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After getting laid off, being a stay-at-home dad while macho advertising exec Martin Mull sniffs around working mom wife Teri Garr may have been emasculating for poor Michael Keaton — but don’t fret. This was still the ’80s, so in the end mom decides she misses the kids too much to keep working, dad goes back to work, and Martin Mull goes on to play a gay dude on Roseanne.Â
Watch on Amazon and iTunes.
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The cramped-car road trip vacations of our childhood always kinda sucked, but you and dad will remember them as a week on a Hawaiian beach compared to Sparky and his brood’s cross-country trip in the Family Truckster.
Watch on Amazon and iTunes.
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Nov. 25 (2 p.m.)
Edmund Gwenn earned his Oscar with this portrayal of the saintly Kris Kringle who gets institutionalized for being ”insane” when he claims to be Santa Claus. In the end, he made us all believers.
Mr. Mom (1983)
After getting laid off, being a stay-at-home dad while macho advertising exec Martin Mull sniffs around working mom wife Teri Garr may have been emasculating for poor Michael Keaton — but don’t fret. This was still the ’80s, so in the end mom decides she misses the kids too much to keep working, dad goes back to work, and Martin Mull goes on to play a gay dude on Roseanne.Â
Watch on Amazon and iTunes.
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National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
The cramped-car road trip vacations of our childhood always kinda sucked, but you and dad will remember them as a week on a Hawaiian beach compared to Sparky and his brood’s cross-country trip in the Family Truckster.
Watch on Amazon and iTunes.
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Miracle on 34th Street (NBC)
Nov. 25 (2 p.m.)
Edmund Gwenn earned his Oscar with this portrayal of the saintly Kris Kringle who gets institutionalized for being ”insane” when he claims to be Santa Claus. In the end, he made us all believers.
