Movies for Father’s Day

The day of the father is a good opportunity for parents and children remember the importance of family and the relationships between them. We can, therefore, take advantage of it to enjoy a movie together, which helps us understand each other better. Dramas and comedies characterize these stories both in film and in real life, and we want to make a selection of the most suitable for parents and children of all ages.

1. ‘NEBRASKA‘

Año: 2013. Director: Alexander Payne. Reparto: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk.

This film tells the story of an old man with symptoms of dementia who believes that he has won a large sum of money and is willing to travel to another state to collect it. He will drag his son along on that trip, convinced of the fraudulence of the award, but along the way they begin to regain a relationship that was broken.

2. ‘ I AM SAM ‘

Año: 2001. Director: Jessie Nelson. Reparto: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning.

This drama is a milestone in the career of Sean Penn, who excellently plays a single father with mental deficiencies who social services want to take custody of his daughter because she begins to be smarter than him at age 7. A hard and moving fight whose engine is the love between a father and his daughter . To cry on father’s day.

3. ‘ THE IMPOSSIBLE ‘

Year: 2012. Director: Juan Antonio Bayona . Cast: Ewan McGregor , Naomi Watts , Tom Holland , Oaklee Pendergast, Geraldine Chaplin.

The plot revolves around the story of a family that suffered a tsunami attack on their vacation in Asia, and of the struggle for survival and the reunion of their loved ones . Central to it is the father’s struggle to find part of his lost family, sometimes having to get away from some of his children to do so. Many have wept over the scenes starring Ewan McGregor and his sons.

4. ‘ EVERYONE IS FINE ‘

Año: 2009. Director: Kirk Jones. Reparto: Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore.

A perfect film for parents whose children are now adults and already have their lives made far from the nest. Robert De Niro is a widower who, after being unable to hold a meeting with his children at home, decides himself to undertake a long journey to visit them in their respective cities. This will be a point of reflection and recovery of relationships, distanced by focusing each on his life away from the family.

5. ‘ LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL ‘

Year: 1998. Director: Roberto Benigni. Department: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini.

This classic film, winner of 3 Oscars, shows one of the greatest heroes in the history of cinema : a father dragged into a Nazi concentration camp with his family, and who will do everything possible to convince his young son that all that situation is nothing more than a game in which they can win a great prize, in addition to protecting their life at the cost of everything.

6. ‘ A GREAT DAD ‘

Año: 1999. Director: Dennis Dugan. Reparto: Adam Sandler, Cole y Dylan Sprouse, Kristy Swanson, Steve Buscemi.

Because not everything has to be dramas on Father’s Day, this comedy is one of the best remembered by Adam Sandler. This embodies a thirty-year-old who has never assumed responsibilities, but who ends up taking care of a 5-year-old boy and developing his fatherhood. Laughter is guaranteed .

7. ‘ BEGINNERS ‘

Year: 2012. Director: Mike Mills. Cast: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer , Mélanie Laurent .

The director of this film himself was inspired by his father to write it. After the death of his father, the protagonist (McGregor) reflects on the relationship they had and what he learned from him. And the fact is that the father left him a unique legacy: shortly after being a widower, he had made known his status as a homosexual and decided to live what was left of his life enjoying it without secrets. A story of acceptance, love, learning and hope , which the protagonist uses to face a new relationship with a girl.

8. ‘ KRAMER VERSUS KRAMER ‘

Año: 1979. Director: Robert Benton. Reparto: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry.

Surely our father has already seen this movie hundreds of times. With an exceptional cast and five Oscars, this story is a movie classic. After being abandoned by his wife and tasked with adjusting to caring for his son on his own while trying to maintain his high job status, Ted Kramer will have to fight to maintain custody of the child when the ex-wife claims it. Once again with legal problems, this film inspired the protagonist of I Am Sam to defend his ability to take care of his little girl.

9. ‘ FINDING NEMO ‘

Año: 2003. Director: Andrew Stanton. Reparto: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe.

This movie, one of the best rated by Pixar studios, is perfect to watch with your youngest children on Father’s Day. It tells how a widowed fish crossed the entire Pacific to find his son Nemo , who was unfortunately caught by a fisherman. The little fish was at a difficult age and was fed up with his father’s protection, but after this experience he realizes how important their relationship is.

10. ‘ MRS. DOUBTFIRE, DAD FOR LIFE ‘

Año: 1993. Director: Chris Columbus. Reparto: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan.

Finally, a new comic installment, which was a milestone for the children of its time, and will delight the whole family. Only Robin Williams could play this father, ready to disguise himself every day as an old lady to pretend to be the housekeeper of his ex-wife’s house and thus be close to his children.