Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Dennis Dugan, Clint Howard, Rance Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, Mary Steenburgen, Rick Moranis, Tom Hulce, Steve Martin, Lowell Ganz, Dianne Wiest, Eileen Ryan, Alisan Porter, Martha Plimpton, Jason Robards, Harley Jane Kozak, Jordan Kessler, Max Elliott Slade, Walter von Huene, Jasen Fisher, Helen Shaw, Isabel Cooley, Ivyann Schwan, Paul Linke, Zachary La Voy, Alex Burrall, Lamont Lofton, Erika Rafuls, Billy Cohen
Trailer
Reviews
100
Ron Howard's Parenthood is a delicate balancing act between comedy and truth, a movie that contains a lot of laughter and yet is more concerned with character than punch lines.
90
Los Angeles Times
Ron Howard reaches real maturity here, as he pulls together the script's tendency to skitter between sociology and sitcom, making it into one perceptive, delicious whole. [2 Aug 1989, p.1]
88
Rolling Stone
Parenthood, heartfelt and howlingly comic, also comes spiced with risk and mischief. Just when you fear the movie might be swept away on a tidal wave of wholesomeness, a line, a scene or a performance poke through to restore messy, perverse reality.
88
Boston Globe
Funny, gritty, filled with surprising stabs of feeling, Parenthood is a stretch for Ron Howard, its director. This new adult comedy has the generosity of "Cocoon" and "Splash," but it takes Howard into deeper, darker, messier territory. [2 Aug 1989, p.57]
88
Chicago Tribune
Ron Howard's first-rate dramatic comedy Parenthood, with Steve Martin headlining a first-rate cast in a most clever script about the joy and pain of being both a parent and a child. [4 Aug 1989, p.A]
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