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FilmPG-131989
Parenthood
Directed by Ron Howard
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers. From TMDB
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Parenthood is a 1989 comedy drama film, directed by Ron Howard, starring Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen and Dianne Wiest.
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60 of 74 · most liked firstDude, the movie that hit me like that was Parenthood! First watched it pre-kids. Then watched it when my kids were, like, teenagers and I'd gone through some adult shit. Hit completely different!
positive · AI labelView post →fun fact: George Brett is the reason "sliding into third" was a lyric in that diarrhea song from the movie Parenthood
neutral · AI labelView post →Parenthood (movie) is woefully underappreciated.
positive · AI labelView post →My first thought when my daughter told me she was pregnant was “I can’t be a grandma, I went to Woodstock”. Parenthood, the movie, looms large in our family legend.
positive · AI labelView post →I’m watching the Ron Howard movie “Parenthood” for the first time in decades. What a great movie, wonderful cast, and stories that ring true. It’s a family movie about love, teen masturbation, car bl*wjobs, and raising a neurodivergent kid.
positive · AI labelView post →Parenthood, he delivered one of the all time classic lines in film history.
neutral · AI labelView post →Best line in the film, "Parenthood" from Keanu Reeves, said in pain and anger, "You know, Mrs. B. You have to have a license to have a dog, but anyone can be a parent." So glad you escaped!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →I loved him in the movie Parenthood!! That Todd!
positive · AI labelView post →My wife and I have a whole ‘couple-code’ full of movie quotes. This one, from Parenthood, used to be a common one when the kids were here (but always said in a loving, caring way). 🤣
positive · AI labelView post →My wife and I decided to rewatch the movie "Parenthood" now that we're parents, and two things jumped out: 1) it's set in St. Louis but that ain't St. Louis (has any movie gotten St. Louis right?), and 2) Dianne Wiest runs away with the film. She's so great in it.
positive · AI labelView post →⭐️Sunday Thoughts⭐️ —Connections happen in the messy moments. It's all messy ~ Life is messy- One of my favorite life stories comes from the movie Parenthood, with Steve Martin. He has bad anxiety about his life, and his grandma tells him…
neutral · AI labelView post →They did a big Saturday Planned Parenthood demo (closed clinic) and had a lethal overwatch and police rides and the whole shebang, even a police UAV to film it.
neutral · AI labelView post →You know what that Instagram guy who wants a "Bluey" movie that's two hours long reminds me of? This one parent that Rick Moranis plays in the 1989 Ron Howard film "Parenthood":
neutral · AI labelView post →"You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog, or drive a car. Hell, you need a license to catch a fish! But they'll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father." From the film 'Parenthood' in 1989.
neutral · AI labelView post →A2: MY understanding has changed drastically. I've seen disappointingly little change in much of the "general public", though. One huge change was the ADA. One year before the ADA, the movie Parenthood started with a kid getting kicked out of public school because they needed special ed. #autchat
neutral · AI labelView post →Along these lines, the movie Parenthood, which came out a year before the 1990 ADA, starts with a kid getting kicked out of a public school because he needed special education.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching the film Parenthood (1989) and I identify with Steve Martin's character SO MUCH (though I don't have kids). The family dynamics in the movie are so similar to my own. Also, it's wild that I am older than they are in the film, but when I saw it as a child I thought they are all so aged.
positive · AI labelView post →It was a major plot in the Ron Howard movie 'Parenthood' that a kid had anxiety and that was nearly 40 years ago (jfc I'm old), and also clear the father (Steve Martin) had anxiety as well. It's been known to be so common a major studio released a film about it in the late 1980s.
neutral · AI labelView post →This song feels like watching the Ron Howard film Parenthood condensed into 4:13. Runs the gamut of how we love!
neutral · AI labelView post →Parenting was out of style from 1969 to 1989, producing a generation Hillary Clinton dubbed "super predators". I remember when the film PARENTHOOD came out and it started the Parenting Craze. It was kind of weird seeing parents at our school plays and not just bet on the football games
neutral · AI labelView post →Father Mother Sister Brother: An Homage to Parenthood Nonparallel Parenting in Jim Jarmusch’s 2025 Film medium.com/illumination... #Analysis #Cinema #Critique #FilmSky #Movies #Reviews
neutral · AI labelView post →@benkuchera.bsky.social Just had to add to your post about Keanu. His small part, but perfect performance, in Parenthood absolutely broke my heart. I’ll watch a Keanu movie any time ❤️
positive · AI labelView post →Haha! 1 time I took my daughter to Plan Parenthood and the TV in the waiting room was showing that movie. We found "Inconceivable!" to be hilarious in that setting
neutral · AI labelView post →I agree. But that's what makes the lying about birth control case tricky. If a woman did get pregnant or risk pregnancy after sabotaging here birth control (this was a plot device in the old film Parenthood), that would seem to violate consent (while recognizing that the harm is different).
neutral · AI labelView post →In the film, "Parenthood", Keanu Reeves' character said, "You know you have to have a license to have a dog, but anyone can have a kid." Parenthood is hard. For lazy people, it's too much work.
neutral · AI labelView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge (October) #MovieSky #Filmsky #nightflight 🎥🍿🎬 Day 14 Movie scene that shows a birthday party in the front lawn or a backyard of a house. Parenthood (1989)
neutral · AI labelView post →The thing you insist on calling "super intelligence" can't accurately create a family tree of Parenthood, the Steve Martin movie. Even if you coach it and remind it to disregard the TV show of the same name, it insists that Dianne Wiest is playing her own mother.
neutral · AI labelView post →To paraphrase Keanu Reeves character in the movie Parenthood, 'you have to have a license to have a dog in this country, but any asshole can become a parent'
neutral · AI labelView post →Name A Favorite Movie (doesn't have to be THE favorite) from this actor/actress (Add GIF, movie scene, pic etc Mary Steenburgen 😍😍📽 Mine: as Karen in Parenthood (1989) Yours? (Add to Post) youtu.be/3yzF2MdnVHU?...
neutral · AI labelView post →This was Ron Howard's first film of the 90's. His films from the 80's are a variety of film, most with some comedy part: Night Shift, Splash, Cocoon, Gung Ho, Willow, Parenthood. All the great films he's directed over the years, his Oscar win is only for A Beautiful Mind. #impromptutheater
neutral · AI labelView post →To quote a line from the movie "Parenthood", I would not hang with this dude for any reason, "not if the world was flooded with piss and he lived in the only tree".
negative · AI labelView post →Parenthood is an excellent movie with a great ensemble.
positive · AI labelView post →I always think of the movie Parenthood when Rick Moranis shows up in his wife's classroom and starts serenading her whenever someone refers to this song.
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched him in Parenthood not too long ago and it reminded me just how brilliant he was. A great feel good movie that he etches out a perfect performance in.
positive · AI labelView post →Not sure about Lost Boys (Although that’s a great movie!) But definitely the beginning of Parenthood. Only tweaked a little after listening to The Politics Bar.
neutral · AI labelView post →My friend directed a documentary about medically-necessary abortions. He lost his Planned Parenthood funding because Trump cut their funding and they need the money for basic operations. Help him finance the film. www.gofundme.com/f/support-au...
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember that Steve Martin movie Parenthood? When you’re sliding into first And your pants begin to burst Diarrhea, diarrhea When you’re sliding into two And your pants are filled with goo Diarrhea, diarrhea When you’re sliding into third And you feel a greasy turd Diarrhea, diarrhea
neutral · AI labelView post →Now playing on VersusMedia's 24/7 live streaming music channel: Rick Trevino - The Ride. Inspired by the film Parenthood, Treviño began writing in 2015, completing it in 2020. Watch now: https://watch.versusmedia.com/music-channel #RickTrevino #IndependentMusic #LiveStreaming
neutral · AI labelView post →Now playing on VersusMedia's 24/7 live streaming music channel: Rick Trevino - The Ride. Inspired by the 1989 film Parenthood, Treviño began writing in 2015 and completed it in 2020. Tune in now! https://watch.versusmedia.com/music-channel #RickTrevino #IndependentMusic #LiveStreaming
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatched Parenthood the other day. Probably the best family depiction on film ever made.
positive · AI labelView post →I was comparing the posted AI photo to the jumbled mess of tube balloons from the movie Parenthood.
neutral · AI labelView post →He says one of my fave movie lines ever in Parenthood
neutral · AI labelView post →Many of them from tv & movies— like the grandma [Harriet Shaw] in 1989 Parenthood [Ron Howard movie].
neutral · AI labelView post →One more thought: Was Dianne Wiest the best '80s/early '90s mom ("Footloose," "The Lost Boys," "Parenthood," "Edward Scissorhands") in film? I think so.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ron Howard's best film is Parenthood, and quite frankly, It's not even close. It's so good, i'm amazed it doesn't have the accolades it deserves.
positive · AI labelView post →I appreciate you! Parenthood is such a whack hood sometimes 🤣 positive note: the new street fighter movie was decent I’m home now — finally!
neutral · AI labelView post →I did but that was forever ago. Late '80s, early '90s? In the movie Parenthood with Steve Martin (from around then), there's a throwaway line about Grandma was "playing Nintendo". I think it got usurped by "Xbox" sometime in the '00s.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think I need to patent a new test for LLMs masquerading as AI: The Parenthood Test. I asked some different platforms to give me a family tree of the characters in the 1989 Steve Martin movie, Parenthood. (I was using it for a class and wanted to give the students a relationship cheat sheet.)
neutral · AI labelView post →watched a movie - #Parenthood Long time since I saw this 1989 film, about siblings dealing with parenting, in the cinema. The story is great, as is the ensemble cast that includes Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Martha Plimpton, Rick Moranis, Dianne Wiest, Keanu Reeves and more. Worth watching.
positive · AI labelView post →Honestly... The way that put such a smile on my face. I went right back to the scene from Parenthood. I don't know if you even know that movie, but I have most of it memorised. 🥰🥰🥰
positive · AI labelView post →Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVFeatures #LineofFire #Parenthood #BlueBloods ‘Parenthood’ Meets ‘Blue Bloods’ in Peter Krause’s Return to TV http://dlvr.it/TVq60n
neutral · AI labelView post →one of my favorite of these is that Steve Martin "Parenthood" movie. they released it here with the title of "the shot that didn't backfire" (o tiro que não saiu pela culatra). just amazing. you'll get there, I promise. (another amazing one is Vertigo. "a body that falls". art, pure art).
neutral · AI labelView post →Day two hundred and thirty-six of 365 film observations. #film #parenthood
neutral · AI labelView post →I can see the resemblance. Nice pic. I remember the movie, Parenthood. I have wondered if River was offered a role, or was it only Joaquin, known as Leaf back then? I remember him as a kid from Gladiator mainly. I know that Joaquin did, Walk the Line. Never watched it. I guess we'll never know.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you haven't seen the film Parenthood (Steve Martin) it's well worth the watch. Gives you some idea what's coming. lol.
positive · AI labelView post →Name A Favorite Movie (doesn't have to be THE favorite) from this actor/actress (Add GIF, movie scene, etc) Steve Martin 😍😍📽 Mine.: as Gil in Parenthood (1989) Yours? (Add to Post) youtu.be/y9jqR3jJ8Dc?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Whether you’re “pre” or “post” empty nest, parents might enjoy my essay at Oldster about the American dream, the empty nest, Cinema Paradiso (a great film), and a trip to Sicily. Feel free to share! #parenthood #emptynest #CinemaParadiso #AmericanDream oldster.substack.com/p/i-see-the-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie 🎬 Parenthood 👍🏻 Released today (August 2, 1989)...
neutral · AI labelView post →2 August 1989 Ron Howard's family comedy-drama Parenthood. The film drew heavily on the real-life parenting experiences of Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer, and screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. #History #HistoryMatters
neutral · AI labelView post →Movies released on August 2: Puppet on a Chain (1971) Weird Science (1985) Parenthood (1989) The Others (2001) The Master of Disguise (2002) Signs (2002) Sing Sing (2024) #movies 🎬 #anniversary
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