Spielberg and the absent father

140   7   6.8 

Lou Jean (Goldie Hawn) breaks her husband (and father of her children) out of jail.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

3651   7.2   8.2 

Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) is obssessed on getting the shark, leaving his family on a second place.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

1672   7.2   7.7 

Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) drifts further and further away from his wife and children after he sees the UFO.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

4249   8   8.7 

Marion's father, Abner Ravenwood died shortly before Indy gets to Nepal to see him.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

5354   7.2   7.9 

Elliot's mom raises him, his brother and his little sister alone.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

3362   7.2   7.6 

Short Round's parents died when Japan bombed Shanghai.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

1173   7.5   7.6 

Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) was sexually abused by her father, forcing her to leave home.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

1114   7.4   7.7 

Jamie Graham (Christian Bale) is separated from his parents after the Japanese attack in China during World War II.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

3758   7.7   8.3 

Henry Jones Sr. (Sean Connery) is the absent father who returns after more than twenty years away.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

282   5.8   6.2 

I've seen this film a long time ago, and I can't remember any major father issues here. Anybody??

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

3233   6.4   6.4 

Peter Banning (Robin Williams) is a workaholic father who gives little attention to his kids.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

6620   7.1   8 

We never see Alex and Tim's parents who seem to be always busy for them, that would explain the connection they have with their grandfather (Richard Attenborough).

And Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) isn't exactly too keen on children initially.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

4693   8.4   8.9 

Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) is like a father figure for the Jews he saved from death.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

3513   6.1   6.3 

Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) is a divorced father who has (against his will) to spend a few days with his daughter Kelly (Vanessa Lee Chester).

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

834   6.7   7.1 

Cinque (Djimon Hounsou) is forced to be the absent father, separated from his wife and kids in Africa to work as a slave in the United States.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

4909   7.7   8.6 

The battalion who goes after Private Ryan, led by Capt. Miller (Tom Hanks) are people who left their families behind.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

3668   6.7   7 

David (Haley Joel Osment) has two father figures: Prof. Hobby (William Hurt) his creator and Henry Swinton (Sam Robards) who 'buys' him to be in his family, and he's abandoned by both.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

4037   6.9   7.7 

John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is a desperate father who can't get over the disappearence of his son many years ago.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

4977   7.3   7.9 

Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) has to leave his father (Christopher Walken), in due to his 'alternative' life style.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

3581   6.8   7.2 

Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) goes to the United States to fulfill the last wish of his deceased father.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

3921   6   6.5 

Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is the divorced father who has to spend a weekend with his children, and that's exactly when the alien attack begins.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

1996   7.2   7.6 

Avner (Eric Bana) is forced to leave his pregnant wife to do some dirty work (misled) for the Iraeli Government.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

2741   6   6.3 

Indy (Harrison Ford) had an absent father in the Last Crusade, and now he is the absent father in the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

665   7   7.2 

This probably has some daddy issues as well. Let's wait and see.