Parenthood
Perfectionist Gil Buckman is a funny and loving husband who's also trying too hard to be the 'perfect' parent to his uniquely different kids. As Gil and the rest of the Buckmans discover, being the 'perfect' parent often means just letting children be themselves.
28 January 1957, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
20 July 1924, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
8 February 1953, Newport, Arkansas, USA
4 July 1980, Pasadena, California, USA
6 December 1953, Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA
20 June 1981, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
5 September 1946, Wheaton, Illinois, USA
24 March 1983, Los Angeles County, California, USA
16 November 1970, New York City, New York, USA
31 August 1948, New York City, New York, USA
12 October 1984, Winter Park, Florida, USA
6 October 1977, Orlando, Florida, USA
14 November 1983, Seattle, Washington, USA
July 31, 2013
Parenthood gets a lot of emotional mileage out of kiddie antics, but Howard has, thankfully, given us a little more.
July 31, 2013
This movie has its share of laughs, but it's also Ron Howard's most personal film, and clearly his most ambitious.
July 31, 2013
There's not a scene in Parenthood that isn't involving: The actors keep reaching into themselves and coming up with gold.
July 31, 2013
As Parenthood reveals within its charming, two-hour running time, the pitfalls and quandaries of child-rearing are universal -- and the joys and the heartaches remain lifelong concerns.
August 13, 2014
It's hard to imagine a theme more universal and filled with human pitfalls than parenthood. And it's hard to imagine a movie treatment of that theme more humane and filled with gentle sympathy than director Ron Howard's Parenthood.
July 31, 2013
The fulcrum of the film is Martin. It's an adventurous and successful stroke of casting that takes advantage of what the audience expects from him.
July 31, 2013
Parenthood easily could have focused exclusively on yuppie parents and their kids; however, the script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel is more sophisticated than that, remembering that every parent is still a child too.
July 31, 2013
Ambitiously probing every anxiety-ridden corner of the suburban mum-and-dad experience, some of its interconnecting story strands work better than others.
July 31, 2013
There are good jokes and funny observations about middle-class life. The picture is too long and predictable, though.
July 31, 2013
With Parenthood, Howard as a director has discovered weight, but not gravity. For all of its admirable seriousness, the film finally floats away.
July 31, 2013
This feel-good family ensemble piece from director Ron Howard manages to avoid being oversentimental, and the result is an affectionate, leisurely comedy about the joys (and otherwise) of bringing up children.
July 31, 2013
The remaining cast, young, old and in-between, is lovely.
