizes domestic spaces — kitchens become uncanny valleys.
Practical Effects
Hand effects are tactile, wrong, and impossible to unsee.
Director
Aimee Hoffman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The hand effects used forced perspective with custom prosthetics, not CGI — Talley performed with his actual hands bound for several shots.
The title 'Dadda' deliberately echoes Dadaism's anti-art stance — this is a film about a failed artist rejecting his own domestic 'creation.'
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