{"id":10903,"date":"2024-06-14T08:40:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T12:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=10903"},"modified":"2024-04-23T08:55:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T12:55:37","slug":"holidays-in-the-movies-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/06\/14\/holidays-in-the-movies-fathers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays in the Movies: Father&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/0\/00\/Girls_just_want_to_have_fun.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This one was hard.  We&#8217;ve tried some thematic watching for other holidays that don&#8217;t have a lot of movie representation, but figuring out what to do for Father&#8217;s day stymied us for years.  We have a line up for this year that I like to call:  It&#8217;s So Hard For a Girl to Make Her Daddy Proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Footloose_(1984_film)\">Footloose<\/a> (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. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Girls_Just_Want_to_Have_Fun_(film)\">Girls Just Want to Have Fun<\/a> (1985):  Janie breaks from her military routine to take a chance on her dreams and audition for Dance TV.  Her father doesn&#8217;t accept that it will mean her running loose in a new city on her own.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dirty_Dancing\">Dirty Dancing<\/a> (1987):  Baby finds her own summer adventure helping staff at the summer resort, and for the first time falls out of her father&#8217;s favor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And for a little horror diversion:  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hellraiser\">Hellraiser<\/a> (1987) is a great father and daughter relationship movie as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one was hard. We&#8217;ve tried some thematic watching for other holidays that don&#8217;t have a lot of movie representation, but figuring out what to do for Father&#8217;s day stymied us for years. We have a line up for this year that I like to call: It&#8217;s So Hard For a Girl to Make Her&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/06\/14\/holidays-in-the-movies-fathers-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holidays in the Movies: Father&#8217;s Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-10903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-holidays-in-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10450,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/09\/25\/holidays-in-the-movies-calendar-summary\/","url_meta":{"origin":10903,"position":0},"title":"Holidays in the Movies:  calendar summary","author":"leems","date":"September 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the past few years we have been cultivating holiday themed watching to get us in the right frame of mind for every holiday. 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