Dad
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Dad -- When a heart attack fells the domineering wife (Olympia Dukakis) of a 78-year-old man (Jack Lemmon), he relearns independence from his adult son (Ted Danson), but then suffers a series of illnesses require new priorities for the family. Though writer-director Gary David Goldberg's sudsy serio-comic effort has various plot lapses and excessive climaxes, it offers some worthwhile insights on the subject of parenting one's parents and coping with their illnesses and death. Mild sexual innuendo and minimal rough language. (A-II) (PG) 1989
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The classifications are as follows:
- A-I -- general patronage;
- A-II -- adults and adolescents;
- A-III -- adults;
- A-IV**
- L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
- O -- morally offensive.
** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.