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Dad (1989)

Starring: Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson Director: Gary David Goldberg Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Baker, Kevin Spacey
  • Directors: Gary David Goldberg
  • Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Studio: Universal Studios
  • DVD Release Date: May 31, 2005
  • Run Time: 118 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0007QJ1W0
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #9,588 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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William Wharton's startling and moving novel about fathers and sons got an above-average film adaptation from TV's Gary David Goldberg, who wrote and directed. While the film couldn't capture the sadness and wonder of Wharton's worlds-within-worlds construct, it did get exactly right the notion of how one closes the distance from a parent or a child. Danson plays an ambitious businessman forced to put work aside to care for his aging parents (Jack Lemmon and Olympia Dukakis) when his mother is hospitalized. Mom, it turns out, is a domineering dictator who has stifled Dad all these years; with her out of the way, Dad suddenly recognizes the possibilities of his own life. Meanwhile, Danson's estranged son, Ethan Hawke, comes home as well, allowing the two of them a rapprochement. Lemmon is particularly good (and almost unrecognizable). --Marshall Fine


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A busy executive learns during a meeting that his father may be dying and rushes home to his side. He ends up being his fathers caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. In the process he teaches his father to be more independent which causes problems with the mans wife. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/31/2005 Starring: Jack Lemmon Kevin Spacey Run time: 117 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Gary David Goldberg

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5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely One of My Favorite Movies, September 27, 2001
By Martha Moore (Johnson City, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dad [VHS] (VHS Tape)
"Dad" is definitely one of the most touching movies I have ever seen. I have seen this movie several times, and every time I cry at the end! The son lives far away and is so obsessed with work that he has not been home to see his elderly parents much in recent years. When his mother is unexpectedly taken ill, he comes home and is shocked to see how his father has gone down under the overprotective eye of his domineering mother. John, the son, starts teaching his father to be independent, at the same time rebuilding a good quality relationship with him. It is so touching later in the movie when his dad becomes ill and John dotes over him and refused to give up. This also inspires John to build a relationship with his own son, with whom he has not had much contact. I can relate to this story, as can anyone who has dealt with the illness and/or death of aging parents. I would recommend this movie to anyone, especially anyone who has dealt or is now having to deal with the aging and/or death of a parent. This movie puts a lot of things into perspective about aged parents and with dealing with the illness and death of a parent.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great and inspiring movie about elderly parents that is true!, February 3, 2007
By Frank Bianchi (brooklyn, ny USA) - See all my reviews
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I am presently going thru almost the exact same scenario in real life as this movie. I found it by accident early one morning after my mother had a rough night. For many moments, I felt like I was a character in this movie.

Although many reviewers say that these things do not happen the way they are depicted in the movie, I have almost the exact circumstances happening to me and my family right now.
(a) My mother's first hospital told us that she would need full leg amputations and then not survive. This hospital's parent hospital had a renowned specialist that had a procedure that saved my mother's life. Yes, my nephew and I had to find him and convince him to take my mother as a patient with no help from the first hospital (Thanks again Dr. McKinsey!!!).
(b) During the time my mother was in the hospitals (3 weeks), someone in our family was always with her, 24*7. I literally lived there during this time.
(c) I am a VP on Wall Street and took a leave of absence from work, going on 4 months now, to care for my mother and help her regain her health.

This movie made me feel that we are not alone in facing the challenges that make up the primary plot of Dad and that I am not a crack pot for the decisions that I made to help care for my mother.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely One of My Favorite Movies, September 27, 2001
By Martha Moore (Johnson City, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dad [VHS] (VHS Tape)
"Dad" is definitely one of the most touching movies I have ever seen. I have seen this movie several times, and every time I cry at the end! The son lives far away and is so obsessed with work that he has not been home to see his elderly parents much in recent years. When his mother is unexpectedly taken ill, he comes home and is shocked to see how his father has gone down under the overprotective eye of his domineering mother. John, the son, starts teaching his father to be independent, at the same time rebuilding a good quality relationship with him. It is so touching later in the movie when his dad becomes ill and John dotes over him and refuses to give up. This also inspires John to build a relationship with his own son. I can relate to this story, as can anyone who has dealt with the illness and/or death of aging parents. I would recommend this movie to anyone, especially anyone who has dealt or is now having to deal with the aging and/or death of a parent. This movie puts a lot of things into perspective about aged parents and with dealing with the illness and death of a parent.
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