2014 suitable for Father's Day to see the 30 classic movies recommended
Men are born strong, so that the father's love is on the side of the heavy as a mountain;
The man is not good at speech stoicism, so that the father's love is silent;
The man is like the shadow of the childish, so that the father's love is more likely to be rich in color?
The father, like the mother, is the most profound influence on us; but not as common as the mother's love to get so bluntly sing.
Fathers, like mothers, are the most far-reaching influence on our characters; and father's love, but not like mother's love to get so common and straightforward praise. Because of the gender-specific nature of communication, we have never been able to communicate freely with our fathers. We have always respected and even relied on our fathers, but we have not been able to properly understand their thoughts.
Father's Day is coming, revisit those classic images of fathers on the screen, let us take a turn to understand their own fathers, to experience the huge abundance of father's love, and then, y touched by it
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The hope is that the child will fulfill his or her dream, and that he or she will use his or her own failures to plan the child's path to success. In Sunflower, Sun Haiying plays the role of a strict father who seriously plans for his son's success. In the movie, the father and son are in constant conflict, and the son can never understand his father's good intentions: the son blames his father for forcing him to learn to paint and lose the joy of his childhood; the son becomes a famous painter, but he still resents his father for interfering in his life. You are not a good father at all! When the son, who has been harboring a grudge for years, bursts out with this angry accusation, the father collapses completely.
This is the life of an ordinary family in the hutongs of Beijing, and the life of millions of ordinary families in China,? For your own good? Is it the true meaning of love between father and son or the source of conflict? This is still a difficult tangle between a strict Chinese father and his children.
2. Benigni
Starring Roberto? I'm not going to be able to do that.
This is a film of great joy and great sorrow, in which Guido is the husband who makes love with passion, the father who defends his son with his life.
Guido, a young Jewish man, falls in love at first sight with a beautiful schoolteacher, and in a Chaplin-esque progression of comedy they enter into a happy marriage with a baby son. However, when World War II breaks out, the Guido family is captured in a Nazi concentration camp. In order to keep his son out of harm's way, Guido tells his son that they are playing a game, and tries his best to tell his wife, who is being held in solitary confinement, that he is safe. Even at the end of his life, Guido still puts on a clown's face to make his son, who is hiding in the shadows, believe that the game is still going on?
The movie, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at Cannes, left a fatherly image that made people laugh and cry. In the midst of a huge catastrophe, how heavy must the love of a father be to ward off the abyssal evils of a child?
3, "I am Sam"
Directed by: Jessie? Nelson
Starring Sean? I'm not going to be able to do that. Fanning
? Why are you different from other people's dads?
Because of his low IQ, Sam is about to be denied the right to raise his daughter, and he finds a famous female lawyer to help him fight for her custody? It's a simple story with lots and lots of love.? mentally retarded? Sam reminds the female lawyer that the love she gives her child? is just love in words? , and that he loves his daughter with all his heart. It's a reminder to all of you and me, too.
True love, exemplified here by a mentally retarded father with no social mindset. Watch Sam's fatherly love and you will know what pure affection is.
4. A Good Father
Directed by: Zhang Aijia
Cast: Louis Koo Ruo-Ying Liu Ruo-Ying Miao Ke-Xiu
From a boy to a man, from a jungle prodigal son to a good father, the time turnaround may be just a split second. When Tin Yan, a jungle boss played by Louis Koo, sees the smile of his daughter, Hei Er, he accomplishes a split second transformation.
Love at first sight with lawyer Mabel didn't transform Tien, nor did the marriage between the two and the conception of their daughter, and a smile from newborn baby Xie'er made Tien play from then on? The newborn baby Xie'er's smile makes Tian En play the role of "white road" from now on. person, even before the gang group fight, he will still be on the phone to put his daughter to sleep.
There is no black-and-white line between blood and water, and Erica Chang's camera wants to be all about feelings and no identity. In this seemingly funny Hong Kong movie, there is always a surge of warmth always, because Zhang Aijia knows love, knows love, knows the love of father and daughter.
5. Finding Nemo
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Andrew Stanton
This movie is the first of its kind in Hong Kong.
The clichéd storyline of searching for family members from all over the world is refreshing and relatable in the azure blue picture sketched by Disney.
In the deep waters of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, clownfish father Marlin and his son Nemo live a simple, happy life, but his father is often afraid to do anything, so that Nemo even looks down on his father. When Nemo is taken away by a fishing boat, Marlin overcomes all the difficulties and embarks on a journey across the ocean to find his son.
The ever-changing and wonderfully entertaining underwater fairy tale world plays out as a child's journey. Even children can easily see that it is the power of love that makes the timid Marlin strong.
Simple joy, simple love, that's the trick of the cartoon to impress children as well as adults. So, this clownfish father and son can be your 'good father, good son' too.
6. 'When Happiness Knocks'
Directed by Gabriel? Muccino
Starring Will?
When a father has to sleep in a public restroom with his son and can't afford to buy his son a grocery store snack, what kind of a predicament is he in?
Successful Smith portrays the down-and-out path of a successful man before he succeeds, a journey accompanied by his 5-year-old son. When Happiness Comes Knocking is a standard American inspirational movie, in which Smith is tired of living in poverty, but he is always struggling, and the power source of the struggle is his son. In order to make a better life for himself and his son, the suffering of the moment can be endured even more.
The friendship between husband and wife, not only between friends, but also between father and son, shines brightly in the midst of trials and tribulations. Dependence on each other is an invaluable treasure in a poor life, and it can also be the driving force that makes you successful.
7. FATHER AND SON
Directed by: Alan Tam
Starring: Aaron Kwok, Charlie Young, Lin Xilei
The same struggle in poverty, but Aaron Kwok's father is not as hardworking and lucky as Smith. He can only watch his wife go away, take his son to a small hotel to hide from the loan sharks chasing him, and even instigate his son to steal in order to survive, and then quietly leave when his son misses and gets beaten up?
This is a complete failure of a father, even in the end he started a family and live a stable life, still can not heal the son's psychological trauma. But even with that pain, the son always remembered that when he was a child, he was holding a windmill, sitting on the back of his father's bicycle, and the two of them were happily traveling.
Tan Jia Ming hibernation after the pay, to us to see is a father's embarrassment, is the embarrassment of the failure of life. But the truth is that life is sometimes like this, and not all fathers in life are necessarily successful.
8, "Thousand Mile Ride"
Directed by: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Ken Takakura, Qiu Lin
For a long time, Ken Takakura played the father and his son do not communicate or even talk. Until his son is critically ill, he decides to go to Yunnan to help his son fulfill his dream, hence the trip ? Thousand Mile Ride?
An old-school Japanese tough guy travels all the way to scenic Yunnan in search of lost feelings. Eventually, in the process of searching, he gains a deep understanding of his son Kenichi's inner world, and develops a strong father-son ****ing feeling. He accomplished the communication with his son in the spiritual world, even though his son had already passed away in Japan.
Don't be lazy to break the barrier, because life is not as long as you think, and the horizontal gap between father and son is not as deep as you think, as long as there is a heart, as long as you cherish, do not reach out, you can also embrace.
9. Isabella
Directed by: Pang Ho-cheung
Starring: Chapman To, Rosamund Leung
Pang Ho-cheung, "Buying and Shooting People", will not become warm and fuzzy, and so his plausible work of a father-daughter theme, "Isabella", still has a strange love wire? Chapman To plays a police officer who mistakenly has a one-night stand with a teenage girl, Isabella, who in turn suggests that he is her biological father, and two two people who don't know each other regain the warmth of their family.
The father-love complex is brought to the big screen by Pang Ho-cheung with a pair of quirky unrelated fathers and daughters, and the teenage girl's feelings of being somewhat exclusive and dependent on her father are exaggerated to the point of near-romance here. It has been said that a daughter is her father's lover in a previous life, and perhaps this story is a visual illustration of that saying.
10, "Big Fish"
Directed by Tim? Bolton
Starring Ewan? McGregor, Albert? Finney
Will hates his father because he often talks out of turn when recounting his life experiences. By the time Will begins to try to understand his father's life, his father is terminally ill.
The director of Edward Scissorhands couldn't have made a more ordinary father-son relationship. There's also a touch of magic everywhere in the movie as the son continues to piece together his father's legend. In fact, the father is just a fairy tale vision to look at life, he told his son all the legend to the comedy end, because he wants to pass on to his son an attitude of life: as long as you are optimistic, you will be happy.
The son eventually understood his father and finished his legendary funeral with his father's way of thinking. The son, in turn, will continue to continue his father's fairy tale life.
11, "My Father and I"
Directed by: Xu Jinglei
Starring: Xu Jinglei, Ye Dajing, Qiu Qiu
There's a kind of love that can't be conditioned. There is a kind of person, no matter he is good or bad you must accept him, because you have his traces flowing in you. This is the father, and the fatherly love he gives you, even if like the father of the small fish in the movie, disappeared for a number of years and then come back, he will be waiting at home, waiting for his daughter to return to the footsteps, waiting for his daughter to return to the knock on the door.
12. Cinema Paradiso
Directed by Giuseppe Tornadore.
12. Enzo Cannavale, Mark? Leonardi
The relationship between an unassuming but lifelong village movie projectionist and a fatherless, poor but bright young child is bound to turn into a father-son relationship. Efedor treats Dodo as if he were his own child, both warmly and sternly; he teaches him how to show movies but warns him that he will not be allowed to do so in the future; he helps him cheat the priests together, and creates the conditions for him to chase girls. He teaches Duo how to go about his life and warns him that he is not allowed to come back to see him if he doesn't make a name for himself. Like all fathers who want their children to have a successful life, he had no qualms about teaching Duo all those life lessons patiently, kindly, and seriously. From his childhood to his teenage years, from his middle age to his twilight years, whether Duo was by his side or not, he was always holding on to him, just like a father holds on to his son who is traveling far away.
13. The Story of Ah Lang
Directed by: Johnnie To
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Elvin Cheung, Huang Kun-Hsuan, Wu Meng-Da, Wang Tian-Lin
The plot follows the story of a rich girl, Bo-Bo, who marries a motorcycle rider, Ah Lang, despite the opposition of her family. The story is about a rich girl, Bo Bo, who marries a motorcycle rider, Ah Lang, despite her family's opposition, and realizes that Ah Lang is addicted to racing and has no time to care about her. Bobo's mother conspires with a doctor to fake the baby's death and trick her into going to the United States. After his release from prison, Lang regrets his past behavior and finds his son Bo from an orphanage, where they live together. 10 years later, Bo returns to Hong Kong to do business with her fiancé and learns that her son has grown into a teenage racecar driver, and she wants to ask Lang's permission to take her son to the United States. The story is about a young man who is still in love with BoBo, and how he is trying to get back together with BoBo, and how he is participating in a car race despite his age and physical condition, and how he was killed in a car accident when he was about to win.
Admire the courage of Johnnie To at the time, because he did not let the movie have a happy ending, but arranged a sad full of the end, so originally thought that the three people can live together again, to enjoy the warmth of the family again, this fantasy but the director was mercilessly broken. At the end of the movie, the bloodstained Lang crossed the finish line, the car flipped, the fire, had unlimited happy vision of the mother and son madly rushed to the fire, but Lang in the flames of the fire forever closed his eyes.
14, "Seven on the Yangtze River"
Directed by: Stephen Chow
Starring: Stephen Chow Xu Jiao, Zhang Yuqi, Lin Zicong
Stephen Chow plays the role of a poor father in the film, and his son lives in a dilapidated house on the side of the main road in Ningbo. In order to enable his son to live a good life, Star is forced to work at a construction site, but he encounters ? The civil workers owed wages? The tragic treatment, not only can not get a paycheck, but also due to? He was beaten by the foreman of the construction site. He was chased and beaten by the foreman. Bleak and miserable, although Zhou's father could not afford to buy hundreds of dollars worth of toys for his son, but could not bear to give up on this, by chance, picked up a very strange thing in the garbage. Chow was very happy, ready to give this thing as a toy to his son. Unexpectedly, this toy is a communicator to contact with aliens. Using this communicator, Stephen Chow's family contacted a very beautiful alien, who was touched by their unwavering love for their father and son, and not only helped them to punish the rich kid who bullied his son at school, but also punished the contractor Lin Zi Cong, who defaulted on his wages and assaulted Stephen Chow?
15. Ocean Paradise
Directed by: Xue Xiaolu
Starring: Jet Li, Article Gui Lun-mei, Gao Yuan-yuan
Wang Xincheng and his son, Dafu, depend on each other for life. Dafu has been suffering from autism since he was a child and is unable to live independently. Dafu's mother committed suicide when Dafu was young because she could not bear the shock of her son's illness. When Wang Xincheng is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he is concerned about Dafu's fate. Dafu meets Ling Ling, an acrobat, who is his only friend at the Oceanarium. In order to prevent Dafu from feeling lonely, Wang Xincheng drags his sick body and pretends to be a sea turtle with a homemade shell on his back to swim with Dafu. He tells Dafu that he will become a turtle and will always be by his side.
16, My Father, My Son
Sadik is a rebellious young Turk. His father wants him to become an agricultural engineer and come back to his village after graduation to manage the family farm. Instead, he became politically active at university and even became a left-wing journalist after graduation. It was the 1970s. on September 12, 1980, there was a military coup in Turkey, and that night Sadik's wife went into labor. Unable to find a doctor, she bled to death after giving birth to Deniz, and Sadik was imprisoned for his radical writings and subjected to lengthy interrogation and torture. After his release, Sadik returned to his hometown with his seven-year-old son Deniz, knowing that it would be difficult to reconcile with his father, but that he had no choice?
17. Father's Pride
The story follows the Marshalls and their aunt's family as they share a villa in Provence for the summer, where they have a lot of fun and fall in love with the land. The story begins with an introduction to the family's life: the father is a curmudgeonly teacher, the mother is always worried that Marcel's head will explode if he reads too many books, but Marcel spends all his time looking for books, even recipes, and the uncle is a bragging civil servant. It's heart-warming coming-of-age comedy with poetic exteriors. Plus, Provence is where "Cavalry on the Roof" takes place
18, "Once Upon a Time in My Childhood"
A family that moves from the mainland to Taiwan has its own preoccupations underneath the apparent calm. The grandmother can't get enough of the mainland, and wants to go back; the parents also have? The family has a lot of problems with the foreigners. Although the parents also have the embarrassment of being a foreigner, they know clearly that going back to the mainland is only a dream; the sister has almost taken herself to be a local Taiwanese, and the occasional sadness and tears are due to the fact that she remembered that she had given up her studies in university to share the burden for her parents; the child, Ah-hsiao Ku, only thinks of how to have fun, and has no concept of the mainland at all, and the death of his father is only a sudden shock, and not too much sadness. However, because of his family's special characteristics, Ah-haogu knows in his ignorance that he is not exactly the same as his peers. Though on the surface he does what most growing boys do (get into fights, start to fall for a girl), on the inside he has already planted the seeds of a sudden breakthrough, waiting for a chance to come.
19: "While My Father Was Alive"
Another favorite of European critics. A variation on The Only Son, but this time it's two fathers and sons who are dependent on each other. The father was a good and decent teacher, but resigned from his job after his student drowned on a school field trip, taking the blame. He goes to Tokyo to work, leaving his son to board at a school in the countryside. The son goes to Sendai University and then to Akita, where he gets a teaching post. He longs to be with his father again, but he never gets to do so. When the son went to Tokyo to take his medical examination for enlistment in the army, he was able to live with his father again, but then his father suddenly fell ill. What is worth living for when you can't count on family? The father finds an answer for his son, but the son's commitment becomes a lifelong one. The few scenes in which the father and son meet by chance are like the realm of disillusionment, and it is saddening to watch.
20, My Father, Romulus.
The story takes place in the 1950s in rural Victoria, Australia, Romanian immigrant Romulus with his 11-year-old son, Mund, living in extreme poverty, Mund's mother, Cristina, can not take up the responsibility of caring for the family, and often do not say goodbye, but Romulus has always been quietly, at all costs, hope to give Raymond to create stability and a loving environment to grow up, even if it is not the case that the mother is not able to take care of the family, often without saying goodbye. loving upbringing, even after his wife cheated on him and gave birth to a daughter with his best friend Mitru. Christine was also unable to care for her daughter, and her relationship with Mitru eventually deteriorated. Cristina returns to Romulus and Mond, but soon commits suicide, which leaves Romulus in a mental hospital with a broken spirit, leaving Ramon to live and take care of himself on his own
21: THE WEATHER PREDATOR
David is a weather forecaster, but he has no expertise to use in his job. He's feeling gray about his life, and his divorce from his wife is a blow to him. Now he's been offered a chance to go back to work in New York, but he has to deal with a difficult relationship with his children. His son, Mike, is sexually molested by a counselor he met while in rehab; his daughter, Cheryl, is stigmatized by her schoolmates for her obesity and has a depressed personality. To add to David's sadness, his novelist father, Robert, is terminally ill. No matter how much effort, his relationship with his family has not been eased, he is still attacked by the audience's garbage, he even began to resist traveling to New York. It is at this point that he sees his father's calm demeanor in the face of death, and in his last moments with him, David is granted many life lessons.
22. The Summer of Kikujiro
Summer vacation comes, and Masuo, a third-grader who lost his father at a young age and now lives with his grandmother, is particularly bored during the summer. He takes out a letter that his mother has sent back from overseas and prepares to visit her by himself in Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture.
A neighbor's aunt finds out and decides to help Masuo fulfill his wish. She gives him some money to pay for the trip and arranges for her idle husband, Kikujiro, to accompany Masuo on his journey to see his mother. However, on the first day, Kikujiro loses all the money given by his wife and the two of them have to walk to Aichi. After hitchhiking and getting into trouble along the way, Kikujiro finally takes Masuo to his mother's house, but the boy is very depressed. On the way back, Kikujiro tries to comfort him, and the two of them have a great time as the summer passes.
23, "With you"
If a father loves his own child that is undoubtedly a thing that we feel logical, and will be his life's work, life savings, life of love to a train station to pick up, no blood relationship between the child that we can only admire the father's greatness and We can only admire the father's greatness and fraternity.
24, "The Mountain? The Man?
As dawn breaks, the father and son of the postman walk out of the house one after the other. This is the father's last mail delivery, because his future work will be handed over to his son. The father has been delivering mail all his life, and he has dedicated his life to the people of the mountains, so he has neglected to take care of his wife and children, even though he loves his home dearly in his heart. Because of the lack of time together, the father in the eyes of the son is unattainable. Walking through the immaculate mountain villages, the mountain people of the old letter carrier's feelings so that the son gradually understand his father's hard work over the years, and slowly realize that the deep-seated love of the father; father also finally as I wish: a life of painstaking, waiting for is to let the son really from the bottom of his heart to look up to themselves. In the process of father and son relay, the son for the first time in his life shouted out? Dad?
25, "Unforgettable"
In Xiaohui's view, her father is perhaps the most archaic and frightening person in the world, who not only prevents her from marrying Wen, but also often comes to sarcastic blows after Wen's death. A wave of sharp, darkly mocking words came out of the huffy father's mouth, while the pliant mother rounded up and counseled Hui, who was stubborn and good-natured enough to forcefully reject her mother's good intentions. Xiaohui did not know, when her father guessed from the table key when she went home will be quietly as unaware, only because her father was afraid that she no longer go home, afraid of hurting her self-esteem, the man is sometimes actually very gentle and delicate. Although it is difficult, Xiaohui finally grew up and matured in life, to her father's seemingly eternal cold tone, but Xiaohui can read the tolerance and warmth.
26, "I'm sorry, thank you"
Achang took over the responsibility of caring for his son from his ex-wife, and he thought it would be a piece of cake. However, his son, who grew up in a foreign country, had a different outlook on things, and it made him feel that his father's authority was being severely challenged. A father's authority is not maintained by lies and power. He does not say polite words like sorry and thank you, nor does he respect his son, nor does he know how to respect everyone around him. When Achang suddenly lost his temper and slapped his son when he was playing around with him, the slap seemed to be on the face of all parents, who only care about the so-called face and authority, which is not bestowed by others, and how can they get it when they can't give it to their sons and daughters.
27. A Letter to My Father
Gong Wei's family lives in a typical Beijing courtyard house. Kung Wei's wife, Zhuo Ling, is seriously ill, but she has always believed that her poor husband, who has never had a proper job, is definitely a good husband and a good father. That evening, a group of police suddenly came and arrested Kung Wei. Before parting, Kung Wei urged his son to study hard and take care of his mother, and also asked his son to believe that he was not a bad person. It turns out that Kung Wei's real identity is a public security police officer, engaged in covert investigative work, this situation due to the need for work, to anyone who needs to be kept secret. He went to Hong Kong this time to blend into a province and Hong Kong crime syndicate headed by Fu Guang undercover, investigating serious cases involving domestic corruption and other cases. A triad deal is secretly conducted in a luxurious hotel. According to the plan, Kung Wei pretends to cover the safe retreat of Fu Guang's gang to blend into Fu Guang's syndicate. However, Kung Wei's appearance attracts the attention of the Hong Kong police. Hong Kong police officer Fong Yat-wah is ordered to go north to Beijing to investigate Kung Wei's background. Fong discovers Kung Wei's true identity at his home, while Kung's wife's condition deteriorates rapidly, and she soon leaves her son Kung Ku to die. Fong takes care of Kung Ku and brings him to Hong Kong, where their relationship grows stronger and stronger. Unexpectedly, Kung Kuo falls into the hands of Po Kwong, who has long suspected Kung Wei's identity and wants to use the child to verify Kung Wei's identity. In the fierce battle of wits and courage with the crime syndicate, father and son work well together and show their skills. With the help of Fong Yat Wah, they finally smash the criminals' plan and kill the evil Fu Kwong. Inside the hospital, Kung Wei hugged his son, who was injured in the battle, tightly and wept hot tears. Consolidation slowly woke up and saw his father and Auntie Fang beside him with a big smile on his face.
28. Isabella
Synopsis:
In 1999, before the return of Macau to China. In the past, the police officer Ma Zhencheng (Chapman To) was suspended from his post because of the trouble he had gotten into, and his career as a police officer was about to end. He meets a mysterious girl named Cheung Pik-yan (played by Leung Lok-sze), who follows him to a night club. When Pik-yan follows him home, he wakes up drunk and thinks he's had a one-night stand with her, plus Pik-yan claims to be the daughter of his first love, which is even more shocking to him.
Pik-yan has been homeless due to months of rent arrears, and her beloved dog Isabella has been evicted by an unscrupulous landlord. As a father, Ma wishes to make up for his past responsibilities, but Pik-yan is determined to live with him, which makes Ma's life change.
In order to protect himself, Ma attempts to risk his own life to get out of the case, and his friend To Sir (Wong Chau Sang) repeatedly urges him to do the same. The film's main attraction is the fact that it is the first of its kind in the world to be released in the United States. However, Ma Zhencheng gradually realized what responsibility is from Zhang Bixin.
29. Fathers and Sons
Synopsis:
Po (played by Wu Jingtao) dreams of sitting on the back of his father's bicycle, holding a windmill in one hand and hugging it tightly with the other, but his dream is shattered. His father, Chow Cheung-shing (Aaron Kwok), has a bad gambling habit, which his mother, Lin (Charlie Young), can't stand and decides to run away before being recaptured. In order to save the couple's already broken relationship, the father wishfully arranges for the whole family to go on a cruise vacation, and the mother takes the opportunity to leave home without returning.
In the midst of his poverty, Zhou Changsheng is pursued by a loan shark, and his repeated disillusionment makes him want to leave Bao behind, but before he can leave, his legs are broken by the debt collector. Father and son embarked on the road to escape, disabled father has no earning capacity, can only force Po to borrow money or even steal. At one point, Po steals and misses, and his cowardly father is powerless to save him? What will happen when the father and son meet again?
30, Jersey Girl
Starring Ben? Affleck, Raquel? Castro. Ollie (Ben Affleck), a music industry publicist, works in Manhattan, New York. He's a smooth-talking, eloquent, super-workaholic with a thriving career, a perfect life, and seems to have it all. At a company Christmas party, Ollie meets Gertrude (Jennifer Lopez), a smart and sexy publisher's editor, and the two fall in love at first sight, marrying on the spur of the moment. But just as their baby girl is born, Gertrude passes away in childbirth, leaving Ollie waiting outside the maternity ward in agony. This tragedy suddenly turns Ou Li into a single father. Emotionally devastated and panicked, he struggles to cope with this new role, he loses the favor of the God of Luck and eventually loses his job. Devastated, Ollie has no choice but to move back to his hometown in the suburbs of New Jersey to live with his old dad. In this countryside where chickens don't shit, birds don't lay eggs, and turtles don't land, Ollie finds a boring job. He is in love with his daughter, Gertie (Rachel Castro), because she looks just like his late wife. Gladys loves the country life and thinks New Jersey is paradise! When Ollie takes his daughter to rent a video, he meets Maya (Liv Tyler), a smart, funny, slender, sensual and feminine woman who works there. Her conversations with Ollie cause him to rethink his priorities in life, challenging his established values and life plans. Ou Li begins to understand that sometimes he has to let go of yesterday's memories and honestly face who he is today in order to live a comfortable and happy life. With the help and encouragement of his daughter, Ollie opens up his heart and believes in love again, and a romantic love affair ensues.
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