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Parenthood is a 1989 comedy-drama film directed by Ron Howard and starring an ensemble cast including Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest, Jason Robards, Rick Moranis, Martha Plimpton, Tom Hulce, Keanu Reeves, and a very young Joaquin Phoenix.The film follows Gil Buckman (Martin), a neurotic man who works as a sales executive. Though he is constantly busy with his job, he wants to spend more time with his three kids and be a better father to them, especially since his own dad, Frank (Robards), was distant and worked all the time. This soon gets worse as he finds out that his wife Karen (Steenburgen) is now pregnant with their fourth child. Gil becomes worried if he will be able to handle this. To top it off, Gil begins seriously questioning his parenting skills as his oldest son Kevin enters therapy and his other two kids have some emotional problems as well.Gil ends up having to spend more time at work not only due to an expanding family, but also because of the office politics where he works. His siblings deal with their own issues as well: younger brother Larry (Tom Hulce) refuses to grow up, dumping his problems — and son — on their aging parents; Helen (Wiest) deals with her teenage daughter Julie's (Martha Plimpton) pregnancy and elopement with Tod (Reeves) and her son Garry's (Phoenix) abandonment issues; and Susan (Harley Kozak) deals with her husband Nathan (Moranis) and his harsh academic training of their preschool-aged daughter.A big critical and commercial success, Parenthood was twice adapted to television, first in 1990 and then again in 2010.
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The Gambling Addict
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The Gambling Addict: Larry and it's so bad he's in serious debt to bookies who are threatening to kill him.
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Control Freak
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Control Freak: Nathan.
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic BSoD: Helen does not handle the news that Julie is pregnant well.
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Big, Screwed-Up Family
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Buckmans have their share of hardships and hang-ups.
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Cool Old Guy
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Cool Old Guy: Frank is a crotchety old man who doesn't take BS from anybody, and is one of the few members of the family who isn't afraid to tell it like it is.
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The Ghost
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The Ghost: Helen's ex, only seen briefly in a family picture just before it's smashed. Gil's business rival, Phil. Whose character (or lack thereof) is divulged through chats with Gil and Dave.
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Papa Wolf
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Papa Wolf: See Mama Bear.
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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I Need a Freaking Drink: When Julie offhandedly announces she's pregnant, one of the first things Helen does is head for the liquor cabinet. A variation—when Susan tries to plan a romantic getaway with Nathan, only for him to immediately begin planning to bring Patty along so she can start learning Spanish, she rushes into her bedroom. There, it's revealed that she's stashed candy, snack cakes, and other sweets in her closet, and indulges in them whenever she gets stressed.
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Parents as People
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Parents as People: The film does a great job showing all of the parental characters as fully developed characters with their own flaws, problems, and good sides.
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Hidden Heart of Gold
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Hidden Heart of Gold: Frank. In spite of his often crass and insensitive nature throughout the film, he genuinely loves his family, particularly his grandson Cool born from his favorite child Larry. He eventually takes the child in to raise him after Larry abandons the family for another big scam.
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Babies Make Everything Better
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Babies Make Everything Better: The implications of the final scenes mentioned above.
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Brutal Honesty
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Brutal Honesty: A gentle version between Frank and Cool:
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Practically Different Generations
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Practically Different Generations: Helen's baby girl is born after Julie's, meaning she's slightly younger than her niece/nephew.
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Raised by Grandparents
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Raised by Grandparents: Once Larry decides to skip town, Frank and Marilyn take on the task of raising their grandson.
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Sink or Swim Fatherhood
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Sink or Swim Fatherhood: Larry attempts to take care of Cool for a couple of months after his mother ditches the boy on him. He in turn ditches the boy on his parents.
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Disappeared Dad
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Disappeared Dad: A good deal of Helen's troubles with her kids stems from her divorce. Larry becomes one when he ditches his son on his parents.
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Parental Abandonment
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Parental Abandonment: Helen's ex-husband toward his kids and Larry after he dumps Cool.
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Hidden Depths
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Hidden Depths: Tod isn't as shallow as he seems. Grandma has her moments as well.
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Lethal Chef
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Lethal Chef: Helen teases Julie for her poor cooking skills.
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Actor Allusion: Steve Martin plays Gil straight, as a mostly serious man with lots of Deadpan Snarker moments. Martin gets a chance to play his familiar goofy persona that was typical of most of his Saturday Night Live sketches when dressing up as "Cowboy Gil" for Kevin's birthday party.
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The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: Grandma's story about the roller coaster proves an apt metaphor for Gil's life.
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Despite Kevin having a happy birthday party and his success on the baseball field, a day later his emotional problems are just as bad as ever, such as when he throws a fit when he loses his retainer.
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Parental Substitute
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Parental Substitute: Tod starts to take over as a male role model in Gary's life. It's a sign of his maturing. The grandparents looking after Cool, which indicates, in the grandfather's case, his softening—he and Gil have had a prickly relationship due to his abrasive ways and favoritism of Larry.
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Ungrateful Bastard
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Ungrateful Bastard: After everything Frank did for him, Larry tries to steal his car and sell it to pay off his gambling debts. When Frank provides Larry a way out by offering him an opportunity to work in his plumbing supply business, Larry just tells another lie, "borrows" some more money from his father, and runs off to who knows where.
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Blatant Lies
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Blatant Lies: Pretty much everything that comes out of Larry's mouth, such as when he tries to steal Frank's car while claiming he was just taking it to get appraised, or this exchange after gangsters threaten him and throw him out of a fast-moving car:
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Ambiguous Ending
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Ambiguous Ending: It's never made clear whether or not Kevin wound up in special education. Whether he's learning to get a handle on his emotions on his own, or special education truly gave him the environment he needed, all you can tell he's happy where he is, and that he's found his passion in baseball. What became of Larry isn't 100% clear, either. Whether he's off pursuing his next get-rich-quick scheme, or the bookies he owed money to caught up to him, all you know is that Buckman family never saw him again.
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Tranquil Fury
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Tranquil Fury: When Helen inadvertently ends up with the pictures of Tod and Julie having sex, she remains very, very calm when Julie asks her about them and is more sarcastic than anything else. It's only when Julie makes a comment about Helen's own sex life ("I just thought someone in this house should be having sex...without something that needs batteries") that she completely loses it.
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Teen Pregnancy
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Teen Pregnancy: Helen's daughter Julie.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Frank, the Buckman patriarch. He's belligerent, likes to drink, and clearly plays favorites when it comes to his children, but he's also aware of his own failings as a parent and agrees to raise Cool when Larry skips town, demonstrating some hidden kindness.
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Wise Beyond Their Years
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Wise Beyond Their Years: At all of four years old, Cool is savvy enough to bluntly ask his grandfather if his departing father is ever coming back. Respecting this, and realizing that it's better to tell him the truth now instead of later, Frank just as bluntly tells him "No".
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Destroy the Abusive Home
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Destroy the Abusive Home: A variation when Gary breaks into his father's office and trashes it. The climax is the smashing of the picture of him with his new wife and kid.
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Chocolate Baby
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Chocolate Baby: Larry's son Cool.
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Parent with New Paramour
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Parent with New Paramour: Helen starts dating George Bowman, a high school biology teacher. Julie and Gary are surprisingly okay with it. By the end of the film, Helen and George are married and have a newborn baby girl.
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Kids Are Cruel
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Kids Are Cruel: Gil's concern about Kevin's possible placement in a special education class. Kevin's teammate Matt is a more straightforward example. All he does is shout at Kevin when he messes up, and just sets him up for failure, in general.
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School Play
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School Play
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Serious Business
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Serious Business: Lou, one of the little league fathers, treats each game as if the outcome decides whether or not their kids will go on to play for the Yankees.
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Babies Ever After
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Babies Ever After: The final scenes show the family continuing to grow.
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The Stoner
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The Stoner: Tod is a mild example.
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Parent Never Came Back from the Store
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Parent Never Came Back from the Store: Larry tells his father that he's going off to South America on yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes, assuring that he'll return if it doesn't pan out and asking him to look after his son in the meantime. His son, at all of four years old, is savvy enough to bluntly ask his grandfather, "Is he ever coming back?" To which his grandfather just as bluntly answers, "No". Cool's mother did more or less the same thing to him.
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Covers Always Lie
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Covers Always Lie: The poster makes it look like it'll be another wacky Steve Martin comedy. It's more drama than comedy and the humor is more adult and subtle. We do get a taste of authentic Steve Martin standup comedy when he plays "Cowboy Gil" at Kevin's birthday party when the original entertainment, "Cowboy Bob" fails to show up. His very effective impromptu performance bolsters both Gil and Kevin's confidence.
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SchoolShooting
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School Shooting: Gil's second Flash Forward to Kevin's college graduation.
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Auto Erotica
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Auto Erotica: Karen impulsively leans over to give Gil oral sex in an attempt to relax him. He ends up crashing the car, though they're not injured, fortunately. It does make for quite the awkward moment when the cop asks how the accident happened.
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THeUnfavorite
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The Unfavorite: Frank and the Buchman siblings' polar opposite reactions to Larry showing up imply that they were all this in comparison to him. Ironically, Larry is a ne'er do well screwup while the remaining siblings, despite their own problems, are relatively successful and functional adults. Frank finally realizes his error when he not only notes this but that Larry will probably never get his act together.
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The Alcoholic
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The Alcoholic: Frank is implied to be a heavy drinker - Gil says that he shows up drunk to every wedding and family gathering. During a short power outage when the lights go out:
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Where Did We Go Wrong?
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Where Did We Go Wrong?: After Gil and Karen are told that Kevin needs to see a child therapist and is in danger of being left back, they immediately start pointing fingers at each other.
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Karen asks Gil point blank if this is what he wants her to do regarding her pregnancy, given his less-than-thrilled reaction and the chaos their life is currently in—oldest son in therapy, Gil just quit his job, Karen wants to start working again, etc. They argue about it and Gil storms out without them having come to a decision, but several days later, he has accepted the pregnancy and they've decided to make it work.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: After Larry leaves for another poorly conceived scheme, he is not mentioned again, nor whether he managed to pay up his debts and escape with his life.
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Parental Favoritism: Frank is much friendlier and more supportive towards Larry than he is towards Gil or his daughters because he initially mistakes Larry's schemes and pipe dreams for a genuine entrepreneurial spirit. He eventually sees through Larry's BS and realizes that he's made a mistake in favoring him over his more responsible children. A far more extreme case of this is Helen's ex-husband, who loves and cares for the children that he has with his current wife but prefers to live his life as though Garry and Julie, his two children from his previous marriage to Helen, don't even exist.
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Bratty Teenage Daughter
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Bratty Teenage Daughter: Julie, although she does eventually grow out of it with some support from her mom.
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Ignored Epiphany
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Ignored Epiphany: Frank makes it clear to Larry that his gambling and his get-rich-quick schemes are what got him trouble. But rather than take up Frank's offer to head up the family business to pay off his gambling debts, Larry runs off for another get-rich-quick scheme, and is never seen again.
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Nuclear Family
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Nuclear Family: Gil and Karen's family as well as Nathan and Susan's.
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Laser-Guided Karma
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Laser-Guided Karma: Dave chooses the sleazy Phil over Gil for a promotion, causing Gil to quit. Later, Dave calls up begging Gil to come back after Phil runs off with all the clients he schmoozed.
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Children Are Innocent
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Children Are Innocent: Despite being savvy enough to ask if his departing father is ever coming back, Cool is utterly unaffected by the news that he isn't, even though he's now been abandoned by both of his parents.
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Taylor unexpectedly vomits all over Gil in the beginning of the film.
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Never My Fault
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Never My Fault: When Larry finds himself tens of thousands in debt to mafia-connected bookies after betting on a basketball game, he blames a basketball player for his situation rather than face the fact that he's a degenerate gambler. He has similar excuses for why none of his hare-brained get-rich-quick schemes ever panned out.
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Con Man
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Con Man: In addition to being a degenerate gambler, Larry is also a pathological liar peddling in one fraudulent Get-Rich-Quick Scheme after another. Frank mistakes Larry's glib talk for a genuine entrepreneurial spirit, but wises up when Larry tries to steal his favorite car on the pretext of getting it "appraised".
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When You Coming Home, Dad?
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When You Coming Home, Dad?: Most of Gil's story comes from him learning to avoid this trope.
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CloudCuckooLander
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Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Grandma.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: The movie treats very serious and important family issues in a comedic manner (often darkly comedic).
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Parental Neglect
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Parental Neglect: By his own admission, Frank was a lousy father who saw his children as something of a burden and often ignored them (leaving Gil with ushers at ball games, etc.). However, he always provided for them, so it was a case of being emotionally distant and unavailable rather than any kind of criminal neglect.
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Imagine Spot
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Gil's Imagine Spot of Kevin shooting up the college campus is clearly inspired by the real-life event of Charles Whitman shooting up the University of Texas from the campus tower in 1966.
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Adults Are Useless
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Adults Are Useless: Majorly averted. All of the adults in the film may have bumbling moments, but they're also able to step up and solve problems whenever they arise. For example, Gil quickly turns himself into a cowboy party entertainer for Kevin's birthday, and Helen, realizing that Garry's not comfortable talking with her about masturbation, asks Tod to do it instead.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Several characters, but especially: Gil. Hardly a scene passes where he doesn't have an incredibly dry and caustic sarcastic remark. Of course, since he's played by Steve Martin, it would be weird if he wasn't. A typical comment: Gil clearly takes after his father Frank, who is just as clever and abrasive with his quips.
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Loners Are Freaks
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Loners Are Freaks: Helen fears Garry may be this. His father ignores him, and in his spare time, he usually walks out of the house carrying a mysterious paper bag without interacting with anyone. After Garry trashes his father's office, Helen tears up his room and finds the bag contains pornography, which Tod assures her is normal for a kid his age to be interested in.
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Abusive Parents
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Abusive Parents: Tod tells Helen about how his father used to flick lit cigarettes at his head. Frank's own father kicked him out at fifteen and was clearly not the best parent even before that. As Gil states in the opening, it led to him becoming someone who viewed being a parent as a chore.
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Smarter Than You Look
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Smarter Than You Look: Grandma is dismissed as a senile old woman, but her comments make it clear that she knows exactly what's going on in the dysfunctional family. And while Gil dismisses her roller coaster story as the random ramblings of a confused old woman, he later recognizes that she was making an intelligent metaphor for what raising a family and taking risks in life are all about.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: Despite running up a $20,000 debt to bookies and finally admitting that he has a gambling problem, Larry turns down his father's offer of help—help that he begged for—to run off on another get-rich-quick scheme.
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Kindhearted Simpleton
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Kindhearted Simpleton: Tod, in spite of his airheaded personality and allegedly crappy childhood, is a pretty pleasant and laid-back teen. The ending implies that, despite Helen's predictions, he's become a responsible husband and parent. He's also the only person who's able to get through to Garry, which finally breaks the younger boy from his silence and makes him happy again.
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Dysfunctional Family
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Dysfunctional Family
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: The nerdy, less-than-handsome Nathan is married to the very attractive Susan. This is highlighted by Karen's surprised reaction of disbelief to Susan's claim that Nathan really turned her on and that she and Nathan once had an extremely active sex life.
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Real Women Don't Wear Dresses
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Karen struggles with the idea of going back to work or staying home to take care of her kids. She mentions that others criticize her for liking her position as a homemaker.
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Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
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Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: The family are all a bit taken aback by the fact that Larry's son is named Cool.
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: There is no indication that Karen told Gil that she was going to suck him off while he was driving, much less asked if she could; after the ensuing accident and his angry suggestion to her that she explain to the police what she was doing when it happened, it's clear that the whole thing was a setup for a joke.
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Nice Guy
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Nice Guy: Tod shows himself as this, proving to be a decent father and husband to Julie and being the only character to get through to Gary and cheer him up. Despite her initial dislike, Helen grows to like him. George Bowman, Garry's science teacher who Helen dates and later marries. He's completely unphased by and understanding of Helen's unruly, dysfunctional household. Even the perpetually sour and unfriendly Garry seems to like him.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Gil's Imagine Spot of Kevin shooting up the college campus is clearly inspired by the real-life event of Charles Whitman shooting up the University of Texas from the campus tower in 1966. After Taylor vomits on Gil and Karen asks why he's just standing there rather than cleaning up, he responds by saying "I'm waiting for her head to spin around".
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Freudian Excuse
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Freudian Excuse: Gil's childhood self notes this in the opening, that Frank struggled with being a parent due to never having had a positive role model growing up, his own father having been an abusive man who kicked him out at fifteen.
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I Just Want to Be Special
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I Just Want to Be Special: Larry refuses to get a job and take responsibility for his actions because of his sense of entitlement.
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Big "SHUT UP!"
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Big "SHUT UP!": Frank delivers one to Larry when the latter complains about losing his money in a lost bet over a basketball game. He blames a young rookie player who delivers the shot that cost his win instead of accepting that he shouldn't have been gambling in the first place.
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Cool Old Lady
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Cool Old Lady: Grandma might get passed around the family like a fruitcake but she's pretty awesome when it comes down to it.
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Unusual Euphemism
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Unusual Euphemism
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Parents Walk In at the Worst Time
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Parents Walk In at the Worst Time: A variation when Helen finds the pictures of Tod and Julie having sex. Ironically, this was averted earlier in the movie when Julie managed to hide Tod under the bed when Helen walked in.
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Pointy-Haired Boss
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Pointy-Haired Boss: Gil's wormy boss Dave. The twerp couldn't care less about the work Gil has put into the firm and favors Gil's cutthroat co-worker, Phil, for prioritizing work over his family.
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Family Versus Career
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Family Versus Career: Karen struggles with the idea of going back to work or staying home to take care of her kids. She mentions that others criticize her for liking her position as a homemaker. Gil as well. His problems at work stem from the fact that he isn't willing to spend more time there in order to be a good father to his kids. His rival, on the other hand, is fully prepared to sacrifice his entire personal life to get ahead. There's also Helen, who has a well-paying job at a bank. At one point, she shouts that thanks to her ex-husband and his lack of support payments, she's pretty much forced to raise her children on her own, which requires her to work long hours.
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No Antagonist
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No Antagonist: There is no villain in this movie: Even Larry, who is selfish enough to try to sell his father's car to pay off gambling debts, is clearly a slave to his own vices, just as all the other characters are slaves to their own failings.
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Mama Bear
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Mama Bear: Don't mess with any of the Buckman children. Ever.
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Hate Sink
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Hate Sink: Helen's unseen ex who abandoned Gary and Julie and has no interest in a relationship with them (though Gary is clearly the one worst affected by this) In a film where almost every major character and parent is given sympathetic qualities, he stands out as nothing more than a neglectful, selfish jerkass who Gary, Julie and Helen are better off without. Phil is a piece of work, himself. It's bad enough he's the source of Gil's misery at work. But he also can't be bothered to spend time with his family, because he's too busy wining and dining potential clients. Which often involves setting them up with hookers. And then exploits loopholes so he doesn't have to pay child support. And then he skips the firm with all the clients he's racked up. The only good thing about him is that he was a self-correcting problem for Gil. Larry is a pathological liar and a degenerate gambler who tried to steal from Frank (his own father), and when Frank offered him a way out of his gambling debts by offering him a job, he simply told another lie to borrow some money and ran off, leaving his son behind. The only thing that makes Larry slightly less despicable than Helen's ex-husband is that he's such a pathetic loser that some people are more likely to pity than hate him.
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Self-Backing Vocalist
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Self-Backing Vocalist: Nathan comes to Susan's school after she leaves him to win her back by singing "Close to You" demonstrating that he is willing to loosen up. He sings both the lead and the supporting vocals together, as effectively as is possible for one voice in real time. Every time she tries to put him off he breaks in with another part of the song. Eventually she relents.
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Younger Than They Look
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Younger Than They Look: The flashback at the start of the movie reveals Gil is supposed to be 35, which to be fair to Steve Martin is ludicrous - he looks way older and was 45 at the time.
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Children Raise You
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Children Raise You: And how.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Helen's ex, who ditched his wife and kids for another woman. To make matters worse, dialogue indicates he's a loving husband and father to his new wife and children, meaning it isn't a case of him just giving up and deciding that he doesn't want the responsibility of fatherhood anymore, he just genuinely doesn't give a damn about his first two children—Helen implies that it's been very difficult to get any financial support from him as well. Lou is an overcompetitive father who attends the little league games. He's always berating Gil whenever the team does badly, making him even more stressed out than he already is. And he enables Matt's own competitive streak.
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Ensemble Cast
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Ensemble Cast: While Gil's family is the main focus, the film's charm comes from its fully fleshed cast of characters that round out the extended Buckman clan.
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Flash Forward
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Flash Forward: After putting Kevin on second base at a baseball game, Gil has two of these to Kevin's college graduation: in the first Kevin is confident and successful, but in the second (after Kevin failed to make a catch), he is at the top of a tower shooting at everyone in sight with an assault rifle.
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Emo Teen: Garry is incredibly reserved, antisocial, and moody. Though given what he's been through, it's hard to blame him. His mood improves after both Helen and Tod talk to him about it all.
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CoolBigBro
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Cool Big Bro: Todd for Garry. He reassures him that his pornography bag is nothing to be ashamed of, and helps bring him out of his shell.
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Larry tells his father that he's going off to South America on yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes, assuring that he'll return if it doesn't pan out and asking him to look after his son in the meantime. His son, at all of four years old, is savvy enough to bluntly ask his grandfather, "Is he ever coming back?" To which his grandfather just as bluntly answers, "No".
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Innocently Insensitive: Nathan truly is a loving husband and father. But his hyperfixation on Patty's education leaves him blind to Susan's mounting frustration and Patty's stunted social development. When Susan tells him she's leaving him via flash cards, he doesn't even realize what's about to happen until she flat out tells him.
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