Parenthood

Gil Buckman is the father of three kids and worries about them constantly. He raises them unlike his neglectful father (Jason Robards) raised him His older son is a nervous child who has difficulty coping with set backs, whether it be a lost retainer or a missed catch during little league baseball. To live up to his own idea of what a dad should be Gil sacrifices his career ambitions. This leaves his wife, Karen (Mary Steenburgen), pinching pennies and Gil stressed out. Gil has two sisters, Helen and Susan. Helen is divorced and is raising two teenagers on her own; her daughter is in love with a guy who seems to be a dud, and her son is withdrawn, depressed, and obviously in pain over his father's neglect. Susan is married to a man who is anal-retentive; he is attempting to turn their only daughter, who is only four or five, into some kind of child prodigy by constantly feeding her information and teaching her foreign languages.