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- Bad Parents is a dark satire about a so-called epidemic we're all likely to have seen or heard about: the hyper-competitive sports parents. You know, the ones who relentlessly pressure their kids to succeed, live vicariously through their successes, and have no concept of healthy rivalries.
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- Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Everything Everywhere All at Once is a film riddled with powerful parenting truths. Immigrant mother, Evelyn Wang, is tasked with saving the world from multiverse dangers.
- Bad Moms (2016) Despite being a wacky comedy, Bad Moms shows the importance of not conforming to societal expectations for mothers. Amy is 32 years old, raising two children and, basically, her husband.
- The Kids Are Alright (2010) The Kids Are Alright is one of the first movies to feature a same-sex couple raising a family, as they deal with their children wanting to meet their biological father.
- Lady Bird (2017) While Lady Bird presents itself as a coming-of-age story, its love story between mother and daughter is its true core. Within the first five minutes, viewers get their first glimpse into the pair's relationship, which, while tumultuous, isn't hateful.
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After losing his other kids and his wife, clown-fish Marlin (Albert Brooks) is extremely overprotective of his only surviving son, Nemo (Alexander Gould), who has one fin that’s shorter than the other, making it difficult for him to swim. Nemo is frustrated by his overbearing father and decides to swim close to the surface to prove that he can do a...
Dark and sad, this movie isn’t a happy one. But it is powerful. A woman (Brie Larson) was kidnapped as a young teenager and held in an impossibly small, soundproof space for years. During that time, she gives birth to a son, Jack (Jacob Tremblay), and to help him survive she personifies their cage — along with everything else in it — as “Room” so h...
This show is absolutely emotional warfare, but it’s worth every minute. Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca (Mandy Moore) are a young couple who find themselves pregnant with triplets. Through flashbacks, we see where the various members of the Pearson family came from, which helps us understand where they are now and where they’re going. This Is U...
Kate Armstrong (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is a formidable chef whose sole focus is on her work. But when her sister dies, she becomes the guardian of her young niece (Abigail Breslin). Kate must learn how to find happiness outside of work and become a good parent to her niece, while also finding romance.
American teenager Daphne (Amanda Bynes) has always longed to know her father, but she’s never met him. Before she heads off for college, she impulsively goes to England. But her father isn’t an ordinary guy. He’s the wealthy Lord Henry Dashwood (Colin Firth), who’s running for Parliament. And ... he didn’t know Daphne existed. Henry tries to bond w...
This comedy is a perfect watch for the whole family. When Charlie (Eddie Murphy) gets laid off, he has to stay home taking care of his son. With his wife, Kim (Regina King), bringing in all the money, Charlie and his friend Phil (Jeff Garlin) decide to open up their own day-care center, staffed only by men. They’re on their way to becoming very suc...
Streaming on Amazon Prime What a classic musical. Annie (Aileen Quinn) is in an orphanage ruled by the absolutely horrid Miss Hannigan (Carol Burnett). Annie has total faith that her parents left her in the orphanage by accident and that one day she will be reunited with them. A wealthy man named Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks (Albert Finney) is strugglin...
This endearingly awkward movie is about a lonely middle-aged man (Ed Helms) who decides to use a surrogate to have a child. A strange but beautiful relationship forms between him and the surrogate, and they start to reflect on the concepts of family, friendship, love, and boundaries.
Matilda (Mara Wilson) was born different, into a family that neglects and under-appreciates her terribly. She finds solace in books — which she reads at an extremely advanced level — the care of her new teacher, Ms. Honey (Embeth Davidtz), and some pretty cool magical powers. But her headmaster, the tyrannical Miss Trunchbull (Pam Ferris), tortures...
Stef (Teri Polo) and Lena (Sherri Saum) are two gay moms who have built a beautiful family with Stef’s biological son, Brandon (David Lambert), and their adopted twins, Mariana (Cierra Ramirez) and Jesus (Noah Centineo). Even though they have a full house, they take in troubled teen Callie (Maia Mitchell) and her younger brother, Jude (Hayden Byerl...
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- Mary and Carl Jones — Precious. Precious is an emotionally poignant film about a downtrodden and abused teenage girl whose life is turned around when she decides to strive to become a teacher.
- Jack — The Shining. While some may argue that Jack’s "bad parenting" in The Shining was a result of some sort of supernatural possession, he was never a good father, and his behavior in the hotel was merely a manifestation of that trait, albeit a rather extreme one.
- Corrine Dollanganger — Flowers in the Attic. This 1987 adaptation of V. C. Andrews' 1979 novel of the same name (which was again adapted in 2014) features a double whammy: a terrible mother and an even worse grandmother.
- Darth Vader — Star Wars. Darth Vader is one of the world’s most well-known and renowned villains of all time. His sheer evilness was compounded by the fact that in The Empire Strikes Back it was revealed that he is Luke Skywalker’s father.
Nov 18, 2015 · Jack Torrance (The Shining, 1980) Nicholson’s ultra-psychotic performance is one of the most fearsome displays of unhinged parenting ever committed to film. Just check out Nicholson’s extraordinary “ axe murder warm up” on YouTube if you need further proof.
- The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) It is a movie that is synonymous to the feeling of being a Parent. ‘ Pursuit of Happyness’ is not just about the struggles of a man trying to achieve his dreams, it is also about a man teaching his son to do the same.
- Boyhood (2014) The film that literally captures the childhood and adolescence of Ellar Coltrane is a sheer masterpiece. It depicts the journey of Mason Jr (Ellar Coltrane) and his relationship with his mother and the ever-changing families.
- Somewhere (2010) While Sofia Coppola is better known for ‘Lost in Translation’, one mustn’t forget that she also directed an equally beautiful film called ‘Somewhere’.
- Room (2015) To an extent, the initial portions of ‘Room’ are harrowing to watch, but what follows after is an overwhelming tale of escape, surprise, discovery, mourning, and reawakening.
Oct 7, 2014 · The Simpsons Movie (2007) Granted, it made for a cracker sequence on screen but daring your son to skateboard through town in the nip is arguably a bad parenting technique. 5. Matilda (1996) That girl is far too young to be making pancakes on her own. 4. All Adopted Guardians Ever Represented In Children’s’ Films Ever.
Quite frankly, there are many, many great films that have been made about troubled childhoods and as a result plenty of good films dealing with the topic have not been included.
