Single Parent Movies
Here’s a list I’ve been compiling since I started a thread on the Cafemom Single Mom’s group. Please feel free to add movies you think should be included. This page is a work in progress. Eventually I will sub-categorize them as well.
- Erin Brockovich
- Waitress
- North Country
- The First Wives Club
- Set it Off
- The Joy Luck Club
- Chocolat
- All About my mother
- Little Women
- Beautiful
- Mermaids
- Where the Heart Is
- Anywhere but Here
- Hideous Kinky
- Finding Neverland
- White Oleander
- Daddy’s Little Girls
- Bye Bye Love
- Finding Nemo
- Lilo & Stitch
- About a Boy
- Soul Food
- Enough
- How Stella Got her Groove Back
- Parenthood
- Spanglish
- Panic Room
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- Jerry Maguire-“A real man would not shoplift the pootie from a single mother”
- Absolutely Fabulous- Ok not a movie, but deserves a shout out.
- Terms of Endearment
- In the Bedroom
- As Good As it Gets
- Riding in Cars With Boys
- Stepmom
- Dear Frankie
- Dan in Real Life
- Sherrybaby /(trailer)
- One Fine Day
- Once
- Beaches
- Definitely, Maybe
- Hope Floats
- Phenomenon
- Loverboy
- Home for the Holidays
- The Land Before Time
- Forces of Nature
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Pre-Single Mommyhood
Definitely, Maybe
Nanny McPhee! Though I suppose that is a bad example..
Riding in Cars with Boys, for part of it.
I love the Liam Neeson, single dad storyline in Love, Actually. I am just a sucker for that movie all-around though.
How about Phenomenon? Kyra Sedgwick’s character is a beautiful example of a single mom.
(It’s on TV right now…I’ve seen this movie many times, and this just now hit me.)
What about Hope Floats? And I’m SHOCKED to not see Beaches on there!!
Alph called and insisted that I pick out a movie for him to rent us tonight, so I came here to find one.
Just thought I’d share.
Fried Green Tomatoes…super single mom and her super best friend…
Hi!
Good post
Respect!
Sixth sense- I always get teary when single mum played by Toni Collette is told the answer to her question to her parents is Every Day and her little boy asks what’s the question and she says Do I make you proud? It just captures that sense of isolation I can really relate