Worst parents on film?

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Mallory Knox's parents from Natural Born Killers
The father, Ed Wilson, seemed to derive pleasure from physically, verbally and sexually abusing Mallory while the mother did absolutely nothing about it. At least Ed got what he deserved, namely being drowned in a fish tank.

Mrs. Eleanor Shaw Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate. Both versions. The uh...bad parenting was even more explicit in the book.

Any Andy Milligan movie that has parents. In "The Weirdo", the mother tries to sell her son into slavery! In "Seeds", there's a mother who on the subject of a son's suicide attempt, she says "You've got to try a little harder!" In "The Ghastly Ones" the mother abused the eldest daughter. In "The Rats are Coming! The Werewolves are Here! the feral son is the result of an incestuous affair between father and daughter! Another character in that movie reveals that his own father had been convicted for raping and murdering a six year old girl. In "Seeds" again the mother is asked by one of her children's girlfriends about what has become of that child's father. "Hasn't he told you?", she said. "He's in the home for the criminally insane!"

In the movie "The Grifters", Angelica Huston plays, I think, one of the worst moms ever on film. John Cusak plays her son. Disturbing film.

Ed Gein's mother in the movie Ed Gein. As the real life basis of Norman Bates, Gein had been raised by a embittered b***h of a mother who raised her two sons with religious fanaticism and puritanicalism, who taught that sex and other women were evil. Once his mother died, Ed ended up a murderer, grave robber, and would be transvestite who was making a series of woman suits made of real women in order to become a woman.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

How about Evelyn Gardner on A league of Their Own?

Okay she wasn't neglectful nor abusive but she fed her son way too many chocolate bars and didn't discipline him. She let him run wild and taunting Jimmy in the last World Series game. Also the fact she used her team mates as baby sitters and the chaperone while she played out in the field. The game was more important than her kid so she had to drag him along due to her husband not wanting to watch him anymore. I liked how in someone's fanfiction story, Dottie grabbed her son and pulled him over her lap and started spanking him and Evelyn yelled at her for it. Someone basically re wrote the whole movie making it funnier. Not the worst parent out there I would say but the others have already been mentioned who were far more worse than Evelyn. At least she loved her son and didn't leave him alone at home where he be ignored and neglected, she didn't beat him or make him sleep in the closet, or call him names.


I should also add Dottie and Kit's parents. Clearly in the movie and reading the movie script (which was even more obvious in it) that they favorited Dottie over Kit. No wonder she had the inferior complex and was a "brat" and a "big baby" in the league and was so immature. Favoritism in children, not good.

Kevin's parents in We Need To Talk About Kevin.

He was an utter moron and she was barely human. There didn't appear to be anything at all going on behind her dead face. Together they were utterly neglectful, Kevin was in nappies until about 8, it was obvious right the way through the film that his behaviour was not normal, but there was no mention of getting him to a doctor. There were no visitors, it seemed Kevin was homeschooled as a young child, the family lived in total isolation.

Mrs. Iselin from The Manchurian Candidate.

Need I say more?

Monica Shaw from A Child's cry For Help.

She had Munchhausen by proxy so she kept her son sick and had him be in the hospital and she spent an excessively amount of time with him there.


Kyra's mother from The Sixth Sense

She also had the same condition as Monica. She made Kyra sick and kept her sick and then she died and she was doing it to her next child

The extremely cold and unloving mother from "Ordinary People".

Parents from the Transformers movies. They were too overthetop even for a movie that's SUPPOSED to be overthetop, let alone Transformers.

Those parents from Matilda.

Gordie's parents in Stand By Me.

The Wormwoods from Matilda. They simply disregarded her needs and wants and often left her at home unattended for hours at a time when she was a toddler.

ALL of the parents in Detroit Rock City. No parents should have the right to tell their kids what music they can and cannot listen to especially when their kids are rebellious teens.