Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PARENTHOOD Directed by Ron Howard...
...provide a goal line we can cross with cheers ringing in our ears, an end zone where we can spike the ball and do a victory dance. What it provides, in dizzying abundance, is one damned thing after another. This vividly expressed thought comes to us courtesy of Parenthood's Jason Robards, who plays Frank, the grandpaterfamilias of a clan he has considerable reason to wish he had not extended quite so extensively back when he was young and frisky...
...Maybe Parenthood should have toughed out more of its stories or left a couple of them dangling ambiguously. And the baby boomlet at the end, to which all branches of the family contribute, may strike viewers as a little too resounding a triumph of hope over experience. It can be argued, however, that a picture that confronts the ordinary bedevilments of middle-class life as honorably as this one does has earned the right to a little happiness. Besides, it's always better to change a diaper than to curse the darkness...
Faye Wattleton, president of Planned Parenthood, said further delay would be "an indication of the turmoil that this court is willing to create in this country...
...long-time Cambridge resident, Davis served on the boards of the Cambridge School Volunteers, Massachusetts Planned Parenthood, the International Women's Health Coalition and the International Baccalaureate...