I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

I bought this VHS movie on sale for $5.00 along with other movies back in 2003. The first time I watched it, I couldn't stop crying. I would watch the movie at least once or twice a month. It didn't matter how many times I would watch it, either alone, or with my kids, each time it was as if I was watching it for the very first time. The comedy and drama of the story intertwined so well throughout the movie by the excellent actors and actresses. I loved how the movie touched on the various age groups of the family members and the challenges and humps they overcame throughout.I will ALWAYS promote this movie!

Today August 12, 2008 --- Imagine I may be a little late for a comment --- but I only saw this movie today --- It was so true to life, and tapped into every emotion that one could feel -- going through an experience of the like. I lost my dad, two years ago, and although there were difference in the story line...the essence of it remained the same.....I loved it --- Jack Lemmon was so believable, Ted Danson (who I admit never saw him act outside of cheers was amazing and Olympia (she's a classic --- and so underrated)...My opine - a must see --- for life...Ven

Lemmon gets here an important and ferociously painful to watch feral role.No need to mention that Lemmon immediately gets the upper hand of the other actors.The rest of the cast is simply unimportant.I detest the people who asked Lemmon to act in this movie;it was unspeakable fiendish to ask an only 64 years old Lemmon to appear in such a role.The script narrates many facts,with many twists.An oldster,Jake,78 years,has his insipid routine:the garden,the greenhouse.He "knows his environment".His wife is tough,sarcastic,authoritarian,prosaic,dry;she cares about Jake,but in a wrong,crushing way.She has a heart attack.While she is hospitalized,Jake's son,a "boss",a successful businessman,comes to live with his father and takes charge of him.He finds Jake older than he expected;so,he treats his so old father well,gives him chicken in red wine,etc..Jake learns to drive,does some sport,seems to live again.And,suddenly,he is struck by a misfortune.He got an urinary problem.Then,shock,coma,and a recovery.In fact,he slipped out of his nightmarish world,it hurts him no more.He is a "succesfull schizophrenic",and entirely taken over by his "joy in living" ("sex at all hours",as his wife complains;masquerades;lots of eccentricities).It seems this is the real,the final "Jake T.".He is on the fringe of death.He resumes his life:"We just got off the track a little... a lot".(No need to say that this proletarian, "worker",oldish, senile, decomposed,lop-sided Lemmon character is not the Lemmon we knew from Days of Wine and Roses ,Save the Tiger ,Irma La Douce ,Missing.)"Dad" is an atrocious, dreary,sore, mournful movie.Mind-butchering, brain-slaughtering story. It is psychologically brutal and very cruel.It is a punch in the stomach.

This movie is very 80's like. It instantly brought me back to the good old 80's. This is really not a comedy, but a very serious family drama. Almost every movie came out from Hollywood is for profit only, this movie is very touching, and purely family oriented. I don't know how much it has made so far, but I doubt that it is a popular movie for the general public.Having said that, I think that this movie has touched a very deep part of our lives. All of us have to face the fact that our parents are growing old, and one day they will leave us forever. It is quite emotional. How many of the people living in the USA now have the courage, time and money to actually live with their older parents till the day they apart. This movie brought three generations all together, and showed us a well-done drama. It does not have a happy ending. However, it gives us a very realistic feeling that we all have or had to face. So watch this movie when it is raining outside. I am sure that you can have a good cry.