Old school
meets new school parenting when comedy legends Billy Crystal and Bette Midler
play Artie and Diane Decker, who are called in by their daughter Alice (Marisa
Tomei) to help care for their three grandkids. When their parenting methods
collide, the once-orderly household gets out of control.
From family
filmmaker Andy Fickman (best known for “The Game Plan,” “You Again,” She’s the
Man” and “Race To Witch Mountain”), “Parental Guidance” spins into a heartwarming
chaos when Alice calls on her parents to help watch her kids when she needs to
leave town for work. When left with their grandkids, Artie and Diane
employ unexpected tactics which means using some new parenting style to
help teach their grandkids how to act and behave like kids.
Written by
Billy Crystal, the movie is inspired from his own experience when their
granddaughters stayed with them for five days when their kids went away.
“And on the sixth day, I rested. I came to the office and I said, ‘Okay,
here’s the movie: it’s old school/new school. It’s trying to follow all
the rules that my kids had about how to take care of the girls. And it
could really be a movie for everybody; a family movie that could be really
funny, which it is, and very touching, and have lessons learned. It took
a long time to get this made, but here we are,” Crystal shares.
Crystal, one
of the most celebrated and acclaimed personalities on and off screen when asked
about his parenting style says that “The key to being a good grandparent is
being a good parent first. It’s not necessarily right, just because the
way things are done now, but you do have to respect the fact that they’re not
your kids. So I think that’s a really important thing, is the time that you have
with them has to be special. And it has to also be non-threatening and
understood that you’re an extension of the parents. And then when
nobody’s looking you spoil them.”
“Parental
Guidance” opens January 16 from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by
Warner Bros.
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