12 Fun Father’s Day Films for Kids and Just For Adults
Father’s Day is this Sunday, and if you’re like me, that means relaxing with a great movie! There are plenty of great movies to celebrate dads, but these are my favorite Father’s Day movie pics, starting with ones for kids and ending with movies geared toward adults. Click the links for trailers! Enjoy!
Even clownfish Dads get overprotective, which can lead their kids to rebel. But Nemo’s dad will do whatever it takes to rescue his son, even if it means overcoming his own fears of calamity.
Not everyone wants to be a dad. Some men just want to steal the moon to boost their supervillain street cred. But when three little girls interrupt his life, he starts to make other plans.
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
When a dad feels he’s losing connection with his eldest daughter, he arranges a final road trip to drive her to her new college, not realizing his plan is driving them further apart. And then, as often happens in families … the machines attack.
When a man loses his job and his wife gets a new job first, he takes over her role of running the house, then struggles to figure out how she does it every day, Meanwhile, they both struggle with missing each other and adapting to their reversed roles.
What do you do when you’ve succeeded as a father of twelve kids and your dream career lands in your lap? Followed by your wife’s dream career landing in hers? Enjoy the chaos as the dad tries to run the family with almost no available time while the mom’s away from home on a book tour.
Return of the Jedi or Star Wars Episodes 4-6
In Episode 4, Luke Skywalker seeks to follow in his missing father’s footsteps, and in Episode 5, he learns his father has become his greatest enemy. You can watch the whole trilogy if you want, or just watch Luke’s efforts to redeem his father from evil in Episode 6, Return of the Jedi.
A personal favorite, of an alien father sending his son to Earth to escape his dying planet, to become the kindhearted superhero we all know and love. My favorite scene is the father-son moment when his adoptive father encourages him to hold out to discover his true purpose in life.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Fathers and sons don’t always see eye-to-eye, which becomes hazardous when Nazi soldiers keep shooting at both of them. Hilarious fun and adventure with a sweet family ending.
An embittered man gets a new lease on life when an orphaned toddler wanders into his life. Until her wealthy birth father suddenly decides to take her back in her teen years, and the man must fight to continue raising her.
A man puts his life on hold to help his elder father adjust after his mother is hospitalized, as he realizes that he now needs to take care of his dad.
A bullet in the head is all it takes to turn a callous attorney into a new husband and dad who learns to start life over on his own terms, with his family first.
Here’s where being an overprotective dad comes in handy, when an ex-spy does whatever it takes to save his daughter after she’s been captured by human traffickers in Europe.
