Raising his niece Mary, a child prodigy and spirited child, Frank Adler plans to give her a normal childhood - this is what his sister would want. But those plans are foiled when her mathematical abilities come to the attention of the…
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Movie Dads
Check out this great selection of films featuring the best dads and dad figures. (For adults)
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- Based on the friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod, who is assigned to profile America's most beloved neighbor.
- A loving father must keep it together, as he helps plans his daughter's lavish wedding.
- Lives are turned upside down when three bachelors living in NYC find a baby on their doorstep.
- A hardworking father enlists the help of a highly successful attorney to help gain custody of his three daughters from his treacherous ex-wife and her boyfriend.
- A rough-edged father pays tribute to his gay son by embarking on a walk across America, speaking out to adults and students about the horrifying truths of bullying. Based on a true story.
Life Is Beautiful
La Vita È Bella
1930s Guido, a Jewish waiter with spirit and humor, wins the heart of the woman he loves and creates a beautiful life for his young family. As WWII descends, Guido must reply on those same strengths to protect his beloved wife and son from…- A magical story about a farmer who hears voices instructing him to construct a baseball field on his farmland. In doing so, the spirit of dead baseball players emerges from the surrounding cornfield to play.
- The story of three young men growing up in South Central LA, all with different backgrounds. But their reactions to the world around them vary-- one is an unambitious drug dealer, his brother is a college-bound teenage father, and the…
- When two fathers find themselves out of work, they start a daycare to make ends meet. When their business starts to take off, the head of a competing academy tries to put them out of business.
- A prisoner is granted a furlough in hopes of persuading his estranged son, the country's top high school basketball player, to attend the governor's alma mater.
- Walter is left with his eccentric uncles, Garth and Hub, two mysterious old men who take up the role of surrogate father figures, taking him on an adventure he'll never forget.
- With no custody of his kids, an out-of-work divorced father disguises himself as an old Scottish nanny to get employed by his ex-wife in order to see his children.
- When his Seventeen-year-old daughter and best friend are kidnapped in France, Father Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA agent, travels to Paris to find them and seek revenge.
- Striving to become the best stepdad to his wife's two children becomes complicated when their father arrives, forcing him to compete for the kids' affection.
- Deep in the forest of the Pacific Northwest, a devoted father dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. When they are forced to leave this paradise, the outside world challenges his idea of what…
- Chris Gardner dreams of becoming a stockbroker, struggling through homelessness and overall despair with his son, he eventually overcomes it to become a stockbroker and millionaire. Based on an inspiring true story.
- The Clark family wins a deluxe European Vacation. The devoted father plans a vacation jammed packed with family togetherness. But nothing runs smoothly for the Clark family, no matter how much he plans!
- A feel-good story that follows siblings and their families over the course of a summer.
- When NASA discovers a doomsday asteroid in collision with Earth, a crew of roughneck oil drillers is sent to plant a nuclear warhead on it.
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