Amanda (2018), I, Daniel Blake (2016), Gifted (2017), The Florida Project (2017), Looking for Alibrandi (2000), Menashe (2017), One Fine Day (1996), Caddie (1976) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Single Parents movies.
Storyline: When 20-year-old David's elder sister is brutally killed in an attack, he takes charge of his 7-year-old niece, Amanda.
Plot Keywords: brother, sister, niece, mother, murder victim, friend, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A 59 year old carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as they navigate their way through the impersonal, Kafkaesque benefits system. With equal amounts of humor, warmth and despair, the journey is heartfelt and emotional until the end.
Plot Keywords: widower, carpenter, doctor, government official, single mother, child, cool ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is a single man raising a child prodigy - his spirited young niece Mary (Mckenna Grace) in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary. Octavia Spencer plays Roberta, Frank and Mary's landlady and best friend. Jenny Slate is Mary's teacher, Bonnie, a young woman whose concern for her student develops into a connection with her uncle as well.
Plot Keywords: single man, niece, child prodigy, landlady, mother, teacher, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Halley lives with her six year old daughter Moonee in a budget motel along one of the commercial strips catering to the Walt Disney World tourist clientele outside Orlando, Florida. Halley, who survives largely on welfare, has little respect for people, especially those who cross her, it an attitude that she has passed down to Moonee, who curses and gives the finger like her mother. Although the motel's policy is not to allow long term rentals, Bobby, the motel manager, has made arrangements for people like Halley to live there while not undermining the policy as he realizes that many such tenants have no place to go otherwise. Halley, Moonee and Moonee's friends, who live in the motel or others like it along the strip and who she often drags into her disruptive pranks, are often the bane of Bobby's existence, but while dealing with whatever problem arises, Bobby has a soft spot especially for the children and thus, by association, their parents, as he knows that Moonee and others ...
Plot Keywords: hotel manager, young girl, young boy, single mother, tourist, neighbor, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Alibrandi ultimately concerns a senior high school girl embracing her Italian heritage, but moving toward the less traditional Australian way of life. A wonderful cast who play their roles superbly. The film plays on several levels. It will make you laugh and cry and ultimately better realise the dramas in life, how we adapt and how cope.
Plot Keywords: teen girl, single mother, grandmother, classmate, teen boy, father, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Menashe, a widower, lives and works within the Hasidic community of Borough Park, Brooklyn. Since his wife passed away a year before, he has been trying hard to regain custody of his nine-year-old son, Rieven. But the rabbi (and all the community behind him) will not hear of it unless he re-marries, which Menashe does not want, his first marriage having been very unhappy. Father and son get on well together, but can Menashe take care of Rieven properly? Not really for all his goodwill as he holds down a low-paid job as a grocery clerk that consumes too much of his efforts and energy. Always late, always in a hurry, he endeavors to improve himself though. But will his efforts be enough to convince the rabbi that he can be a good father without a wife at home?—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: grocer, father, son, widower, emotional, moving, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ex-spouses on each other, but end up needing to rely on each other to watch the children as each must save his job. Humor is added by Sammy's propensity for lodging objects in his nose and Maggie's tendency to wander.
Plot Keywords: reporter, architect, son, daughter, boss, ex-wife, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sydney, Australia in the mid-1920's. Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her rich cad husband walks out on her. Despite numerous hardships such as the Great Depression, Caddie still manages to catch the eye of smooth dandy Ted and strikes up a romantic relationship with dashing Greek gentleman Peter.—Woodyanders
Plot Keywords: single mother, abusive husband, immigrant, child, bookie, womanizer, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In an isolated, high-plains community, a brilliant mathematics professor disappears from the local college without a trace. Three months later his body is discovered tied to a tree and burned beyond recognition in the remote hills south of campus. Iconoclastic author Poe Ballantine searches for clues related to the case while reflecting on his own life of wanderlust.—32-20 Productions
Plot Keywords: mother, daughter, pregnant teen, bachelor, father, single mother, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Playwright Travalian feels pulled limb from limb these days. He has a Broadway play in rehearsal and they want rewrites. His tramp wife is leaving him, leaving him as well with four children from her previous marriages plus his own son. And his lead actress wants to move in with him but isn't used to kids.—Paul Emmons <pemmons@wcupa.edu>
Plot Keywords: playwright, wife, movie star, producer, stepfather, son, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother.
Plot Keywords: teenager, mother, stepfather, stepbrother, vigilante, friend, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jeff and Heather Baker were life long sweethearts and happily married... for a time. But at her greatest moment of weakness, Heather abandons Jeff, forcing Jeff to raise their young son alone. Ten years later, through a God ordained encounter, Jeff and Heather meet again. They must wrestle with forgiveness, reconciliation and the pressing of the Savior on their hearts.—Brad Silverman
Plot Keywords: childhood sweetheart, couple, son, uplifting, moving, heartwarming, united states ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Smart, successful, and charming, Elsie is the perfect girlfriend. She also happens to be a serial monogamist, with a long history of broken hearts. When Elsie breaks up with her long-standing girlfriend to pursue another woman, she faces her mother's disapproval, conflicting advice from friends, and the nagging suspicion that she may have made a big mistake.
Plot Keywords: single father, autistic child, teacher, student, emotional, dreamy, positive ...
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