Daddy

wow... i was forced to watch this in my lifestyles theology class during our section on sexuality. the lesson we all learned from it was if you say no, you become valedictorian but if you don't, you have a kid, who cries all the time, drop out of school, go on welfare, have a boyfriend who really doesn't know if he loves you or not and he eventually ends up working at an ice cream shop and going to night school. lol. just bad but amusing.

Really quite terrible, with bad acting. With two actors who are now more experienced and are much better than what they were here, this movie is about the pressure of a relationship troubled by a baby while the couple is still in high school. Handled quite well, but ultimately is quite annoying and stupid. Thank goodness Patricia Arquette changed her look since this movie!

I saw this movie in my Health class when we were learning about pregnancy. It was funny when the blonde one kept on whining "I want my chips!" I liked it when the dad said "it has fingers!" to the baby. This movie has some stupid characters that make you wanna laugh!

I put this on to have in the background whilst doing a few chores as I love Patricia Arquette and, oddly, I thought it was very good all things considered.

I consider myself a bad movie connaisseur - this wasn't one of them.

This was a made for TV or education movie about sex, relationships & teenage pregnancy; you shouldn't go into it expectingng Oscar worthy writing. That said, it was surprisingly well acted, and aside from a few very on the nose comments about sexual health, the dialogue wasn't that corny (again, I've seen Neil Breen - you want a bad movie, I can give you a bad movie).

A lot of these reviews are complaining about one main character or the other, when really the whole point of this movie wasn't to have a likable character, it was to demonstrate the trials and woes that can afront young adults in the world of dating. Everyone during that movie was a little messed up and I felt uncomfortable by the actions of every single character at one point or another (with maybe the exception of the best friend, Dewy, who seemed dope).

I made the title of this review a quote from the movie because I thought the portrayal of Bobby's persistence in trying for sex was uncomfortably accurate and I think if more educational videos were made like this it would help quite a lot of young people. A lot of the time they portray the "no means no" message in media in a way that's one extreme or another but this movie showed that a lot of the time rejections are shades of grey and just because they rejection is soft, that doesn't mean it isn't any less valuable. Wish my younger self had seen this.

Anyways, I really liked this movie and if for whatever reason you find yourself nostalgic for the 80s and needing to educate a bunch of 14 year olds, I highly recommend this movie.

One qualm, I guess, is the information about IUDs is outdated but that's the only thing I noticed that was no longer accurate. For a movie that came out in 1987, that's pretty good.

Ok...we all remember after school specials. "Daddy" is so much better. We had to watch it in my high school health class, and let me tell you, it quickly became a favorite. All of the urban legends on how NOT to get pregnant come to life in this movie. Come on!!! To hear Dermot Mulroony say "but I pulled out, how can you be pregnant?" is so beautiful, because he really does look confused and you know that as stupid as it seems, some people actually learned a lesson from this movie. I just get entertainment every time I see it. Everyone who watches "Daddy" should end up happy. (and informed!) Oh, and if you like this movie, look for another made for tv movie starring Calista Flochart as an anorexic-bulimic. Shocking, I know.