Dad

Dad is a 1989 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Gary David Goldberg, and starring Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Baker, Kevin Spacey, and Ethan Hawke. It is based on William Wharton's 1981 novel. The original music score was composed by James Horner. The film was produced by Amblin Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures.

Dad currently holds a 58% rating on website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 12 critics with a weighted average of 5.5/10. Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote, "Dad is a melodramatic plumbing of the relationship between two generations of fathers and sons, and it runs through nearly the entire gamut of emotionally loaded issues, from infirmity and senility to reconciliation and death."