Daddy

Daddy

1991 · 100 min · ★ 4.8 · TV Movie, Drama, Romance

Oliver Watson has never been luckier: he is a successful advertising executive, shares a marriage of eighteen years with Sarah and has three loving kids: 17-year-old Ben, 15-year-old Melissa, and 9-year-old Sam. His perfect life suddenly falls apart when his wife Sarah announces that she wants to enter a graduate school 200 miles away from home, as she regrets that she gave up her bohemian protester's life and promising writing career to become the wife of a conservative traditionalist. Oliver unsuccessfully tries to save his marriage, until Sarah announces that she is seeing someone else. The children start acting out as a reaction and life is complicated by the death of Oliver’s mother and accepts a job in L.A. where he falls in love with Charlotte Sampson. Life again challenges Oliver when Charlotte is offered her dream job on Broadway.

Directed by Michael Miller · Written by L. Virginia Browne

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Patrick Duffy Oliver Watson
Kate Mulgrew Sara Watson
Ben Affleck Ben Watson
Lynda Carter Charlotte Sampson
John Anderson George Watson
Jenny Lewis Melissa Watson
Matthew Lawrence Sam Watson
Robyn Peterson Daphne Hutchinson
Richard McKenzie Jeremy Bosworth
Georgia Emelin Bobbi
Gloria Dorson Phyllis Watson
Mimi Cozzens Margaret Porter

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