Six Films in Which Actors Star With Their Children
Colin Hanks has wisely eked out a modest living without much help from big poppa Tom. Until now, in The Great Buck Howard. Who else needed help?
The Great Buck Howard
Paper Moon (1973):
It’s never clear whether Moses Pray, the con artist/bible salesman played by Ryan O’Neal, is the accidental father of Addie, the unhappy girl played by O’Neal’s real-life daughter Tatum. But this much is so: Together, they each made the other brilliant. Tatum, then 10, scored an Oscar for her performance, and even more surprising, coaxed a comfortably hilarious turn from her father, who’s usually reminiscent of a plank of wood.
On Golden Pond (1981):
In between all the old-man-says-”bullshit”-hyuk-hyuk jokes, this soppy family saga makes room for a real-life psychodrama. Despite being one of the few genuine lefties from Hollywood’s Golden Age, Henry Fonda and his daughter Hanoi Jane were infamously estranged, a situation they decided to reconcile by making a movie partly about an estranged father and daughter. Extra hankie factor: Henry died before the premiere.
Wild at Heart (1990):
In this flick, Laura Dern runs off with snakeskin-jacketed Elvis wannabe Nicolas Cage, much to the consternation of her real-life mother Diane Ladd, whom Dern occasionally envisions as the Wicked Witch of the West. Later, driven mad by her daughter’s insolence, Ladd covers her face in red-hot lipstick. Thanks again, David Lynch.
It Runs in the Family (2003):
Chanelling On Golden Pond, Kirk and Michael Douglas dragged matriarch Diana and grandson Cameron into this strange vanity project, proving that the famously volatile Douglas clan could bond over facile jokes and unsightly sentimentality. Ick.
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006):
Will Smith tries to pull himself up by his bootstraps along with cute son Jaden and, somehow, the results are not gross at all. In fact, the film is a deeply frightening and exhausting look at what it takes to make it big.
The Great Buck Howard (2009):
Colin Hanks has wisely eked out a modest living without much help from big poppa Tom. Until now.
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