Father’s Day, the unforgettable fathers of cinema from Mrs Doubtfire to King Richard. PHOTO

A WINNING FAMILY – KING RICHARD – In a list of unforgettable fathers of cinema, one cannot fail to start with one of the most recent. Will Smith won an Oscar for playing Richard Williams, father and coach of tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams

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THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS – Again Will Smith had been the splendid protagonist of Gabriele Muccino’s film (and obtained an Oscar nomination), in which he plays Chris Gardner, who before becoming a billionaire entrepreneur went through a phase of poverty also having to look after his son (who has face of Jaden Smith, son of Will also in reality)

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MRS. DOUBTFIRE – In Chris Columbus’ 1993 film, the protagonist is divorcing his wife. When the judge entrusts custody of the children to the woman, he has to devise a way to see them more often and disguises himself as a housekeeper, a seventy-year-old British, with kind but decisive ways. In this way he manages to spend the whole day with his children until he is discovered. Robin Williams, in one of his most stunning performances, won the Golden Globe for this role

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LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL – Roberto Benigni gave birth to one of the most unforgettable cinematic dads. In his 1997 film he plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish man deported with his family to a Nazi extermination camp during the Second World War. Here he will try to protect his son Joshua from the horror by making him believe that everything is part of a game. For this role he won the Oscar for best actor

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MY NAME IS SAM – Sean Penn earned a well-deserved nomination for Best Actor at the Academy Awards for his moving performance as Sam Dawson, a mentally disabled man forced to raise his beloved daughter Lucy Diamond after her mother abandoned them. Between difficulties, social workers and custody cases, the special bond between father and daughter always remains unchanged, until the happy ending

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BIKE THIEVES – Masterpiece of neorealism, follows the story of Antonio Ricci and his search for the stolen bicycle (which he needs to work as a hitch). In his ups and downs he is often accompanied by his son Bruno and it is precisely the crying of the child that will prevent him from being arrested when, out of his desperation, he himself tries to steal one of his. The final scene with the two walking hand in hand through the crowd in the Roman evening is memorable

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THE LION KING – Disney’s animated masterpiece has among its key points the relationship between the young lion Simba and his father Mufasa. Unforgettable is the story of the Circle of Life, with which the father forms his heir. It is impossible to hold back the tears in the death scene of the king, killed by his evil uncle Scar

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FINDING NEMO – Impossible not to mention the Pixar film, acclaimed by critics and audiences (and winner of the Oscar dedicated to animated films). Clownfish Marlin is a widower and devotes himself with all possible kindness to his only son, Nemo, born with an atrophic fin. When the little one gets away and is taken by a diver, the father begins a long and desperate search accompanied by the forgetful Dory

CAPTAIN FANTASTIC – Viggo Mortensen, who was nominated for an Oscar for this interpretation, is Ben Cash, a nonconformist father who raised his children in the woods, far from consumerism and in harmony with nature. However, the death of his wife forces the family to return to a society they do not know, with all the problems that this entails

THE ROAD – Again Viggo Mortensen plays the protagonist of John Hillcoat’s film, adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Father and son have survived an unspecified global catastrophe and move on foot in a post-apocalyptic and almost deserted world in search of better climatic conditions. The dad will do anything to survive and protect the boy from hunger and gangs of cannibals and criminals

IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER – Jim Sheridan’s acclaimed work, based on a true story, tells the story of some Northern Irish boys falsely accused of an IRA bombing in Guildford. In addition to Gerry Conlon (a great Daniel Day-Lewis), his father also ends up in prison and the two are able to get closer and support each other in the hard shared experience. After the death of the parent, the child will continue his fight for the truth “in the name of the father”

HE GOT GAME – Spike Lee’s film sees a prisoner (Denzel Washington) with a son who is talented in basketball and disputed among the most prestigious American universities. The prison director offers him a significant reduction in his sentence if he manages to convince him to choose the university he is rooting for. Thus father and son have the opportunity to spend time together and build a relationship of trust and dialogue that they have never had

BIG FISH – Tim Burton’s 2003 film, in the style of the American director, is the story of a man who has spent his life telling almost fantastic stories, to the point that his son deems him a liar and breaks off relations with him. But in the end the two will reconcile and the son will realize that the parent’s love for storytelling was genuine and his adventures far from invented

KRAMER VERSUS KRAMER – The divorce movie most famous ever, winner of 5 Oscars, tells the legal battle between the spouses Ted and Joanna Kramer (played by Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep) for the custody of little Billy, in which a fundamental role is played by the caring father-son relationship

THE KEYS OF THE HOUSE – Gianni Amelio’s touching 2004 film is the story of a young father (Kim Rossi Stuart) who abandoned his son suffering from a neuromotor pathology after birth. After 15 years the man decides he wants to enter the boy’s life and takes him to a clinic in Germany to follow some therapies. The journey and the time spent with his son are finally an opportunity to get to know him well and learn to love him

BEAUTIFUL BOY – Based on two autobiographical books and therefore based on a true story, the 2018 film by Felix Van Groeningen tells the story of David Sheff (played by Steve Carell), a father who tries to help his son Nic (Timothée Chalamet) get out from drug addiction

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