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Daddy

1991 · 100 min

A gentle, earnest family drama that tugs at the heartstrings with its ups and downs, offering comfort and mild emotional heft.

Directed by
Michael Miller
Genres
Tv movie, Drama, Romance
Starring
Patrick Duffy, Kate Mulgrew, Ben Affleck
Overview
Oliver Watson has never been luckier: he is a successful advertising executive, shares a marriage of eighteen years with Sarah and has three loving kids: 17-year-old Ben, 15-year-old Melissa, and 9-year-old Sam. His perfect life suddenly falls apart when his wife Sarah announces that she wants to enter a graduate school 200 miles away from home, as she regrets that she gave up her bohemian protester's life and promising writing career to become the wife of a conservative traditionalist. Oliver unsuccessfully tries to save his marriage, until Sarah announces that she is seeing someone else. The children start acting out as a reaction and life is complicated by the death of Oliver’s mother and accepts a job in L.A. where he falls in love with Charlotte Sampson. Life again challenges Oliver when Charlotte is offered her dream job on Broadway.

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Directed by
Michael Miller
Genres
Tv movie, Drama, Romance
Starring
Patrick Duffy, Kate Mulgrew, Ben Affleck
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • love
  • parenthood
  • betrayal
  • redemption
Places
  • suburbs
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism7
Romance5
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity3
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
tv movie, drama, romance
Directed by
Michael Miller
Written by
L. Virginia Browne
Starring
Patrick Duffy, Kate Mulgrew, Ben Affleck, Lynda Carter, John Anderson, Jenny Lewis, Matthew Lawrence, Robyn Peterson
Music
Dennis McCarthy
Cinematography
Laszlo George
Runtime
100 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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