Worst parents on film?

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HollyGolightly

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Robert DeNiro's 'Dwight' in This Boy's Life.

The parents in Matilda were pretty bad, as were most of those in the two Chocolate Factory movies. The author in real life, Roald Dahl, is said to have been absolutely horrible to his second daughter--worse as he was apparently all right to his other children and just took everything out on the one.

Another pair of awful parents by the author of The Great Santini appear in Prince of Tides.

All-time prize for awfulness goes to Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in The Shining.

Those were my picks too!

I think there are some movies I need to watch: Ordinary People, The Great Santini (I love Pat Conroy, I can't believe I never watched this).

This is a timely topic for me, as I've been pondering something similar all morning.
 

GNTLGNT

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Immortan Joe from Mad Max: Fury Road
Played by Hugh Keays-Byrne
Parental Sins: Forced polygamy; treating his wives like sex slaves; killing his own unborn child (and its mother) in a bloody chase across a post-apocalyptic wasteland; ignoring his grown son, Rictus Erectus, who looks like he could really use a positive male role model in his life, in order to retrieve Max and the missing wives; assorted acts of sickening misogyny. Other than that, though, he seems like a decent guy

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ghost19

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Immortan Joe from Mad Max: Fury Road
Played by Hugh Keays-Byrne
Parental Sins:
Forced polygamy; treating his wives like sex slaves; killing his own unborn child (and its mother) in a bloody chase across a post-apocalyptic wasteland; ignoring his grown son, Rictus Erectus, who looks like he could really use a positive male role model in his life, in order to retrieve Max and the missing wives; assorted acts of sickening misogyny. Other than that, though, he seems like a decent guy

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Plus....he gets a few props for hiring this guy...lol


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