Parenthood

About Parenthood

The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.

Parenthood is a 1989 comedy film directed by Ron Howard. The film is filed under dysfunctional family, grandparent grandchild relationship, parenting, and parent child relationship.

Steve Martin appears as Gil Buckman, Mary Steenburgen as Karen Buckman, Dianne Wiest as Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman, and Jason Robards as Frank Buckman. It runs 124 minutes and was released in July 1989.

The screenplay is by Babaloo Mandel and Lowell Ganz.

The Judge, Georgia Rule, and Sexual Chronicles of a French Family make useful companions to Parenthood, all filed under family relationships. TMDB voters put it at 6.7 out of 10 across 759 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.