By skyforbes My husband is an actor and loves movies, so 99% of the time the movies we watch together are movies he suggests, which is great.
However, on the truly rare occasion that I suggest a movie or tv show to watch, there is always, ALWAYS a dead dad plot line in the movie in some shape or form.
It started a month or so after his dad passed when I suggested we watch an episode of Modern Family. The episode we had queued up was an episode where Jay deals with the existential dread of now being older than his father was when he died.
From there it happened gradually and we didn’t notice for a while. I don’t remember when exactly we notice but it because too frequent to ignore that every single time I suggest something to watch, boom, dead dad mentioned.
I have almost certainly missed several movies, tv shows or documentaries, but it became so uncanny I started making a list. As recently as last night when I showed my husband Beauty Shop because he’d never seen it. Queen Latifah’s character mentioned her husband had died and her daughter has been struggling with it, to which my husband automatically said out loud “dead dad”.
You’d think I’d be on the lookout for it after all this time, but it still always catches us off guard. I am not religious by any means but I am certain the spirit of my father in law just thinks this is a hilarious joke. Anyway here’s the list:
The Proposal
Princess Diaries
Pretty Woman
Knives Out
How I Met Your Mother
Ever After
Man In The Moon
One More Mile Documentary
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Freaky Friday
Mulan
Beauty Shop