There is nothing like cuddling up with your loved ones in your Weston home to watch the right DVD. It’s all about choosing the right flick. Before Eddie Murphy opened his own Daddy Day Care and Tina Fey became a Baby Mama, we had the eternal parenting comedies from the Eighties. Not only did John Hughes’ high school flicks keep us rolling, but there were also a handful of modern classics based on the important issue of raising children. Hollywood offers some insight into mothers, fathers and children, along with their families’ relationships. Here are some of best parenting films to make you laugh and cry.
The first movie that’ll have people in homes for sale in Weston smiling from start to finish is one of Hughes’ enduring PG film from 1983, Mr. Mom. Before he was Bruce Wayne, Michael Keaton was the man around the house caring for three adorable children. When he gets laid off as a car manufacturer in Motown, his wife returns to work. And the adventures begin with dropping off the kids at school, trekking through a grocery store, giving baths and drying the baby’s bum in a public restroom. At one point, housework turns into mayhem when three different technicians show up, including an arachnophobic exterminator. Then the washing machine explodes, the evil vacuum named “Jaws” takes off, the kids set off the smoke alarm by making lunch, and the baby eats their concoction of gaseous chili. Topped with fantastic one-liners, Keaton begins watching soap operas, playing poker for coupons with the ladies and even grows a scruffy beard. Eventually the stay-at-home pop works his way into Super Dad, proving that when a parent is down, he’s not necessarily out.
Prior to making Philadelphia, Forrest Gump won the hearts of viewers in 1986’s PG Nothing in Common. Directed by Garry Marshall, Tom Hanks is a big-shot advertising executive and son of a stubborn Jackie Gleason. But when the smooth-talking womanizer finds out his mother left his dad after 36 years, he’s forced to become the grown up. For the first time, the only child cares for both, whether it’s sneaking a cigar to his diabetic dad or buying his mom a puppy. Spectators in Weston luxury homes will certainly smile from the charming Hanks seducing the boss’s daughter, his mother jumping into dating, and Ralph Kramden trying to shoplift fruit.
With no connection to Mr. Mom’s Michael, Diane Keaton is the “Tiger Lady,” a high-powered management consultant in Baby Boom. In the adorable PG selection from 1987, she’s a workaholic in New York City who inherits a baby girl from an overseas cousin she hasn’t seen in decades. Immediately she becomes a mother. It’s a hoot watching the business tycoon carrying the child like a football, and popping Valium just to take the kid’s temperature. Mrs. Corleone can run a Fortune 500 company but can’t change a diaper. She quickly decides to give the baby up for adoption, but has a change of heart. The decision drives her man away and interferes with her lucrative career. Keaton’s stressful life is left behind when the two relocate to Vermont. Away from the Big Apple, Keaton invents “Country Baby” food and concentrates on being a mother. The city’s rat race has to survive with one less rat. Moms with Weston homes for sale can certainly relate to Baby Boom.
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