Mrs. Doubtfire
This seems like a lighthearted child film, but the more you think about it, the closer it is to the Dirty Harry universe. It’s also very 90s, large parts of the jokes wouldn’t fly nowadays. Chris Columbus is the best at working with kids, it’s uncanny.
A marriage breaks apart: Danny, voice actor, primma dona, and spontaneous goofball, and Miranda, architect, serious routine-follower, and person that labels her spice rack. The three kids are sad, but the judge sides with the mother.
The mother hires an housekeeper, and the winner is the husband in Big Momma costume (it’s literally the same makeup artist!). They get along very well, the woman feels very comfortable in talking about very intimate sex stuff, not knowing it’s her ex-husband under the mask.
When an ex-boyfriend comes up, now a millionaire, the housekeeper is a total bitch, contrasting with her nice old Mary Poppins persona. The older kids find out when they see the old woman piss standing up, with full cock and balls (offscreen), but they keep quiet since they want to be with their dad.
It all comes to an end when the father and Mrs. Doubtfire have a dinner on the same restaurant at the same time, to prepare his new TV show on one hand, and meeting the idiot richy rich on the other. After about then whiskys and a lot of white wine, both are completely drunk, and it goes wrong.
Mommy finds out and goes absolutely ballistic. They even cut the worst part. On the next custody hearing, the woman gets the kids to herself. Eventually, she relents and they go for shared custody, but they might not get back together.
The best example of the changing social mores is that the boy is absolutely disgusted at his father is dressed as a woman, won’t even touch him, and the father makes sure they know he’s not into drag, he doesn’t dress is woman’s clothing for fun. And he did not had a sex change operation at all, he was not emasculated.
At least the little kid turned out OK.
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