Delaney delivers in big-budget US film

The conceit of the film Delivery Man is outrageous but credible. Twenty years after donating sperm, David Wozniak discovers he’s the father of 533 children, 142 of whom have filed a lawsuit to learn his identity.

David, played by Vince Vaughn, is a 40-year-old slacker: he’s unmotivated in his job as a deliveryman for his family’s butcher business; the mob is leaning on him for an unpaid debt; and his girlfriend is pregnant (and doesn’t want him to be the father).

“It is impossible to be the father of 533 children,” David shrieks to his best friend and lawyer. “It is impossible to be the father of four children,” the friend deadpans in response, wearing a shabby dressing gown while packing his children’s school lunches.