Top Ten Movies about Parenthood #10

Something new has happened to my wife and I!!  The Stork has decided to drop on by and present us with a baby boy, and I'm assuming he arrived by Stork, and that he wasn't created the way it was shown to me by Jack and Rose in Titanic.  I was going to go back to my African American roots and name him Demarcus, but then caved to a more Celtic name because it was just straight awesome, For Certain reasons lets call him D for short.  Now that my son is born it made me reflect back on some of the better movies out there with a central theme of Parenthood, and let me tell you there are a lot.  To narrow them down to only a few, I'm going to give you my top 10 Parenthood movies that I feel every parent needs to view at least once.

10.  What to Expect When You’re Expecting

Everybody wants a baby right now!!  Some are prepared, some are not, some want a baby, and some don’t give a crap, and then some are Jennifer Lopez.  The movie takes the Love Actually way of telling a story of pregnant women, meaning that there are several characters in different stories involved in some ways of having a baby.  Some of the stories are noteworthy and some are just unrealistically stupid, but the one that stood out to me the most is between my 2^nd love Elizabeth Banks and Ben Falcone.  Their story is one of a couple parents who desperately want kids but are unable, even though Banks owns a baby shop.  Despite all the trials/troubles they were finally able to get pregnant, and even though Ben’s dad gets his wife pregnant at the same time with twins and treat it like it's some kind of competition, Falcone and Banks are extremely grateful for their child, and treat him like he’s the greatest treasure on earth… I'm hoping that the baby they have in the movie is a boy because otherwise I would be sounding really stupid right now.

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