This one was hard. We’ve tried some thematic watching for other holidays that don’t have a lot of movie representation, but figuring out what to do for Father’s day stymied us for years. We have a line up for this year that I like to call: It’s So Hard For a Girl to Make Her Daddy Proud.

• Footloose (1984): Ariel has been pushing against the constraints of her father, the Reverend Moore long before Ren arrives in town and starts testing his own boundaries in the town.
• Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985): Janie breaks from her military routine to take a chance on her dreams and audition for Dance TV. Her father doesn’t accept that it will mean her running loose in a new city on her own.
• Dirty Dancing (1987): Baby finds her own summer adventure helping staff at the summer resort, and for the first time falls out of her father’s favor.

And for a little horror diversion: Hellraiser (1987) is a great father and daughter relationship movie as well.