Parenthood
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- Synopsis
- This feel-good ensemble comedy tracks a quartet of suburban siblings and their families over the course of a single summer. Hardworking Gil Buckman (Steve Martin) and his stay-at-home wife, Karen (Mary Steeenburgen), have just a few months to help ......
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- Director(s)
- Ron Howard
- Distributor(s)
- Universal
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 124 min.
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Critic Reviews
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.Read the full review
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]Read the full review
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]Read the full review
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'Gilmore' Graham tries 'parenthood'
10/12/09 Graham, 42, will play Sarah Braverman, a single mom with two teenaged kids who moves back in with her parents in Northern California. | New York Post - New York NY -
Cancer Forces Maura Tierney Off New Show
09/10/09 Having revealed in July she was undergoing surgery for removal of a breast tumor, Maura Tierney has now withdrawn from her upcoming series Parenthood , say trade reports. | People -
Our Favorite Summers: 1989
06/22/09 Moviefone Has there ever been a summer that proved to be as important – not just personally, but historically - to comic book fans as 1989? | Cinematical.com -
Citytv beefs up prime-time lineup with Leno, 'Parenthood,' 'Trauma'
05/29/09 Citytv is beefing up its fall prime-time lineup with "The Jay Leno Show," a TV version of the Steve Martin film "Parenthood," and the medical drama "Trauma." | JAM! Showbiz