Parenthood
Parenthood (1989)

Parenthood

2/5
(45 votes)
7.0IMDb82Metascore

Details

Cast

Goofs

Set in St.

Louis, all license plates at the baseball game are from Florida.

Entire crew visible, reflected from car as Frank talks to Larry.

The horse that Gil rides away from the party on.

When leaving with Tod, Julie takes her bag twice.

More proof that the film was shot in Florida, not MissouriBlack lane markers on the freeway; the type of grass on the lawn.

During the car ride back from the baseball stadium at the opening of the film, Karen is not wearing her seat belt.

In the next shot she is wearing it.

At the school play, Taylor shakes off her ears and hat.

In the next shot, she has her hat on again.

Another sign that the movie was shot in Florida, the scene where they pick up the pictures is in front of a Publix, a grocery store found ONLY in Florida until 1991.

The first Publix outside Florida opened in Savannah, Georgia, in 1991.

During one of the baseball scenes, a ball is hit into the outfield.

The player appears to have caught it, but a ball appears on the ground beside him.

Yet when he reaches into his glove to throw the ball home, it is there, while the ball on the ground is still in sight.

When Diane Wiest is comforting Martha Plimpton on the couch after she comes home with the police, she is barefoot.

When the two stand up to go to the kitchen, she is wearing shoes.

Helen is sitting in the chair, looking at the pictures, Julie comes in and they begin to argue.

When Julie runs to her bedroom and Helen jumps out of the chair, the pictures fly all over the floor.

In the next scene, when Julie is picking up the pictures, they are dropped in one pile on the floor.

When Kevin catches the ball near the end, the same audio of both boys falling and groaning was edited in twice.

In the first Little League game, the player scoring the winning run (2nd across the plate) does not touch home.

Julie is described as having an SAT score of 1291.

SAT scores are multiples of 10.

In the classroom scene where Nathan sings to Susan, she writes BONUS across the top of the blackboard.

It is written much smaller in some subsequent shots, then goes back to the larger writing.

The ages of the babies in the final scene are inconsistent with the time frame and the birth orders.

During the "Electric Ear Cleaner" scene the girl is asking her mum what the item is and is looking straight ahead seemingly at her, whereas her mum is stood behind her.

This is apparent for the next few shots.

When Gil and Kevin are playing the arcade game "Bad Dudes", the arcade game to the left, known as "The Main Event", is powered off at the beginning of the scene and then is powered on in the last shot.

Awards

20/20 Awards 2010


Felix
Best Original Song
Best Supporting Actress

ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards 1990


ASCAP Award
Top Box Office Films

Grammy Awards 1990


Grammy
Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television

Tokyo International Film Festival 1989


Tokyo Grand Prix

Young Artist Awards 1990


Young Artist Award
Best Family Motion Picture - Comedy
Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture
Best Young Actor Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Outstanding Performance by an Actor Under Nine Years of Age

Box Office

DateAreaGross
USA USD 100,047,830
1989 Non-USA USD 26,250,000
Sweden SEK 3,711,057
DateAreaGrossScreens
4 August 1989 USA USD 10,506,450 1 screen

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Reviews

Every single episode has yelling and screaming cross talking and just plain conflict, it's actually quite nerve racking! I thought this show would have been pretty good but season after season of cast members screaming at each other has lost my interest.

I expect a lot more from this given the talent in both directing and acting. It was OK, nothing more nothing less.

At first as with other shows,(for example The Office) I thought this show was boring. But boy was I wrong :) You will laugh and cry.

Am I the only one who finds this show painful to watch (and I don't mean that as a good thing)? Every single character is obstreperous, shrill, unpleasant, humorless, and emotionally bereft.

Switch almost any dialog between any character and you have the same show. Switch the dialog between the characters on this show with 50% of any other 2013 drama/comedy and you have the same blandness.

Gil Buckman (Steve Martin) tries to be a better father than his own unavailable father. It's the funny story of the extended Buckman family from Ron Howard.

Heartwarming, beautiful family series. At the beginning I didnt think that I would love the show that much but It felt like home on every episode.

Is why did this show have to end. I miss the Bravermans.

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