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Margaret's avatar

The recent-ish Italian movie The Eight Mountains was the most only child-ass movie I, an only child, have seen in many a year. What AOUS misses is the threat of the only child, to have all the attention taken away from you and bestowed on another, although it does nail the particular devastation of disappointing your parents when you're the last of the line.

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Will Sharp's avatar

The only time travel parent feelings movie for my money is Petit Maman. The parents are the least interesting thing about All of Us Strangers

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puckworth bartleby's avatar

“Belle graduates from the school of understanding her father to being awarded with trying to understand the Beast”

“A broken animal is the only husband Belle would ever consider leaving her father for; she is satisfied. It’s only once the Beast proves he can be even needier than her own father that she begins to reciprocate his feelings for her.”

Once Google aggressively thought I might be interested in what it called “Peter Pan and Wendy” relationships and I certainly have no idea why.

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