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Eccentric actor Daniel Hillard is an amusing and caring father. But after a disastrous birthday party for his son, Daniel's wife Miranda draws the line and files a divorce. He can see his three children only once a week which doesn't sit well with him. Daniel also holds a job at a TV studio as a shi …pping clerk under the recommendation of his liason. But when Miranda puts out an ad for a housekeeper, Daniel takes it upon himself to make a disguise as a Scottish lady named Mrs Doubtfire. And Daniel must also deal with Miranda's new boyfriend Stu Dunemyer. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | comedy of errorscult film |
| Themes: | dysfunctional familydivorcejealousy |
| Mood: | affection |
| Locations: | san francisco californiacourtroombusswimming poolrestaurant |
| Characters: | divorce lawyersingle fatherex husband ex wife relationshipsingle motherlawyeractorfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | custody battleinterviewing a nannymale nannygender disguisetelevision hostdivorce attorneydivorce courtwanting a divorcemale actor playing a female characteractor playing female rolevoice actorfemale lawyerfancy restaurantchild's birthday partybirthday party …camera shot from inside refrigeratorreference to walter brennanreference to shelley wintersreference to julia childreference to shirley maclainethrowing something at someoneattempted muggingreference to nancy reagan12th birthdaypastry boxclothes on fireman in a swimsuitcourt rulingbirthday dinnertoy dinosaurchanging clotheslimevacuumingheimlich maneuverbirthday giftreference to mick jaggerinterior decoratorpepperreference to clint eastwoodcaught in a liescotchreference to gandhireference to oprah winfreygender bendercrossdresserfalse teethreference to mahatma gandhichild swearinglifting female in aircustodyfemale antagonistscottish accentimpersonatorponyreference to ronald reaganallergygay brothermale protagonistfamily reuniontransvestismfatherhoodquitting a jobfish tankvacuum cleanertween girlfruitassumed identitydragparenthoodnew jobirreverencenannysecret identitymakeupchild's point of viewimpostormisunderstandingremote controlimprovisationimpersonationblockbusterlifting someone into the airscene during opening creditsbabysitterbirthday cakeperiod in titlecross dressingobscene finger gestureprofanitybraceletjudgedisguisesoccertelevisionpartytitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingcharacter name in titlebased on novel (See All) |
Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor with an impossible reputation. In order to find work and fund his friend's play he dresses as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands the part in a daytime drama. Dorsey loses himself in this woman role and essentially becomes Dorothy Michaels, captivating women al …l around the city and inspiring them to break free from the control of men and become more like Dorsey's initial identity. This newfound role, however, lands Dorsey in a hot spot between a female friend/'lover,' a female co-star he falls in love with, that co-star's father who falls in love with him, and a male co-star who yearns for his affection. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Mood: | affection |
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | single motheractorfather daughter relationship |
| Story: | gender disguisemale actor playing a female characteractor playing female rolebirthday partycrossdresserimpersonatordragnew jobnannyimpostorimpersonationblockbustercross dressingdisguisetelevision …title spoken by charactercharacter name in title (See All) |
Fletcher Reede, a fast talking attorney, habitual liar, and divorced father is an incredibly successful lawyer who has built his career by lying. He has a habit of giving precedence to his job and always breaking promises to be with his young son Max, but Fletcher lets Max down once too often, for m …issing his own son's birthday party. But until then at 8:15 Max has decided to make an honest man out of him as he wishes for one whole day his dad couldn't tell a lie. When the wish comes true all Fletcher can do is tell the truth and cannot tell one lie. Uh-oh for Fletcher! (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familydivorce |
| Mood: | affection |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshiplawyerfamily relationshipsfather son relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | child's birthday partybirthday partycourt rulingbirthday giftparenthoodblockbusterlifting someone into the airbirthday cakeobscene finger gestureparty |
Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches … age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need. (Read More)
| Themes: | divorce |
| Locations: | courtroomswimming poolrestaurant |
| Characters: | single fathersingle motherlawyerfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | custody battlefemale lawyerbirthday partycustodyfatherhoodparenthoodobscene finger gesturejudgesoccercharacter name in title |
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new respo …nsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted, however, refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son. (Read More)
| Themes: | divorce |
| Locations: | courtroomrestaurant |
| Characters: | single fatherex husband ex wife relationshipsingle motherlawyerfamily relationshipsfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | custody battlebirthday partycourt rulingcustodyblockbusterjudgecharacter name in titlebased on novel |
When two pre-teens named Hallie and Annie meet through their summer camp, their two lives are rattled when they realize that they are identical twins. With parents, British mother aka famous dress designer Elizabeth and American father, a wine maker named Nick, living in two different sides of the u …niverse, the girls decide to make an identity swap in hopes of spending time with their other parent. The girls later choose to aware their guardians of the swap while at a hotel in NYC, which late reunites the divorced pair and sends them back into remarriage with each other. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | comedy of errors |
| Themes: | divorce |
| Locations: | bus |
| Characters: | single fatherex husband ex wife relationshipsingle motherfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | allergyfamily reuniontween girlassumed identitynannychild's point of viewbased on novel |
When Jane and Michael, the children of the wealthy and uptight Banks family, are faced with the prospect of a new nanny, they are pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the magical Mary Poppins. Embarking on a series of fantastical adventures with Mary and her Cockney performer friend, Bert, the sib …lings try to pass on some of their nanny's sunny attitude to their preoccupied parents. (Read More)
| Characters: | family relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | lifting female in airquitting a jobtween girlnew jobnannychild's point of viewblockbusterlifting someone into the airtitle spoken by charactercharacter name in titlebased on novel |
Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy's granddaughter. Captain Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbell (Roberts). With the help of her and the Lost Boys, he must remember how to be Pet …er Pan again in order to save his children by battling with Captain Hook once again. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | dysfunctional family |
| Characters: | lawyerfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | reference to gandhilifting female in airchild's point of viewblockbusterlifting someone into the airtitle spoken by charactercharacter name in titlebased on novel |
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
| Themes: | dysfunctional family |
| Mood: | affection |
| Characters: | single motherfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | birthday partyparenthoodblockbusterbirthday cakeparty |
Ben has recently graduated from college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt hi …m when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | dysfunctional familydivorcejealousy |
| Locations: | busswimming pool |
| Characters: | lawyerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | birthday partyscotchfish tankblockbusterpartybased on novel |
When Nick Parsons appears to be murdered his wife Libby is tried and convicted. Six years later Libby is paroled and with the help of Travis Lehman (her parole officer) she sets out to find her son and the truth behind the "murder".
| Locations: | san francisco californiacourtroomswimming pool |
| Characters: | lawyerfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | assumed identitymisunderstandingremote controlbabysitterjudgesoccertitle spoken by charactercigarette smoking |
After graduating from Montclair State, New Jersey Girl Annie can't make up her mind about what to do with her life. After saving a little boy from being run over in the park, she is quickly employed as a nanny for a rich Upper East Side couple. Mr X is occupied with his business, Mrs X loves shoppin …g, and neither really likes to spend time with their little boy Grayer. Annie quickly learns that she has more than her hands full taking care of him. Her busy schedule doesn't give her much spare time. Mrs X fired her last nanny because she was dating and that gives Annie problems when Harvard Hottie who lives in the same building asks her out on a date. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familydivorce |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | interviewing a nannychild's birthday partybirthday partycaught in a lienanny |
A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.
| Locations: | courtroomswimming poolrestaurant |
| Characters: | lawyerfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | birthday partycrossdresserponyscene during opening creditsbirthday cakecross dressingjudgedisguisepartycigarette smoking |
Vincent is an old Vietnam vet whose stubbornly hedonistic ways have left him without money or a future. Things change when his new next-door neighbor's son, Oliver, needs a babysitter and Vince is willing enough for a fee. From that self-serving act, an unexpected friendship forms as Vincent and Oli …ver find so much of each other's needs through each other. As Vincent mentors Oliver in street survival and other worldly ways, Oliver begins to see more in the old man than just his foibles. When life takes a turn for the worse for Vincent, both them find the best in each other than no one around them suspects. (Read More)
| Themes: | divorce |
| Locations: | courtroombus |
| Characters: | single motherlawyermother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | toy dinosaurvacuum cleanernew jobremote controlscene during opening creditsbabysittertitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingcharacter name in title |
Sandy Patterson ('Jason Bateman' (qv)) gets a nice call confirming his name and other identifying information. The next thing he knows, a spa in Florida is reminding him of his appointment and his credit cards are maxed out. With his identity stolen, Sandy leaves his wife, kids and job to literally …bring the thief to justice in Colorado. Keeping tabs on the other Sandy ('Melissa McCarthy' (qv)) and run-ins with bounty hunters is harder than he was expecting, and ultimately the cross-country trip is going to find both Sandys learning life tips from one another. (Read More)
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | family relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | birthday partyimpersonatorquitting a jobassumed identityimpostorblockbusterbirthday cakeprofanity |
Here's the thing! Viola's soccer team at Cornwall gets cut. She wants to join the boys team, but they do not allow girls. So she thinks "If you can't join them, beat them". So she does! She disguises herself as her twin brother Sebastian, and goes out for the rival school, Illyria, boys' soccer team … and makes it. Unfortunately, she didn't plan falling in love with her roommate Duke. But Duke has his eyes on Olivia. What makes matters worse is that Olivia starts to fall for Sebastian because he/she has a sensitive side. If things couldn't get more problematic, the real Sebastian (who was in London working on his music) comes home early. He arrives on campus and has no clue that he was replaced by his twin sister. (Read More)
| Characters: | family relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | gender disguisechanging clothesgender bendercrossdresserassumed identityimpersonationcross dressingdisguisesoccer |
New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI tra …cks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | divorce |
| Locations: | courtroomswimming poolrestaurant |
| Characters: | lawyerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | impersonatorassumed identitynew jobimpostorimpersonationblockbusterjudgedisguisepartycigarette smoking |
Hank Palmer is a successful defense attorney in Chicago, who is getting a divorce. When His brother calls with the news that their mother has died, Hank returns to his childhood home to attend the funeral. Despite the brittle bond between Hank and the Judge, Hank must come to his father's aid and de …fend him in court. Here, Hank discovers the truth behind the case, which binds together the dysfunctional family and reveals the struggles and secrecy of the family. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familydivorce |
| Locations: | courtroomrestaurant |
| Characters: | divorce lawyerlawyerfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | reference to ronald reaganremote controljudge |
When two Chicago musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness the the St. Valentine's Day massacre, they want to get out of town and get away from the gangster responsible, Spats Colombo. They're desperate to get a gig out of town but the only job they know of is in an all-girl band heading to Florida. They sh …ow up at the train station as Josephine and Daphne, the replacement saxophone and bass players. They certainly enjoy being around the girls, especially Sugar Kane Kowalczyk who sings and plays the ukulele. Joe in particular sets out to woo her while Jerry/Daphne is wooed by a millionaire, Osgood Fielding III. Mayhem ensues as the two men try to keep their true identities hidden and Spats Colombo and his crew show up for a meeting with several other crime lords. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Locations: | bus |
| Characters: | mother son relationship |
| Story: | gender disguiseactor playing female rolegender bendertransvestismassumed identityirreverenceblockbusterbirthday cakecross dressingbraceletdisguisepartytitle spoken by character |
Disheartened attorney Mike Flaherty (Giamatti), who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boy's mother shows up fresh from reha …b and flat broke, threatening to derail everything. (Read More)
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | single motherlawyermother son relationship |
| Story: | female lawyercourt rulingcaught in a liescene during opening creditsjudgecigarette smoking |
In the comedy Daddy Day Care, two fathers lose their jobs in product development at a large food company and are forced to take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy and become stay-at-home fathers. With no job possibilities on the horizon, the two dads open their own day care facility, "D …addy Day Care", and employ some fairly unconventional and sidesplitting methods of caring for children. As "Daddy Day Care" starts to catch on, it launches them into a highly comedic rivalry with Chapman Academy's tough-as-nails director... who has driven all previous competitors out of business. (Read More)
| Characters: | lawyerfather son relationship |
| Story: | female lawyermale protagonistquitting a jobparenthoodmakeupmisunderstandinglifting someone into the airbabysittertitle spoken by character |
When an adorable baby boy is added to the Addams household, Wednesday and Pugsley do not hate the baby, they just aren't necessarily excited about his existence. Ok, yeah they do hate the baby. So Wednesday and Pugsley must get rid of the new addition one way or another. Meanwhile a new nanny is add …ed to the household who overtakes Fester. The Addams must stop the nanny, but how? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | dysfunctional familyjealousy |
| Characters: | family relationships |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | allergymale protagonistparenthoodnannylifting someone into the aircharacter name in title |
Two drag-queens (Anthony/Mitzi and Adam/Felicia) and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman they've con …tracted with is Anthony's wife. Their bus breaks down, and is repaired by Bob, who travels on with them. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Locations: | bus |
| Characters: | father son relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | transvestismdragscene during opening creditscross dressingprofanitycharacter name in title |
As an idle, good-natured bachelor, Uncle Buck is the last person you would think of to watch the kids. However, during a family crisis, he is suddenly left in charge of his nephew and nieces. Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-loving Uncle Buck soon charms his younger relatives Miles and Maizy with …his hefty cooking and his new way of doing the laundry. His carefree style does not impress everyone though - especially his rebellious teenage niece, Tia, and his impatient girlfriend, Chanice. With a little bit of luck and a lot of love, Uncle Buck manages to surprise everyone in this heartwarming family comedy. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional family |
| Mood: | affection |
| Characters: | family relationshipsmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | vacuum cleanertween girlmisunderstandingbabysitterprofanitytitle spoken by charactercharacter name in title |
A little boy named Andy loves to be in his room, playing with his toys, especially his doll named "Woody". But, what do the toys do when Andy is not with them, they come to life. Woody believes that he has life (as a toy) good. However, he must worry about Andy's family moving, and what Woody does n …ot know is about Andy's birthday party. Woody does not realize that Andy's mother gave him an action figure known as Buzz Lightyear, who does not believe that he is a toy, and quickly becomes Andy's new favorite toy. Woody, who is now consumed with jealousy, tries to get rid of Buzz. Then, both Woody and Buzz are now lost. They must find a way to get back to Andy before he moves without them, but they will have to pass through a ruthless toy killer, Sid Phillips. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | jealousy |
| Characters: | single motherfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | child's birthday partybirthday partytoy dinosaurblockbusterlifting someone into the airparty |
The Addams step out of 'Charles Addams' (qv)' cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip in the shark's son into the family as their long … lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault before he is discovered? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | dysfunctional family |
| Characters: | lawyerfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | tween girlimpostorblockbusterlifting someone into the aircharacter name in title |
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, Los Angeles journalist, really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. Now, Fletch is at it again: In disguise as a bum, he lives at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is ad …dressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favour. For the sum of $50,000, Fletch should kill poor cancer-ridden Mr. Stanwyk with a gun, so that his wife will get the insurance money. What the guy didn't think of was Fletch's real profession. Returning into normal life, Fletch instantly takes up research not only to find out that Mr. Stanwyk is healthy as life itself but he also runs into certain connections between drug dealing at the beach, Alan Stanwyk, his private jet, the police and a very expensive piece of Land in Utah. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Characters: | divorce lawyer |
| Story: | impersonatorimpostorimpersonationobscene finger gesturedisguisetitle spoken by charactercharacter name in titlebased on novel |
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Bree …dlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familyjealousy |
| Locations: | swimming poolrestaurant |
| Characters: | single motherfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | birthday partyparenthoodblockbusterpartybased on novel |
Erin Grant loses care and custody of her daughter when she's divorced from her husband Darrell, a small-time thief. Struggling for money, she is a dancer at a nightclub, where one night Congressman Dilbeck (in disguise) attacks another member of the audience. A spectator, who recognizes Dilbeck and …is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | divorce |
| Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipsingle motherfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | custodyjudgedisguisecigarette smokingbased on novel |
Will Shakespeare is a known but struggling poet, playwright and actor who not only has sold his next play to both Philip Henslow and Richard Burbidge but now faces a far more difficult problem: he is bereft of ideas and has yet to begin writing. He is in search of his muse, the woman who will inspir …e him but all attempts fail him until he meets the beautiful Viola de Lesseps. She loves the theatre and would like nothing more than to take to the stage but is forbidden from doing so as only men can be actors. She is also a great admirer of Shakespeare's works. Dressing as a man and going by the name of Thomas Kent, she auditions and is ideal for a part in his next play. Shakespeare soon sees through her disguise and they begin a love affair, one they know cannot end happily for them as he is already married and she has been promised to the dour Lord Wessex. As the company rehearses his new play, Will and Viola's love is transferred to the written page leading to the masterpiece that is Romeo and Juliet. (Read More)
| Themes: | jealousy |
| Characters: | actor |
| Story: | gender disguiseassumed identitydragblockbustercross dressingbraceletdisguisecharacter name in title |
After a Navy SEAL fails to rescue a scientist who developed a top secret device, he is assigned to guard the man's children while searching for information on where the device may be hidden inside the house. Along the way, he must cope with rebellious teens, child care, an overbearing school officia …l, and foreign spies also looking for it. (Read More)
| Characters: | family relationshipsmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | male nannyquitting a jobnannylifting someone into the airbabysitterbraceletsoccertitle spoken by character |
It is Christmas time and the McCallister family is preparing for a vacation in Paris, France. But the youngest in the family named Kevin got into a scuffle with his older brother Buzz and was sent to his room which is on the third floor of his house. Then, the next morning, while the rest of the fam …ily was in a rush to make it to the airport on time, they completely forgot about Kevin who now has the house all to himself. Being home alone was fun for Kevin, having a pizza all to himself, jumping on his parents' bed, and making a mess. Then, Kevin discovers about two burglars, Harry and Marv, about to rob his house on Christmas Eve. Kevin acts quickly by wiring his own house with makeshift booby traps to stop the burglars and to bring them to justice. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | dysfunctional family |
| Characters: | family relationshipsmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | child swearingfamily reunionchild's point of viewremote controlblockbusterlifting someone into the airdisguisetelevisiontitle spoken by character |
Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a successful sports agent. The biggest clients, the respect, a beautiful fiancee, he has it all. Until one night he questions his purpose. His place in the world, and finally comes to terms with what's wrong with his career and life. Recording all his thoughts in a miss …ion statement Jerry feels he has a new lease on life. Unfortunately his opinions aren't met with enthusiasm from his superiors and after dishonorably being stripped of his high earning clients and elite status within the agency Jerry steps out into the sports business armed with only one volatile client (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and the only person with belief in his abilities (Renee Zellweger) with the impossible task of rebuilding what he once had. Along the way he faces the harsh truths which he'd ignored in the past and a host of hardships that he'd never faced before. (Read More)
| Mood: | affection |
| Characters: | single mothermother son relationship |
| Story: | male nannyquitting a jobfish tankblockbusterlifting someone into the airscene during opening creditsbabysittertitle spoken by charactercharacter name in title |
Based on actual events. Brandon Teena is the popular new guy in a tiny Nebraska town. He hangs out with the guys, drinking, cussing, and bumper surfing, and he charms the young women, who've never met a more sensitive and considerate young man. Life is good for Brandon, now that he's one of the guys … and dating hometown beauty Lana; however, he's forgotten to mention one important detail. It's not that he's wanted in another town for GTA and other assorted crimes, but that Brandon Teena was actually born a woman named Teena Brandon. When his best friends make this discovery, Brandon's life is ripped apart. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional family |
| Characters: | single mothermother daughter relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | gender disguisebirthday partyimpostorcross dressingobscene finger gesturedisguisepartycigarette smoking |
After winning a custody battle for her daughter, Yoshimi tries to make a new start. The apartment she moves into seems perfect at first. Soon though, strange things begin happening. Huge water stains appear on the ceiling and drip constantly, more liquid oozing into the rooms every day. She calls th …e landlord in but he refuses to do anything about it. A child's red bag shows up in odd places and soon the child herself starts appearing. Yoshimi then discovers the origin of the ghost... (Read More)
| Themes: | divorce |
| Locations: | bus |
| Characters: | lawyermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
| Story: | custody battlecustodycigarette smokingbased on novel |
Mark Sway is an 11 year old boy who lives with his mother and brother in a trailer. One day he and his brother are hanging out when a car pulls over beside them. The driver then sticks a hose in his exhaust and puts the other end into the car. Mark pulls it out. But the man sees him and grabs him an …d takes inside the car. The man talks to Mark then later shoots himself. The shock sends Mark's brother into a catatonic state. The police question him and slips out some stuff that makes them think he's saying more than he knows. Roy Foltrigg, a prosecutor with political ambitions tells Mark he wants to talk to him tomorrow. Mark feeling that he needs a lawyer, sees Reggie Love. Mark tells her about the man who killed himself. Reggie tells him he's a mob lawyer. And one of his clients is a member of a mob family who is suspected of killing a Senator who was trying to take down his family. But because the Senator's body is missing, they can't prosecute him. Reggie thinks Foltrigg thinks the lawyer told Mark where the body is which is why he wants to speak to him. Mark goes to meet Roy and when he threatens him, Mark steps out then Reggie comes in with a recording of his conversation with Mark telling him that made several violations. In the meantime, the mobster is told by the head of the family to take care of Mark. So he threatens Mark. Mark doesn't know what to do and learns that Reggie has some secrets of her own and is uncertain if he can trust her. (Read More)
| Locations: | courtroomrestaurant |
| Characters: | single motherlawyerfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | female lawyerchild swearingchild's point of viewscene during opening creditsobscene finger gesturejudgedisguisecigarette smokingbased on novel |
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, …and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price. (Read More)
| Themes: | divorce |
| Locations: | courtroombusswimming pool |
| Characters: | actorfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | birthday cakeobscene finger gesturejudgepartytitle spoken by charactercigarette smoking |
The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce … lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far.. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familydivorce |
| Characters: | divorce lawyerlawyerfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | character name in titlebased on novel |
An attorney in a rush to make a court appointment to file legal papers involving a multi-million dollar trust accidentally collides with an alcoholic insurance salesman, who also is a rush for a court appointment involving the custody of his children. The attorney leaves the scene of the accident an …d strands the salesman, causing him to miss his custody hearing. During the process of the post-crash discussion, the attorney accidentally drops the papers he needs to present in court. The judge gives him until the end of the day to present the papers and thus begins a cat and mouse game between the proponents. A few questionable actions later on both parties' part, they finally start questioning their actions and their lives. In the end, both come to new understanding of what is important and appear to be set in new ethical and moral directions. Contains mild violence and profanity. (Read More)
| Themes: | divorce |
| Locations: | courtroomrestaurant |
| Characters: | lawyer |
| Story: | divorce courtcourt rulingcustodyprofanityjudge |
Three bachelor friends - architect Peter, artist Michael, and actor Jack are sharing an apartment in Manhattan. After Jack goes filming in Turkey his two flatmates find his baby daughter - which Jack doesn't know about - left outside their door. The two are left to look after the baby, and realise h …ow difficult this can be. How would this baby change the life style of these confirmed bachelors? (Read More)
| Mood: | affection |
| Locations: | swimming pool |
| Characters: | actorfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | birthday partycustodyparenthoodblockbuster |
Sandy, upon discovering her husband's infidelity while watching her son's birthday video, leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. She gets an apartment that's above a coffee house where she befriends one of the workers, Aram, a guy whose wife only married him so she could get a green card. Aram' …s family thinks he's wasting his life and education by working in the coffee house. Soon after moving into the apartment, Sandy hires Aram to be her nanny while she takes on work for the first time since her children were born. It isn't long when Aram and Sandy find they get along wonderfully and start to date. But the question is: is their relationship real or is it, in fact, just a rebound for both of them? (Read More)
| Themes: | divorce |
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | male nannynannybabysitterparty |
'Erin Brockovich-Ellis' (qv) is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation … for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her law firm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation. (Read More)
| Locations: | courtroomswimming poolrestaurant |
| Characters: | single motherlawyerfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | misunderstandingbabysitterjudgetitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingcharacter name in title |
Peyton Flanders ('Rebecca De Mornay' (qv)) seemed to be the perfect nanny, but secretly she was out to wreck the lives of the family she was supposed to be helping. Before becoming the nanny, Peyton had a miscarriage due to the stress caused by the death of her husband, Dr. Victor Mott ('John de Lan …cie' (qv)), and blamed it on Claire (the mother, played by 'Annabella Sciorra' (qv)),. Claire suspects nothing, having never met Peyton before. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familyjealousy |
| Characters: | family relationships |
| Story: | parenthoodnannyblockbusterlifting someone into the airbabysitter |
A family. Rose and Norah, in Albuquerque, lost their mother when they were young. Rose is responsible - a housecleaner, raising her seven-year-old son Oscar. She's also having an affair with Mac, a married cop, her high-school sweetheart. Norah can't hold a job. Their dad, Joe, is quirky. When Oscar … is expelled for odd behavior, Rose wants to earn enough to send him to private school. Mac suggests she clean up after crime scenes, suicides, and deaths that go undiscovered for awhile. Rose enlists Norah, and Sunshine Cleaners is born. Norah bonds with the dead, Rose finds out that it's a regulated business, and complications arise. Can a family marked by tragedy sort things out? (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional family |
| Locations: | swimming poolrestaurant |
| Characters: | single motherfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | birthday partyvacuum cleanerremote controlbabysitterbirthday cakepartytitle spoken by character |
John Kimble is a tough city cop who's been on the trail of drug dealer Cullen Crisp for years. He finally tracks Crisp down but it seems the only person that can testify against him is his ex-wife. The problem is she's disappeared and all Kimble knows is the name of the school in Oregon where her so …n attends. When things don't quite go to plan, Kimble finds he has to go undercover on his toughest assignment yet - Kindergarten teacher! (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Locations: | courtroomrestaurant |
| Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipsingle motherlawyerfamily relationshipsmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | ponyblockbusterlifting someone into the airscene during opening creditsobscene finger gesturejudgepartycigarette smoking |
Julie and Jason have been best friends for years with no romantic interest in each other. He sleeps with someone new every few days, and she's looking for Mr. Right. Now in their thirties, they notice that their friends seem to lose all their good qualities when they have children - child rearing an …d the spark of Eros don't seem to co-exist. So, they decide to have a child together, share in child rearing, but pursue their own romantic lives. Things go well until he meets Mary Jane and she meets Kurt. Both seem like perfect mates. What could go wrong? (Read More)
| Themes: | divorcejealousy |
| Locations: | restaurant |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | interviewing a nannychild swearingnannybirthday cake |
In San Francisco in the 1950s, Margaret was a woman trying to make it on her own after leaving her husband with only her daughter and her paintings. She meets gregarious ladies' man and fellow painter Walter Keane in a park while she was struggling to make an impact with her drawings of children wit …h big eyes. The two quickly become a pair with outgoing Walter selling their paintings and quiet Margaret holed up at home painting even more children with big eyes. But Walter's actually selling her paintings as his own. A clash of financial success and critical failure soon sends Margaret reeling in her life of lies. With Walter still living the high life, Margaret's going to have to try making it on her own again and re-claiming her name and her paintings. (Read More)
| Themes: | divorce |
| Locations: | san francisco californiacourtroomswimming poolrestaurant |
| Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipsingle motherlawyerfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | quitting a jobimpersonationscene during opening creditsobscene finger gesturejudgetitle spoken by charactercigarette smoking |
Bloomington, Minnesota, 1967: Jewish physics lecturer Larry Gopnik is a serious and a very put-upon man. His daughter is stealing from him to save up for a nose job, his pot-head son, who gets stoned at his own bar-mitzvah, only wants him round to fix the TV aerial and his useless brother Arthur is …an unwelcome house guest. But both Arthur and Larry get turfed out into a motel when Larry's wife Judy, who wants a divorce, moves her lover, Sy, into the house and even after Sy's death in a car crash they are still there. With lawyers' bills mounting for his divorce, Arthur's criminal court appearances and a land feud with a neighbour Larry is tempted to take the bribe offered by a student to give him an illegal exam pass mark. And the rabbis he visits for advice only dole out platitudes. Still God moves in mysterious - and not always pleasant - ways, as Larry and his family will find out. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familydivorce |
| Locations: | busswimming poolrestaurant |
| Characters: | divorce lawyerlawyerfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | wanting a divorceobscene finger gesturetitle spoken by charactercigarette smoking |
Michael Newman (Sandler) is a hard working family man, who must please his boss (Hasselhoff), in order to get promoted. Problem is he gets less time with his family, and wishes for a remote in which he can control his life. This soon comes true for Newman, when he meets Morty (Walken), a crazy sales … clerk, who has the ultimate remote. A remote in which he can do anything, including muting, skipping and dubbing his life. He finds this to be the opportunity in which he can not only skip every argument, but also skip to his promotion. He sees this as a good idea, until the remote goes horribly wrong. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familyjealousy |
| Locations: | swimming poolrestaurant |
| Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | child swearingremote controlobscene finger gesturetitle spoken by character |
Set against the backdrop of 1977 Los Angeles, The Nice Guys opens when single father and licensed PI Holland March (Gosling) is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of famous porn star Misty Mountains. As the trail leads him to track down a girl named Amelia (Qualley), he encounters less licens …ed and less hands-off private eye Jackson Healey (Russell Crowe) and his brass knuckles, both hired by the young hippie. However, the situation takes a turn for the worse when Amelia vanishes and it becomes apparent that March wasn't the only party interested. As both men are forced to team up, they'll have to take on a world filled with eccentric goons, strippers dressed as mermaids and even a possible government conspiracy. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional family |
| Locations: | swimming pool |
| Characters: | single fatherlawyerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | female lawyerbirthday partychild swearingfish tankscene during opening creditsprofanitypartytitle spoken by charactercigarette smoking |
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