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Best movies about dads and kids for 2009? You pick ‘em.
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And the winner is…
We asked GreatDad visitors what movies they thought were best to highlight the dad/child relationship. Among 30, sometimes completely off-topic or off-year suggestions, these five films were the top contenders:
Ben Stiller wrestles with extinct beasts, historical figures, and meddling monkeys in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, the sequel to the popular 2006 special-effects extravaganza.
At a time when too many animated films consist of anthropomorphized animals cracking sitcom one-liners and flatulence jokes, the warmth, originality, humor, and unflagging imagination of Up feel as welcome as rain in a desert.
A widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his grown children.
A post-apocalyptic tale of a man and his son trying to survive by any means possible.
A comedy about a man who learns that the things you want most may not be the things that make you happy, and that being lonely is not necessarily the same as being alone.
A sports writer becomes a single parent in tragic circumstances.
We’ll be opening a poll to tally votes on the blog and GreatDad.com homepage. Feel free to opine below however. I think UP should come off the list. If anything, it’s a film about a boy who’s dad isn’t present, and suffers until he finds Mr. Frederickson.
(Movie descriptions courtesy IMDB and Amazon).
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We love 'Night at the Museum' - both of them. I even used the 1st one in young dads groups a couple of times. But in the sequel it is unfortunate that he interacts with his son so much less. I would have liked it if this could have been another adventure that they shared together.
