History CallingTheOldManOut / Film

* In ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', when the aliens take over the town, Chicken Little's father, Buck, tries to force him to hide. Chicken Little refuses, saying he knows how to stop the invasion, but Buck refuses to listen. Which is when Chicken Little tells Buck he was never there for him, and [[TheCassandra when he tried to warn everyone in town of the signs of the incoming aliens,]] Buck sided with the townsfolk and assumed that his son was insane. Buck apologizes for how he treated him and they work together to stop the invasion.

* ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'': After years of [[ParentalNeglect neglect]] and [[WellDoneSonGuy paternal disapproval]], [[TheCaligula Commodus]] delivers a [[CryForTheDevil truly heart-wrenching one]] to his father, Marcus Aurelius.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', when the aliens take over the town, Chicken Little's father, Buck, tries to force him to hide, but Chicken Little refuses saying he knows how to stop the invasion, but Buck refuses to listen. Which is when he tells Buck he was never there for him, [[TheCassandra when he tried to warn everyone in town of the signs of the incoming aliens,]] Buck sided with the townsfolk and assumed that Chicken Little was insane. Buck apologizes for how he treated him and they work together to stop the invasion.

** She later does this to her real father after she nearly dies from mercenaries that the King hired to retrieve something without telling her, calling him out on how overprotective he is to the point of sending guards to watch over her and invading her privacy and how he essentially acts no better than Gothel. Too bad the King didn't listen as he continues to confine her under maximum security protection, even as his wife ended up getting kidnapped due to underestimating the bad guy as JustAKid.

* ''Film/Cherrybomb2009'': Luke steps in to prevent his raging alcoholic father from killing himself and the father responds by punching him. At this point Luke snaps completely (having put up with a LOT of crap by this point), hitting his dad back and berating him for being such a useless parent. As if to illustrate this point, the next day the father uses this incident as an excuse to leave town and abandon his son (who is 16 and has no mother) entirely, despite Luke apologising for what he'd done and pleading with him to stay.
* Martha does this to her aunt who raised her in ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour''. She was too busy pursuing her acting career to testify in her and her friend's court trial, which caused them to lose it and essentially ruined their lives, but despite this, she came crawling back to them pretending she will be there for them now.

* ''Film/DearZindagi'': At her brother's welcome-home party Kaira yells at her parents for abandoning her at her grandparents' as a child while they tried to rebuild their business and their constant dissatisfaction with her life.

* ''Film/DoctorSleep'' has an excellent example of this as [[spoiler: Daniel Torrance gets to do a post mortem version to the ghost of his father [[Film/TheShining Jack Torrance]] (in the form “Lloyd” the bartender). Sitting at the bar Dan [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech spells out]] how much Jack ruined his wife and son’s lives, to the extent where Wendy couldn’t even look her son in the eyes without being [[TraumaButton reminded]] of Jack forcing Dan to mercifully use his [[PsychicPowers power]] to help her cope to her dying day. “Lloyd” doesn’t respond to this speech but offers Dan a drink to make him feel better and Dan notes how alcohol was the [[TheAlcoholic source]] of both their problems. Finally dropping the facade Jack (showing not even being trapped in a hotel forever has humbled him) explains that having to be there for a nagging wife and mewling son sickened him and whiskey was the only “medicine” before offering the glass again. Dan refuses once more, infuriating Jack who breaks the glass on the counter]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Wishology}}'', Timmy Turner directs this, combined with WhatTheHellHero, at both Jorgen Von Strangle and Turbo Thunder about always attacking the Darkness because it looked "scary", not because it did anything. Both Turbo and Jorgen are at least thousands of years old, making it kind of calling the ''really'' old men out.
* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': Nemo has done this to his [[HelicopterParents overprotective dad]] Marlin. [[TwoWordsAddedEmphasis Three little words:]] "I hate you."
* In the Disney film ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}},'' Quasimodo gives an incredible speech to Frollo, the judge who raised him.
--> '''Frollo:''' Now- now, l-listen to me, Quasimodo-\\

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': Tai Lung angrily calls out his adoptive father, Shifu, when he returns to claim the Dragon Scroll. Angrily relaying that everything he ever did was to make him proud. And his fury over Shifu not doing anything when he was denied the scroll:
-->'''Tai Lung:''' All I ever did, I did to make you proud! Tell me how proud of me you are, Shifu! Tell me! (''Punch'') '''TELL ME!'''

* For most of ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}},'' [[ProperLady Abuela Alma]] just treats [[MuggleBornOfMages Mirabel]] a bit coldly, but it's not too noticeable, since she's [[ControlFreak demanding in general]]. Around the third act, however, she makes clear that she blames Mirabel for everything bad that's happened to them during the film, and Mirabel calls her out for making them a family of {{Stepford Smiler}}s. (Though unlike many examples of this trope, [[ParentsAsPeople they make up by the end]].)
-->'''Mirabel:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion I will]] ''[[ArmorPiercingQuestion never]]'' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion be good enough for you, will I?]] No matter how hard I try...no matter how hard ''any'' of us try. [[SuperStrength Luisa]] will ''never'' be [[TheReliableOne strong enough]]. [[GreenThumb Isabela]] won't be ''[[BrokenAce perfect]]'' enough. [[WaifProphet Bruno]] left our family because you only saw the ''worst'' in him! \\
'''Alma:''' Bruno didn't ''care'' about this family! \\
'''Mirabel:''' ''He'' loves this family. ''I'' love this family. We all ''love'' this family! You're the one that doesn't care! You're the one who's [[LiteralMetaphor breaking our home]]! \\
'''Alma:''' Don't you EVER--! \\
'''Mirabel:''' [[WhamLine The miracle is dying because of]] ''[[WhamLine you]]!''

* ''Film/KissKissBangBang'': A somewhat KickTheSonOfABitch example is found at the end, where a father on his deathbed is slapped around and insulted by Gay Perry for sexually molesting his daughter. Harry at the end justifies this by saying, "Don't worry, he was creepy."

* ''Film/DoctorSleep'' has an excellent example of this as [[spoiler: Daniel Torrance gets to do a post mortem version to the ghost of his father [[Film/TheShining Jack Torrance]] (in the form “Lloyd” the bartender). Sitting at the bar Dan [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech spells out]] how much Jack ruined his wife and son’s lives, to the extent where Wendy couldn’t even look her son in the eyes without being [[TraumaButton reminded]] of Jack forcing Dan to mercifully use his [[PsychicKids power]] to help her cope to her dying day. “Lloyd” doesn’t respond to this speech but offers Dan a drink to make him feel better and Dan notes how alcohol was the [[TheAlcoholic source]] of both their problems. Finally dropping the facade Jack (showing not even being trapped in a hotel forever has humbled him) explains that having to be there for a nagging wife and mewling son sickened him and whiskey was the only “medicine” before offering the glass again. Dan refuses once more, infuriating Jack who breaks the glass on the counter]].

* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': Nemo has done this to his OverprotectiveDad Marlin. [[TwoWordsAddedEmphasis Three little words:]] "I hate you."

* In the Disney film ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}},'' Quasimodo gives an incredible speech to Frollo, the churchman who raised him.

* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'': [[spoiler: When Admiral Marcus is about to destroy the defenseless Enterprise -- after kidnapping Carol with the Transporter -- Carol [[ArmorPiercingSlap slaps his face,]] shouting, "I'm ashamed to be your daughter!" She still screams when Khan kills him]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime III: The Time Of The Great Giving'', Cera does this to her father shortly after he forbids her from seeing Littlefoot, whom he sees as a bad influence.

* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': In the climax, after Ming has transformed, attacked a concert, and seems ready to hurt her friends, Mei finally snaps and yells at her over [[MyBelovedSmother her controlling behavior]], saying that the concert was her idea, that she's not the perfect little girl Ming thinks she is, and that she's tired of her mother's impossible standards.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters,'' due to some AdaptationalVillainy, [[spoiler:Bekka did this to her grandfather, Highfather, after be betrayed and killed the Apokoliptians, including Orion]]:

** Later on in the same film, Cera's father, having realized that he was never the best parent for his daughter, calls out another one who's overly strict and harsh behavior leads his own son to become [[TheBully the local bully]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': In the climax, after Ming has transformed, attacked a concert, and seems ready to hurt her friends, Mei finally snaps and yells at her over her controlling behavior, saying that the concert was her idea, that she's not the perfect little girl Ming thinks she is, and that she's tired of her mother's impossible standards.

** After bottling up her emotions for years and even attempting suicide rather than actually address it, Noni finally calls her mother out on being a micromanaging, [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]], StageMom. She isn't wrong and her mother slaps her in frustration.
* ''Film/BlackSnakeMoan'': For a female example, Christina Ricci's character Rae calls out her mom in the middle of a Quick Stop over her mother willfully ignoring years of sexual abuse. This leads to a full out brawl in the middle of the store aisles.

* ''Film/{{CreedII}}'' has Viktor Drago calling out his dad, Ivan, for trying to suck up to the same people that used and threw him aside decades ago, including his ex-wife, Ludmilla. Unlike most examples of this trope, Viktor actually deeply loves and respects his father and is only criticizing him for not standing for himself.

* ''Film/DoctorSleep'' has an excellent example of this as [[spoiler: Daniel Torrance gets to do a post mortem version to the ghost of his father [[Film/TheShining Jack Torrance]] (in the form “Lloyd” the bartender). Sitting at the bar Dan [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech spells out]] how much Jack ruined his wife and son’s lives, to extent where Wendy couldn’t even look her son in the eyes without being [[TraumaButton reminded]] of Jack forcing Dan to mercifully use his [[PsychicKids power]] to help her cope to her dying day. “Lloyd” doesn’t respond to this speech but offers Dan a drink to make him feel better and Dan notes how alcohol was the [[TheAlcoholic source]] of both their problems. Finally dropping the facade Jack (showing not even being trapped in a hotel forever has humbled him) explains that having to be there for a nagging wife and mewling son sickened him and whiskey was the only “medicine” before offering the glass again. Dan refuses once more, infuriating Jack who breaks the glass on the counter]].

'''Catherine:'''I won't promise.\\

'''Catherine:''' You'd like to think of me sitting in dignity in this handsome house--rich, respected and unloved. But I may take your money and chase after Morris and squander it on him.\\

* ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'': In the book, James's Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker were run over by the peach and killed. In the movie, however, they catch up to James when he finally makes it to New York City. James is alone, no idea where his friends are, and the townspeople who witnessed his arrival are too flabbergasted by what's going on to do anything but stand there and watch, yet he tells his [[EvilMatriarch evil aunts]] "I said, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis no. I'm. NOT!]] I hate that house and that cold room, and how I'm always hungry! ''(crowd gasps)'' And how you beat me! ''(crowd gasps again and turn to Sponge and Spiker)'' AND TELL ME I WAS NOTHING!" When Sponge and Spiker tell him to shut up, he replies, "No, not this time! I flew a giant peach across the ocean. ''I'' landed on the tallest building in the world! ''I'' made it! I'm not the one who's nothing, [[ThisLoserIsYou YOU are]], and I'm never going back with you! Not me, and not the peach!" They retaliate by attempting to [[AxeCrazy attack him with axes]] only for [[TrueCompanions the bugs whom James has grown to consider family]] [[BigDamnHeroes to descend from the sky and]] help James deliver much overdue justice to Spiker and Sponge, who can only freak out at the sight of the bugs, screaming their heads off. The movie seems to be a much more satisfying way to see them go down.

* ''Film/KissKissBangBang'': A somewhat KickTheSonOfABitch example is found at the end, where a father in his deathbed is slapped around and insulted by Gay Perry for sexually molesting his daughter. Harry at the end justifies this by saying, "Don't worry, he was creepy."

** Zigzagged in the ''Film/IronMan'' films as Tony in the present never wastes an opportunity to rag on his father Howard for being such a neglectful, unloving dad and in the memory scene during ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', a teenage Tony directly criticises Howard for taking his mother Maria on a "little getaway" at the Pentagon all while bickering with his father, who isn’t impressed at his son’s attitude either. However, Tony secretly did genuinely love Howard and vice versa, with his father unable to open up to his son about his feelings and work. [[spoiler:This is seen in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' where a disguised Tony cannot help but be overjoyed to be able talk to Howard again through TimeTravel and even gives him parenting advice and a hug. Tony even says he regrets making his father out to be worse than actually he was]].

** In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', the titular Thor calls Odin out for endangering Asgardains by refusing to take the battle with the Dark Elves away from the palace after Frigga is killed. Odin doesn't take his son's defiance well although to his credit, he does mellow out by the time of ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', admitting that he has failed both of his sons.
** In ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'', the closest thing Peter Quill had to a father was Yondu Udonta, leader of the Ravagers, who kidnapped him as a child and constantly holds the fact that he ''didn't'' allow his crew to kill and eat Quill as a child over his head. Naturally, Quill eventually gets sick of it and call him out on it:

** Gamora throughout ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' calls out her adoptive father (er, kidnapper) Thanos for being an insane, callous intergalactic prick who believes in [[WellIntentionedExtremist sacrificing half of the universe's lives to save others in the name of peace]]. Of course, being Thanos, he just brushes aside Gamora’s objections by either trying to justify his actions by pointing out the good he’s done for her planet and others or worse, still emotionally manipulate Gamora into feeling guilty and ungrateful.

* The first film in ''Film/TheMightyDucks'' trilogy has Gordon Bombay finally realizing how disposable his old pee-wee hockey Coach Riley treated his players when he casually has the Ducks' best player Adam Banks taken out of the game via cross-check and injury just as Banks had put the Ducks on the board to make the championship game 3-1, when Banks had been on the Hawks earlier in the season due to a clerical error. Bombay had [[MyGreatestFailure spent twenty years beating himself up over the missed penalty shot]] that could have won both of them the 1973 Minnesota state championship, that could have satisfied young Gordon's own [[WellDoneSonGuy desire to please his replacement father figure]] after [[DisappearedDad his own had died]]...and there he was, continuing to practice his philosophy of [[SecondPlaceIsForLosers winning at any cost]].

* In ''Film/PacificRim'', [[BrokenAce Chuck Hansen]] calls out his father Hercules and says that [[HandsOffParenting he never raised Chuck to be anything,]] and that the only reason they're still together after all this time is because they're Drift-compatible, so they don't even need to talk to each other outside the Conn Pod. The look on Herc's face is heartbreaking.

* ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'': A subplot of the well-cast film. Leonardo [=diCaprio=]'s [[YoungGun young, confident gunslinger]] spends most of his time in a gunfighting tournament provoking his father (Gene Hackman) into a duel. Hackman asks [=diCaprio=] not to duel him, but when [=diCaprio=] refuses to back down, Hackman shoots him down immediately.

* In the final act of ''Film/WeddingSeason'', Ravi yells at his parents for not bothering to hide their disappointment in him for nnever going back to college and "fixing" his life, pleading with them to acknowledge that their son is right in front of him.

* ''When Did You Last See Your Father?'': The whole of this film is a flashback onto this guys life story which (?) leads up to a massive subversion where he should have called his father out but [[spoiler:forgives his father on his death bed.]]

* ''Film/IrreconcilableDifferences'' has Casey telling her parents at her emancipation trial about how that even if they hate each other, they should at least treat each other with respect. She also told them that they treated her like a pet that they pay attention to only once in a while.
* ''Film/WishYouWereHere1987'': Teenaged Lynda has a very contentious relationship with her widowed father, Hubert. Lynda is very rebellious but Hubert is also distant from his daughter. She calls him out in private and in public, the most notable scene being at a tea room in front of all the customers.

* ''Film/WishYouWereHere'': Teenaged Lynda has a very contentious relationship with her widowed father, Hubert. Lynda is very rebellious but Hubert is also distant from his daughter. She calls him out in private and in public, the most notable scene being at a tea room in front of all the customers.

--->'''Neil:''' I've got to tell you what I feel!\\

* '''Film/DeadPoetsSociety''': Defied. When Neil Perry tries to pull this off on his dad after Mr. Perry [[FantasyForbiddingFather stomps his foot down]] on Neil's desire to be an actor, Mr. Perry immediately yells him into submission. [[spoiler:This moment of weakness is Neil's [[DespairEventHorizon very last straw]] and makes him decide to [[DrivenToSuicide blow his brains out with Mr. Perry's revolver]] later that night.]]