Parenthood The Rewatchables
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Parenthood

Most Rewatchable Scene

Robards’s end-zone speech into the Little League catch and dance

In the discussion (14)
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  • The opening minivan chaos, with children piling out, a small naked boy wearing a holster and a daughter throwing up, is nominated as capturing life with young kids.
  • Larry’s dinner pitch for hydroponics is nominated as the kind of sales pitch one host loves in movies.
  • The principal telling Gil and his wife that Kevin needs a special school is praised as well written, though not the most rewatchable.
  • The birthday party sequence is favored for Cowboy Gil, the boy banging his pail-covered head into the wall, the grandmother on helium, and the stripper mix-up at the lodge.
  • Helen discovering Garry’s tape, Keanu Reeves’s character explaining Garry’s masturbation, and the grandmother asking what channel it is are nominated.
  • Gil and his wife searching the garbage for a retainer, with Gil reflecting that children are perfect until they grow up to be like him, is a smaller nomination.
  • Robards’s father character seeking Gil’s advice with the no-end-zone speech leads into the Little League game; that stretch is declared a winner and favorite part of the movie.
  • The Little League dance is called perhaps the best moment of Steve Martin’s career for his physical comedy; he first taunts Clint Howard’s character, and his wife’s perspective contrasts his intensity.
  • The grandmother’s roller-coaster speech works because it is corny and the characters are dismissive before its meaning lands.
  • The closing hospital montage is called heartwarming despite a risk of corniness.
  • The first choice is Dianne Wiest reviewing the photographs Julie and her boyfriend took, balancing concern, fury and admiration, with favorite lines about the vibrator and Garry. — Van Lathan
  • Two more choices follow: Larry’s confrontation with his father, where their father favors Larry because Larry absorbed his philosophy while Gil rejected it, and the vibrator scene. — Van Lathan
  • Given the choice between the photographs and the Little League game, the second baseball game is chosen because of Robards and Martin. — Chris Ryan
  • Another participant says the second baseball game is also their choice.