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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 33632
Released: May 31, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A busy executive learns during a meeting that his father may be dying and rushes home to his side. He ends up being his fathers caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. In the process he teaches his father to be more independent which causes problems with the mans wife. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/31/2005 Starring: Jack Lemmon Kevin Spacey Run time: 117 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Gary David Goldberg
Description of Dad:
William Wharton's startling and moving novel about fathers and sons got an above-average film adaptation from TV's Gary David Goldberg, who wrote and directed. While the film couldn't capture the sadness and wonder of Wharton's worlds-within-worlds construct, it did get exactly right the notion of how one closes the distance from a parent or a child. Danson plays an ambitious businessman forced to put work aside to care for his aging parents (Jack Lemmon and Olympia Dukakis) when his mother is hospitalized. Mom, it turns out, is a domineering dictator who has stifled Dad all these years; with her out of the way, Dad suddenly recognizes the possibilities of his own life. Meanwhile, Danson's estranged son, Ethan Hawke, comes home as well, allowing the two of them a rapprochement. Lemmon is particularly good (and almost unrecognizable). --Marshall Fine
Dad Reviews:
like a warm hug 
2009-08-20 - I watched this movie on tv one night.....commercials just about ruined it tho. It was such a feel good movie, I just had to get a copy for myself. I like the chemistry between the actors. Ted Danson seems tailor made for the role. And you just can't get any better than Jack Lemmon and Olympia Dukakis.
Great movie!!!
2009-06-08 - I lost my dad, 3 months later I see this movie and I fall in tears. Great drama.
one of Jack Lemmon's best 
2009-02-27 - Jack Lemmon gets all the praises he deserves, but I don't know why NO ONE seems to recognize his GENIUS in this movie. I'm not a Ted Danson fan, but he was actually terrific in this film. Kevin Spacey has a very minor part, but he was BRILLIANT as he always is.
And let's not forget Olympia Dukakis. She's SO good at playing the old ladies with strong personalities!
Some decent performaces, but overall a rather mediocre effort 
2008-11-05 - Ted Danson is pretty good as a business exec who becomes very attached to his father, played by Jack Lemmon. Lemmon himself is also not bad as the aging father, but the movie itself is full of contrived scenes that are supposed to be heartwarming, but come across as predictable and sometimes ludicrous. Also, I was rather displeased with Lemmon's makeup, which doesn't seem very realistic (I can't believe it was nominated for an Oscar!).
One of the most wonderful movies ever.
2008-03-27 - If many of my other reviews have been read, then it is recognized that I can be quite verbose and sometimes eloquent.
This review requires neither (though is worthy of both)... but the title speaks volumes. DAD truly is one of the most wonderful movies that I have ever viewed.
... and Jack Lemmon is phenomenal. He truly deserved a Golden Globe, at the very least.
Please watch this movie... even the coldest of hearts will be warmed.
