Top 10 Movies to Watch on Father’s Day

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By Leigh Hewett

Father’s Day is the perfect time to kick back on the couch, grab a snack, and settle in for a family movie night. Wether dad loves comedies like THE BREADWINNER or grandpa prefers classic movies like INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, these Top 10 flicks honor the special men our lives.

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THE BREADWINNER

Quality:
****
Content:
-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.
THE BREADWINNER stars popular comic Nate Bargatze as a successful car salesman whose life is turned upside down when his wife wins a $100,000 deal from SHARK TANK’s Lori Greiner to make a cute doodad for helping parents organize their children. THE BREADWINNER is a very funny, entertaining, pro-family movie with a classic story of comical chaos leading to a rebirth and renewal.

DESPICABLE ME 2

Quality:
****
Content:
+2 Moderately questionable elements.
DESPICABLE ME 2 finds the former villain Gru joining the Anti-Villains League to stop a villain who’s turning Gru’s adorable little minions into monsters with a stolen secret formula. DESPICABLE ME 2 is one of the funniest, laugh-out-loud, hilarious, best conceived, well-plotted, most enjoyable movies ever. Every form of villainy is refuted, family is affirmed, doing the right thing is affirmed, and good triumphs.

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS

Quality:
****
Content:
-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS, starring Will Smith and his real-life son, is based on the true life and struggles of Chris Gardner as he attempts to create a better life for himself and his young son. One of the most inspirational movies of the year, the movie puts forth a strong message about a parent’s commitment to their child and that with hard work and a belief in one’s self, great things can be accomplished.

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE

Quality:
****
Content:
-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE is the third installment of George Lucas and Steve Spielberg’s mega-hit franchise, with Indy joining with his father, played by Sean Connery, to find the Holy Grail before Hitler’s National Socialist army does. INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE is thoroughly entertaining from start to finish and provides lots of non-stop action, high adventure, cliff-hanging excitement, and light humor, while also glorifying God, faith and even Jesus Christ, but there is some foul language, scary scenes and incidental vulgarities meriting caution for children.

FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1991)

Quality:
****
Content:
-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.
Returning from architectural study in Rome, 22-year-old Annie Banks announces her engagement to a youth she met abroad. The news wreaks havoc on soon-to-be FATHER OF THE BRIDE in this updated modernization of Vincente Minnelli's 1950 MGM classic. Refreshingly, FATHER OF THE BRIDE affirms old-fashioned family values, though there is one exclamatory profanity and sexual innuendo. Aside from these flaws, FATHER OF THE BRIDE is a heart-warming father-daughter story that reflects family life in the 1990's.

CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN

Quality:
****
Content:
+2 Moderately questionable elements.
The very funny CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN stars Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt as parents of 12 children who must confront their priorities when their careers get in the way. CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN is highly entertaining. Although it is not the beloved original novel, it makes a tremendous number of positive, redemptive, and moral points including affirming the resurrection of Jesus Christ in the midst of messy situations.

THE PARENT TRAP

Quality:
****
Content:
+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
In the remake of THE PARENT TRAP, Little Hallie Parker and Annie James (both played by newcomer, Lindsay Lohan) meet at camp and slowly discover that they are identical twins, separated at birth. Their job is to trick their parents into getting back together. Despite some pranks and a few exclamations, this movie is very moral, with a strong Christian worldview that extols family values.

COURAGEOUS

Quality:
****
Content:
+4 Biblical, usually Christian, worldview, with no questionable elements whatsoever.
COURAGEOUS is an exciting, funny and powerful story about four police officer and a Hispanic carpenter realizing that they need to be better fathers. COURAGEOUS has extremely poignant, heart-wrenching moments, mixed with some of the funniest scenes ever made.

FINDING NEMO

Quality:
****
Content:
+4 Biblical, usually Christian, worldview, with no questionable elements whatsoever.
FINDING NEMO is a wonderful animated adventure about a small clownfish who goes in search of his son, who's been put into a fish tank by human beings. Every second of FINDING NEMO is beautifully animated, spectacularly directed and written with great heart and strong moral values.

THE INCREDIBLES

Quality:
****
Content:
+2 Moderately questionable elements.
THE INCREDIBLES is another incredible animated movie from Pixar and Disney, about two retired superhero parents who must battle a villain targeting their family. Beautifully animated, THE INCREDIBLES is full of exciting energy, fantastic fun, and humorous hilarity, with a very strong redemptive, Christian worldview full of many positive moral messages.
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