Maybe you need to be a parent to like this, because I thought it was lifeless.
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02/05/03
Parenthood (1989)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:35
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.2/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: The trials and tribulations of middle-class family life are depicted in director Ron Howard's humorous and loving ode to the joys of parenthood. Middle-manager Gil Buckman struggles to reconcile... [More]
Starring: Steve Martin, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Rick Moranis
Director: Ron Howard
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07/25/02
Encourages us to ponder the awesome, crazy, powerful, and zany vocation of parenting.
03/16/02
It's a shock, and a welcome one, to see Steve Martin cast against type as a doting dad. Martin's nippy wit continually lifts this movie above the swamp of sentiment.
05/12/01
Top CriticDirector Ron Howard combines this multi-generational suburban soap almost effortlessly, considering the number of parents or would be parents we're expected to care about.
04/17/01
Parenthood is so nice and so fun that you just want to put aside concerns about its manipulation and its sanitized version of kids’ struggles. If you can do that, then this feel-good effort will work for you.
01/01/00
The performances are all wonderful, each actor having received some sort of acting plum and each giving it his all. Director Ron Howard is very good at comedy, and his timing is expert throughout the film.
01/01/00
Punchy entertainment for the open-minded family, the kind that realizes Home Sweet Home is -- well, an interesting idea.
01/01/00
Top CriticA mosaic that views parenthood from many different angles and approaches and at times even comes near to restoring something that has been missing from film: some powerful drama.
01/01/00
A veritable diaper bag of laughs, it serves best as a sensitive guy's guide to fatherhood.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's the best kind of comedy, where we recognize the truth of what's happening even while we're smiling, and where we eventually acknowledge that there is a truth in comedy that serious drama never can quite reach.
01/01/00
Top CriticMost films are advised not to include too many featured parts lest none be adequately developed, but director Ron Howard is one of the few who can and does bring this off.
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