“Family Overcomes Comical Chaos”
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What You Need To Know:
THE BREADWINNER is a very funny, entertaining movie. The movie has a strong moral, pro-family worldview. The father cuts some corners, leading to comical chaos. He also lies when his wife calls to ask how things are going. Eventually, the lies catch up with him, but truth and love help fix everything. There’s also some repentance and forgiveness, which lead to a rebirth and renewal. THE BREADWINNER has some light profanities. Also, the eldest teenage daughter gets interested in a popular boy at school. MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children.
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Very strong moral, pro-family worldview in a comical setting with some repentance and forgiveness plus truth and love help solve the plot problem;
No obscenities but there are seven light exclamatory profanities (including an OG, an OMG and a “Dear God”), plus youngest daughter vomits fish tank water on father;
Comical violence includes father has trouble cooking scrambled eggs and toast and lightly burns them, father oversleeps on a trash day and spills the plastic garbage cans as he tries to chase down the garbage truck, father stumbles on the stairs while carrying some laundry and accidentally kicks a hole in the wall as he falls, father screams when he lets his daughters and one of their friends do a hot wax removal of his nose hair, a house is demolished by a horse and by an ill-conceived roof repair by a wacky construction ;
No sex;
No nudity, but teenage girl wears a top showing some midriff;
No alcohol use;
No smoking or drugs; and,
There’s some lying and sins of omission by the father, but all’s well that ends well, plus father gets jealous when his rival at work starts replacing him when the father takes time off from work to take care of the house and children while his wife goes on an important trip.
More Detail:
Nate Bargatze plays Nate Wilcox, the Number One Toyota salesman in Nashville for three or four straight years. His rival at the dealership, Peyton, played by Kumail Nanjiani, does all he can to beat Nate, but all for naught.
At home, Nate’s wife, Katie, is super organized with their three daughters, Gracie, Hadley and Sam. As the breadwinner, Nate’s job is taking out the trash, but he oversleeps one day. Racing out front, he tries to chase down the garbage truck, but the guys just laugh at him. Why didn’t you stop for me, he asks. We’re the recycling truck, they reply. The trash truck was here an hour ago.
One thing Katie has invented for their children is a little six-pointed star doodad where each point has a little reminder about chores, getting ready for school, activities, and homework. Every adult Katie shows it to loves it.
Miraculously, Katie ends up on SHARK TANK pitching her “Starminder” idea to the sharks on the popular show. However, everyone but Lori Grenier drops out because Katie hasn’t had a chance to sell that many Starminders because she’s the one taking care of the home. Also, Kevin O’Leary, known ironically as “Mr. Wonderful” because of all the grief he gives the entrepreneurs asking for deals, forces Nate to come out on stage, but they catch him eating a donut in the green room. Happily, Lori offers Katie a lifeline, but there’s a catch. She offers to invest $100,000 for 20% of Katie’s company, but only if Nate takes a break from his sales job to take care of the children and the home while Katie works on her company with Lori.
Katie travels to Korea for two weeks to oversee the manufacture of her Starminder kits while Nate covers things at home. However, nothing goes right from the start. Nate cooks scrambled eggs for breakfast even though Katie left a note that the girls don’t like eggs anymore. Then, while Nate drives the girls to school, the girls find out Nate doesn’t know the names of their schools nor how to get there.
Of course, this being a comedy, things go downhill from there. Especially when Nate decides to scrap Katie’s organizational charts and make things up as he goes along so that he can return to work.
THE BREADWINNER is a very funny, entertaining, pro-family movie. All great comedies have a sense of satire to them. THE BREADWINNER follows this classic pattern. For example, it has a classic story about awkward or dysfunctional people who create comical chaos that, however, eventually leads to a rebirth and renewal. The story places a father in a situation he’s comically not equipped to handle. Then, when he tries to fix things, he just makes the comical chaos worse. Can he discover a good way to clean up his mess?
THE BREADWINNER has a strong moral, pro-family worldview, but the father makes some mistakes and cuts some corners that have bad consequences, yet in comical ways. He also lies when his wife calls to see how things are going while she’s away. Eventually, the lies catch up with him, but truth and love help fix everything. There’s also some repentance and forgiveness, leading to a rebirth and renewal of family bonds. Eventually, the parents and the children find a better way to organize their lives.
THE BREADWINNER has some light profanities and a scene where the eldest daughter tries to hold a party with her friends, including a boy she likes, without telling her father. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children.
