A Taste of Honey (1961), Radio Flyer (1992), House of D (2004), Belles on Their Toes (1952), Angus (1995), Misunderstood (2014), Mermaids (1990), Gas Food Lodging (1992) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Single Parent Family movies.
Storyline: Black and white, gay and straight, mothers and daughters, class, and coming of age. Jo is working class, in her teens, living with her drunk and libidinous mother in northern England. When mom marries impulsively, Jo is out on the streets; she and Geoffrey, a gay co worker who's adrift himself, find a room together. Then Jo finds herself pregnant after a one night stand with Jimmy, a Black sailor. Geoffrey takes over the preparations for the baby's birth, and becomes, in effect, the child's father. The three of them seem to have things sorted out when Jo's mother reappears on the scene, assertive and domineering. Which "family" will emerge?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: british film, social realism, working class, single parent family, independent film, black and white film, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, Mike decides to convert their toy trolley, the "Radio Flyer", into a plane to fly him to safety.
Plot Keywords: family, adventure, drama, childhood, brotherhood, coming of age, fantasy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On their son Odell's 13the birthday, graphic artist Tom Warszaw finally confesses to his wife why he fled Greenwich Village, NYC at that age to Paris. As a schoolboy, naturally sensitive, considerate Tommy was best buddy with 'adult' half-wit Pappass, father Duncan's Catholic school's assistant janitor. Smothered by his dependent mother, a dumb orderly, Tommy got 'parental advice' from a women's prison inmate. Together with Pappas, he saves up tips from their butchery delivery rounds. One night, Pappas steals the bike they were saving for. Tommy tries to take the blame, but ends up expelled as if the instigator. Even more tragic consequences follow.—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: coming of age, friendship, father-son relationship, new york, 1970s, memory, adolescence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.—Dan Weckerly
Plot Keywords: family, comedy, drama, classic, american film, black and white, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An overweight freshman (Charlie Talbert) who pines for a pretty cheerleader is the target of a high-school quarterback's cruel prank.
Plot Keywords: high school life, bullying, self-acceptance, first love, family dynamics, single parent family, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are pampered, Aria is treated with cold indifference. Yet she yearns to love and to be loved. At school, Aria excels academically but is considered a misfit by everyone. She is misunderstood. Aria finds comfort in her cat - Dac and in her best friend - Angelica. Thrown out of both parents' homes, abandoned by all, even her best friend, Aria finally reaches the limit of what she can bear. She makes an unexpected decision in her life.—Cannes Film Festival
Plot Keywords: drama, family, children, coming of age, emotional, mother-daughter relationship, divorce ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After yet another failed relationship, Mrs. Flax (Cher) ups her family to the east coast to start all over again. Reluctantly dragged along with her is her daughter Charlotte - going through a very confusing time of her life - who wants to become a nun, and instead falls in love with a quiet, mild-mannered church employee, to the mixed response of her mother. Set at around the time of the Kennedy Assassination.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, family, mother-daughter relationship, comedy, drama, romance, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could drive her away.—Steve Richer <sricher@sympatico.ca>
Plot Keywords: drama, independent film, female director, coming of age, mother-daughter relationship, family, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his extremely powerful intellect is harboured in the body and emotions of a child.
Plot Keywords: single parent family, mother-son relationship, education, psychological growth, emotional conflict, growing pains, family drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tim, in his early 20s, is quiet, dependable, and held close by his mother, Jean, who works long hours at a Sydney canteen and then does stand-up at night, talking constantly about what might have been (if she'd stayed in England, if she'd had no children, if her younger son Mark weren't mildly disabled). She gets enough club work to keep hope alive. They've bought a moving van, and Tim meets Jill, falling for her but finding the challenges of sex, his mother's prying, and his brother's needs more than he can handle. The family - as well as Tim and Jill's relationship - is on the edge of crisis, accident, or, in Jane's case, self-destruction. Are family dynamics set in stone?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, australian film, coming of age, mother-son relationship, single parent family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: ASHBY is a coming of age/approaching death comedy drama. A seventeen-year-old kid (Ed) trying to understand who he wants to be in the world, befriends a terminally ill ex-CIA contract killer (Ashby) who is trying to make peace with his life and God before he goes. 'Making peace' might just entail killing three old bosses who have tricked him into breaching his strange moral code.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, coming of age, black comedy, american film, friendship, father-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this double coming-of-age comedy, Bird, 12 - wise beyond her years - finds herself having to take care of her fun-but-flighty stoner of a mom, Jenny. When Bird is humiliated by getting her first period at the school picnic, the delicate balance at home blows up as both mother and daughter struggle to discover what it really means to become a woman.—DB
Plot Keywords: coming of age, female growth, comedy, drama, mother-daughter relationship, adolescence, female perspective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A troubled family's problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, coming of age, british film, independent film, mother-daughter relationship, mental health ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Justin Lo makes his feature film debut as Charlie Conrad, a 19-year-old history buff with the world on his shoulders. Following the death of his mother, Charlie sets aside his college plans to raise his highly imaginative 9-year-old brother Ben (Booboo Stewart). Isolated from his peers, Charlie accepts his responsibility yet secretly yearns for the freedom and romance associated with youth. Charlie suddenly gets his chance when he meets Jordan Rivers (Nick Bartzen), a charismatic drifter and fellow lost soul. The two of them hit it off immediately, and they soon embark on a tumultuous romance that gives Charlie a taste of the freedom he's been craving. Just as their relationship intensifies, however, Charlie's long-absent father, Doug (Barry Shay), returns to town with his own plans to take care of Ben. Caught in a struggle for Ben and eager to hold on to Jordan, Charlie must finally search his soul and make momentous decisions regarding the future of his family.—theconradboys@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: gay, brotherhood, coming of age, family, responsibility, romance, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teenage boy's infatuation with a woman he sees on the bus further complicates his already tumultuous adolescence.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, family dynamics, first love, adolescence, family crisis, self-discovery, single parent family ...
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