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Positive Portrayals of Fathers


and of good male characters. It was nice to see because you don’t get that as much anymore.

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IIRC this girl's dad had died before this story began...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138414/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

are you talking about the 1998 movie?

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No, I was referring to this 2016 version which I watched today. The girl’s father died about a third of the way in but still had two or three scenes with her where he was portrayed favorably. And then there was the Woody Harrelson scenes with his own baby and wife that were also very positive images of father and husband.

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