The Wildly Inappropriate Disney Movie People Forget Existed It’s hard to believe a movie like My Father the Hero ever slipped into the Disney catalog, but in 1994 it did — and it made $45 million doing it. The film follows 14-year-old Nicole, played by a young Katherine Heigl, as she heads on vacation with her divorced father, André, a kind but awkward Frenchman portrayed by Gérard Depardieu. At their tropical resort, Nicole becomes infatuated with an older teenage boy. Instead of simply trying