Never Cinever

  ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Parenthood, directed by Ron Howard, follows the ups and downs of the Buckman family and the inner lives of the four siblings, Gil (Steve Martin), Helen (Dianne Weist), Larry (Tom Hulce), and Susan (Harley Jane Kozak). While Gil struggles with juggling his career as a sales executive and family, finding out his son has emotional problems and that there's another baby on the way only worsens the situation and strains his marriage with his wife, Karen (Mary Steenburgen). Helen, a divorced mother of two, struggles against an angsty, disconnected son (Joaquin Phoenix) and a rebellious daughter (Martha Plimpton) and her boyfriend (Keanu Reeves). Larry, a gambler who coasts life with get-rich-quick schemes, is their father Frank's (Jason Robards) favourite and shows up one day with the product of an affair with a showgirl, a young biracial son named Cool. Helen, a teacher married to Nathan (Rick Moranis), struggles to cope with her husband's domineering attitude to their...