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25 Apr 2013, 6:55 am

Edward Longshanks from Braveheart.


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30 May 2013, 6:38 am

I nominate Charles Foster Kane's parents from Citizen Kane.


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30 May 2013, 2:05 pm

Matilda's parents from Matilda
Joan Crawford from Mommy Dearest
Margaret from Carrie
Kevin McCallister's parents from Home Alone


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30 May 2013, 6:15 pm

The dad from Delores Clairbone.


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21 Jul 2013, 3:31 pm

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


Especially Sam's Mother. Yikes!


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21 Jul 2013, 4:19 pm

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


Especially Sam's Mother. Yikes!


Makes you wish Ironhide had taken them out, eh?


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21 Jul 2013, 4:33 pm

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


Especially Sam's Mother. Yikes!


Makes you wish Ironhide had taken them out, eh?


Almost. Too bad he got taken out in the third movie.


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24 Jul 2013, 4:03 pm

Probably the ones in its a wonderful life, stewart granger, seeing as he left them just because of money problems at xmas, um Kevin mcCallisters, although his was maybe just a case of mistaken identity,
Song of the South, where little Bobby runs away after his parents when they decide to leave him and I think they took his dog too.(only because the aunt was mean).
Who else on film, The Secret Garden perhaps, seeing as she had that wicked aunt of hers who supposedly looked after her whilst she literally had to escape for fear of being seen and ends up in her only cousins room.
The ones in James Dean Life stories were not good seeing as his dad thought he wasn't his so practically ignored him his whole life.
In Titanic her mother was off to Rose because she wouldn't charm the mothballs off her fiancé and phantom of the opera because the 'elephant man' was real and he was made a laughing stock out of. Oh and Billy Elliots because they said he couldn't do ballet.(and he did anyway).



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24 Jul 2013, 5:39 pm

The parents who left their kids with the bellhop on New Years Eve in "Four Rooms":

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rIOCb-MFUg[/youtube]



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25 Jul 2013, 3:22 am

Could also mention,

The Shining
The mask of Zorro
The Green Mile

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25 Jul 2013, 1:43 pm

Mathilda's dad from Leon deserves a mention.


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27 Jul 2013, 11:38 pm

Odin from Thor. Specifically, in the parenting of Loki. With Thor, Odin understood what he needed. Not so much with Loki. Loki's descent could possibly have been prevented by Odin knowing what Loki needed from him as his father.



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28 Jul 2013, 10:34 am

WitchsCat wrote:
Kevin McCallister's parents from Home Alone


I think Kate was better. At least she was more concerned about Kevin than her husband was.


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03 Aug 2013, 1:35 pm

The crazy Mom in Spanglish. The type of person who does what she wants but says she's doing it for her kids when in fact what she does hurts her kids. The end of that movie annoys me. Why did he stay with that selfish witch and not leave with the loving woman who cared about his kids?



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12 Aug 2013, 12:36 pm

Dean Moriarty in the movie version of On The Road. He was responsible for producing at least three children, which he expressed love and pride in, but seems to have had no problem deserting with their mothers.

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11 Oct 2013, 7:09 pm

The parents from the Odd Life of Timothy Green. Watch the Nostalgia Critic's review if you don't believe me.

Oh, and Topsy from the Land Before Time series. He has to be one of the worst fictional fathers I've ever seen...