DAD Movie Analysis

I recently watched the movie titled DAD, this movie was produced in 1989 and starred Jack Lemmon and Ted Danson as well as several other big-name stars. I related to Lemmon and Danson’s characters as I felt that they best represented what this assignment was to be about. This movie was over the top emotional and has many television sitcom moments. I watched the movie with the focus on what it said about death, loss, and grief.
John (Danson) goes home after a long time away when his mother, Bette (Dukakis) had a heart attack. His father Jake (Lemmon), is in what appears to be early stages of dementia and very helpless. Through trying to help his father be more independent, John also learns that he has pushed his own son away. Bette improves, but Jake’s health takes many twists and turns throughout the movie. There was the comatose state, seizures, cancer, and schizophrenia all thrown in there for John, Bette and the rest of the family to deal with. …show more content…
What the movie taught me was that we should fear not living while we are alive more than our eventual death. The characters in the movie had a hard time dealing with their loss and their grief. The family had traditionally sugar coated everything into a nonexistence. If you don’t talk about it then everything is fine. They learned that life does not work that way, by not talking about the mundane or even difficult things Jake had shut off his self and was living a double life in his own imagination. When Jake learned to live and love the life he was given again, his fear of cancer and even death started to