Dad's Choice: Top 5 Inspiring Movies About Parenthood
Being a dad is one of the hardest and the most amazing things in the world. Parenting is a complex yet fulfilling process. Sometimes it is useful to look at the situation from the outside to realize and correct your mistakes. Hopefully, as a Dad, you will like movies on this list.
"Gifted", 2017
"Gifted" is a movie about the destructive power of parental narcissism. The movie revolves around Francis "Frank" Adler, who raises his seven-year-old gifted niece Mary Adler (Mckenna Grace). His mother, and Mary's grandmother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) a narcissist. Failing to become successful in her home country, Evelyn once went to the United States, where she gave birth to a daughter, Diana, who has a remarkable ability in mathematics, and a son, Frank.
The mother tried to make her daughter make math her only interest in life and solve one of the problems of the millennium - the Navier-Stokes equation. Through her efforts, the mother drove her daughter to suicide when she had a six-month-old baby in her arms. Mary, like her mother, is a mathematical genius, and the ambitious Evelyn wants to do everything to make her granddaughter a famous mathematician and glorify her mother's name. Frank for his part cares about his daughter's wishes and does not want her to repeat her mother's fate. He fights with Evelyn for the right to guard his niece and wants to make her happy.
"August Rush", 2007
The story begins with the love of a cellist from a wealthy intellectual family and a charismatic young guitarist from Ireland. They fell in love but unfortunately had to part ways. This final meeting resulted in the birth of a boy Evan who ended up in an orphanage. Twelve years pass and Evan (Freddy Highmore) turns out to be a talented musician. He decides to play on the streets of New York so that one day he will be heard and found by his parents. The boy takes the pseudonym August Rush, and he is always accompanied by a mysterious stranger who helps the teenager to survive in this cruel world and not despair. This drama isn't a light movie to binge-watch after playing Winmaster, but "August Rush" is worth a watch.
"Stars On Earth" (Original title: "Taare Zameen Par"), 2007
At the center of unfolding events is an eight-year-old boy Ishaan Awasthi (Darsheel Safary). From a very young age, he was different from the rest of the children. What everyone learns with ease, he is given with great difficulty. The world around him simply cannot understand this child, and neither can his parents. The boy fails the school entrance exam for the third time, and his father and mother think that he is just looking for excuses not to study. Ishaan ends up in a boarding school, where he suffers from misunderstanding and loneliness. The only one who understands him is his art teacher Nikumbh, brilliantly played by Aamir Khan. He becomes a friend of the child and decides to change Ishan's life and show him the whole world.
"I Am Sam", 2007
The main character of the picture is Sam Dawson (Sean Penn). In his forties, he has the intelligence of a seven-year-old child, and with such data, he has a hard time. But he gets a job as a waiter, and life seems to be getting better, if it were not for one unexpected circumstance. He learns that as a result of a passing infatuation and a casual connection became a father.
The man realizes that he loves his daughter Lucy (Dakota Fanning) with all his heart, and Sam even has a great way to bring her up. However, the employees of social services consider otherwise and take the child away from Dawson. Sam is determined to get his daughter back and finds a lawyer. Rita Harrison (Michelle Pfeiffer) takes on the case and in the course of working on it herself begins to realize how difficult it is to be a parent. Viewers are left to find out whether Sam will return his beloved Lucy, as well as how his relationship with his newfound girlfriend Rita will develop.
"Dead Poets Society", 1989
The events of the picture unfold in a conservative American college, which has strict rules. There are only boys here, and they are taught not only the basic sciences but also the culture of speech and behavior, as well as traditions, many of which have already become outdated. But a new teacher appears at the school - John Keating (Robin Williams). He is very different from the rest of the teachers'. Surprised and unaccustomed to such methods, the students gradually become attached to John. He, in turn, initiates the boys into membership in a secret organization with a strange name "Dead Poets Society". And here they teach not only poetry. Keating strives to show his students how to live life to the fullest, to enjoy every moment of it, to defend their point of view, and to look at the world around them, pushing the usual established boundaries and limits.