A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.
Dad - Papà, Папа, Mi padre, Mon père, Drága papa, Meu Pai, Uma Lição de Vida, 아버지의 황혼, Tato, 晩秋, Táta, El meu pare, 吾爱吾父, Тато
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Most of the Dead Poets Society boys went on a day trip to NYC together during a break from filming to audition for this film. Ethan Hawke obviously ended up getting the part. If you haven't seen the marvelous footage of that trip, here you go: youtu.be/y1eOYkQpifk. Much more enjoyable than this film.
DEEP in my Ethan Hawke phase
For some reason I thought this was about Ethan Hawke having two dads and I'm disappointed to learn that it isn't
THIS is the movie the dead poets tried so hard for???? THIS??????
i was only here to see if ethan hawke actually said yo dad
ethan hawke was so pretty in this
"Dying is not a sin. Not living is."
The infamous “Yo, dad!” movie from the 'Dead Poets in NY' video. Ethan does give his best “Yo, dad!”, but that doesn't make up for how much I ended up sobbing.
While it would be great to buy a three-bedroom house in southern California on a blue-collar wage today, the fact that many issues regarding parent and child relationships and gender roles discussed in Dad (among the middle class) are now dated is definitely a positive. Having devoted so much of his life to social expectations of providing for his family, 78-year-old Jack lacks excitement and a relationship with his two adult children. The opportunity to bond with his son, John (Danson), comes calling after our lead's wife suffers a heart attack. While non-fatal, his wife's illness and incapacitation leave Jack a bit helpless. The first half of this film explores how men of the older protagonist's generation often lacked the…
not enough ethan hawke
Fragile White Masculinity: The Motion Picture. Successful executive Ted Danson must struggle with his aging father and his detached teenage son!
Reagan-era audiences likely ate it up and cried their eyes out, but by modern standards this is treacly, inconsequential, and not particularly engaging. The Oscar-nominated makeup further ages Olympia Dukakis and an already 74-year-old Jack Lemmon; Dick Smith and company have all done better work.
35/100
you're my dad! boogie woogie woogie
I must have seen this once as a kid, but I don't remember it well. Having just seen it again on cable, I can see why it's not memorable or even well-respected. It's relentlessly sentimental; Gary David Goldberg is practically reaching out through your TV screen and yanking the tears right from your eye ducts. "Cry, dammit, cry!"
But what a cast, and what remarkable performances. Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Kevin Spacey, Olympia Dukakis and Kathy Baker all manage to find some very touching and relatable elements about parents and children, and how our dynamics change as we all get older. There's a lot of truth to Dad, and I think it's well worth the slog through the manipulative tears to get there.
