Calling The Old Man Out / Film

People Calling the Old Man Out in film.

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Animation

• In Chicken Little, 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 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.
• Coco: Miguel calls out Imelda for not respecting his wish to pursue music in one of his darkest moments.
• For most of Encanto, Abuela Alma just treats Mirabel a bit coldly, but it's not too noticeable, since she's 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 Smilers. (Though unlike many examples of this trope, they make up by the end.)
  Mirabel: I will never be good enough for you, will I? No matter how hard I try...no matter how hard any of us try. Luisa will never be strong enough. Isabela won't be perfect enough. 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 breaking our home!
  Alma: Don't you EVER—!
  Mirabel: The miracle is dying because of you!
• Finding Nemo: Nemo has done this to his overprotective dad Marlin. Three little words: "I hate you."
• In 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—
  Quasimodo: No, you listen! All my life you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place! But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!!!
• In Incredibles 2, Violet reads her dad the riot act when she finds out that he asked Mr. Dicker to wipe Tony's memory, including of their date. She says she hates supers, renounces hero work, tries to destroy her suit, and marches off in a rage. Bob tries to make things right by staging an interaction between Violet and Tony at his part-time job but only makes Violet feel worse. The two finally reconcile when Bob, although exhausted from dealing with Jack-Jack, takes the time to apologize to Violet for all that he put her through.
• In Justice League: Gods and Monsters, due to some Adaptational Villainy, Bekka did this to her grandfather, Highfather, after being betrayed and killed the Apokoliptians, including Orion:
  "If I had to do it over, I would have warned them all, I would have shouted to the skies: 'Trust not the monster Highfather, he is mad with power!'"
• Kung Fu Panda: 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!
• In The Land Before Time 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.
  Cera's Father: Cera, I'm your father. I want what's best for you.
  Cera: No, you don't! You just don't want me to have any fun! (runs off in anger)
  Cera's Father: Cera, please! I'm just trying to... As a parent, I... Ohhh!
  • 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 whose overly strict and harsh behavior leads his own son to become the local bully.
    Cera's Father: If you always react with anger, that's all your son will know. And that's all he'll be able to express with others.
• The Lion King II: Simba's Pride:
  • Kiara tells her father Simba "You will never be Mufasa!" in reaction to his overprotective nature and want to be like his own father.
  • Kovu calls his adopted mother Zira out after she holds him responsible for the death of his brother Nuka.
    Kovu: I did nothing!
    Zira: Exactly! And in doing so, you betrayed your pride, betrayed Scar!
    Kovu: I want nothing more to do with him!
• Migration: Dax gives his father Mack a short one when Mack initially refuses to help Delroy because getting the key from the Chef will be dangerous: "Just because you're afraid of everything doesn't mean I have to be!"
• In Tangled, once Rapunzel is dragged back from Corona and realizes she's the lost princess, she calls Mother Gothel out on stealing her and claiming to protect her when she was using her all along. Gothel responds by revealing just how evil she can really be.
  Gothel: You want me to be the bad guy? Fine — now I'm the bad guy...
  • Rapunzel 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 Just a Kid.
• The Sword in the Stone: When Sir Ector calls Merlin a devil (for using his magic to clean up the dishes and the kitchen), Arthur steps up to his defense. In response, Sir Ector heaps him more cleaning duties as punishment. Arthur starts crying, but still gets the courage to call Sir Ector on how he's always treating him that way while he can't do anything to defend himself, which visibly shakes him, though it doesn't stick and he decides to revoke Arthur's position as Kay's squire.
• Turning Red: 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 going to 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 Wishology, Timmy Turner directs this, combined with What the Hell, Hero?, 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.

Live-Action

• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery — Dr. Evil, cryogenically frozen for 30 years, meets his artificially-conceived son Scott.
  Scott: I haven't seen you my whole life — and now you come back and just expect a relationship?! ...I hate you!
  Dr. Evil: ...can I have a hug?
• Lilly calls out her abusive dad (who's also implied to have been pimping her since she was 14) near the start of Baby Face:
  Lilly: Yeah, I'm a tramp, and who's to blame? My father! Ever since I was 14, what's it been? Nothing but men! Dirty, rotten men! And you're lower than any of them!
• Beyond the Lights:
  • Early in the film, Kaz confronts Macy, making it clear that, by refusing to get her suicidally depressed daughter help, she's not doing her job as a parent. Talk about gutsy!
  • After bottling up her emotions for years and even attempting suicide rather than actually addressing it, Noni finally calls her mother out on being a micromanaging, ambitious Stage Mom. She isn't wrong and her mother slaps her in frustration.
• Black Snake Moan: 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.
• Black Zoo: When Michael Conrad attempts to kill Edna, his son Carl finally snaps and comes to his stepmother's defence, standing to up his father for the first time. As Carl is The Speechless, this becomes a physical confrontation that quickly turns into a full-on Battle in the Rain.
• The titular character in Boy (2010) does this finally to his father who left him and his little brother to live with their granny and only returns when he tries to find robbed money he buried in the area.
  Boy: I don't remember you! You weren't there! You weren't there when he was born! You weren't there when she died! Where were you?
• Braindead: In Peter Jackson's film, Lionel finally stands up to his manipulative, possessive mother. Unfortunately, he's waited until she's turned into a gigantic monstrosity, but he's still properly equipped to take her down the old-fashioned way.
• The Celebration (Festen): This Danish film centres on eldest son Christian very publicly calling his sexually abusive father out at the latter's 60th birthday party. His mother gets her fair share of his contempt as well.
• Cherrybomb (2009): 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 The Children's Hour. She was too busy pursuing her acting career to testify in Martha 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.
  Martha: There's an 8:00 train. Get on it.
  Mrs. Mortar: Martha...
  Martha: All my grown life I've been something for you to pick dry. Now get out and don't come back.
  Mrs. Mortar: How can you talk to me like that?
  Martha: Because I hate you. I've always hated you.
  Mrs. Mortar: God will punish you for that.
  Martha: He's doing alright.
• Citizen Kane:
  • Sees one delivered to Kane's adoptive guardian, Mr. Thatcher:
    Kane: You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.
    Thatcher: Don't you think you are?
    Kane: I think I did pretty well, under the circumstances.
    Thatcher: What would you like to have been?
    Kane: Everything you hate.
  • This is displacement. Kane's really angry at his mother, for sending Kane away when he was young and putting him into Thatcher's hands. Implicitly, Thatcher is a decent (if very conservative) middle-aged banker who did his best while (ahem) raising Kane.
• City Slickers: Mitch (Billy Crystal) asks his buddies Ed(Bruno Kirby) and Phil(Daniel Stern) to describe "the best day and the worst day in your life". Ed recalled when stood up to his father, a serial adulterer:
  Ed Furillo: I'm 14 and my mother and father are fighting again... y'know, because she caught him again. Caught him... This time the girl drove by the house to pick him up. And I finally realized, he wasn't just cheating on my mother, he was cheating us. So I told him, I said, "You're bad to us. We don't love you. I'll take care of my mother and my sister. We don't need you anymore." And he made like he was gonna hit me, but I didn't budge. And he turned around and he left. He never bothered us again. Well, I took care of my mother and my sister from that day on. That's my best day.
  Phil Berquist: What was your worst day?
  Ed Furillo: Same day.
• 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 up for himself.
• Dead Poets Society: Defied. When Neil Perry tries to pull this off on his dad after Mr. Perry stomps his foot down on Neil's desire to be an actor, Mr. Perry immediately yells him into submission. This moment of weakness is Neil's very last straw and makes him decide to blow his brains out with Mr. Perry's revolver later that night.
  Neil: I've got to tell you what I feel!
  Mrs. Perry: We've been so worried about you!
  Mr. Perry: What? What? Tell me what you feel! What is it? Is it more of this, this acting business? Because you can forget that! What?
  Neil: Nothing.
  Mr. Perry: Nothing? Well, then, let's go to bed.
• Dear Zindagi: 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.
• Dirty Dancing: A heartbreaking example when Baby does this to her father:
  Baby: I told you I was telling the truth, Daddy. I'm sorry I lied to you...but you lied too. You told me everyone was alike and deserved a fair break, but you meant everyone who was like you. You told me you wanted me to change the world and make it better, but you meant by becoming a lawyer or economist and marrying someone from Harvard. I'm not proud of myself, but I'm in this family too, and you can't keep giving me the silent treatment. There are a lot of things about me that aren't what you thought, but if you love me, you have to love all the things about me (starts to cry), and I love you, and I'm sorry I let you down. I'm so sorry, Daddy, but you let me down too.
• Doctor Sleep has an excellent example of this as Daniel Torrance gets to do a post-mortem version to the ghost of his father Jack Torrance (in the form “Lloyd” the bartender). Sitting at the bar, Dan 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 reminded of Jack, forcing Dan to mercifully use his 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 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.
• Finding Neverland: Emma spends most of the movie trying to control the lives of her daughter and school-aged grandsons, attempting to keep James Barrie out of their lives. Near the end of the movie, George, the eldest brother, finally takes a stand against her meddling.
• The General's Daughter:
  • This is the entire reason for Campbell's undermining of her father's position by seducing most of his staff, as revenge for the cover-up of her rape at Westpoint.
  • Subverted Trope by Brenner in an offhand comment when questioned if he likes his own father:
    My father was a drunk, a gambler, and a womanizer. I worshiped him.
• Girlfight: Diana angrily says her father drove her mother to suicide with his abuse in the second half of the film. He hits her over this, but (having trained as a boxer) she quickly beats him up.
• Gladiator: After years of neglect and paternal disapproval, Commodus delivers a truly heart-wrenching one to his father, Marcus Aurelius.
• In Greedy, Danny ends up calling out his father's anti-materialistic attitudes, taking the side of the rich Uncle Joe over his father's pompous self-righteousness. It was actually a dishonestly Invoked Trope: Danny hired an actor to pose as his "father", with the whole confrontation set up so that Danny could choose Joe over his father.
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?: John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) delivers a scathing speech to his father in one of the only dramatic scenes in this comedy:
  "You listen to me. You say you don't want to tell me how to live my life. So what do you think you've been doing? You tell me what rights I've got or haven't got, and what I owe to you for what you've done for me. Let me tell you something: I owe you nothing!"
• The Hairy Bird: Abby, to Page Singer. After Page announces that the school is going coed, the girls rebel, but Page wants Abby to take charge of them, at which point Abby tells her off.
• The Heiress: Towards the end, Catherine Sloper calls her father out on his lifelong emotional abuse of her — treating her as a socially incompetent waste of space, driving away her Gold Digger fiancé (only to protect his money, not her) and telling her that the only thing interesting about her is her $10,000 a year inheritance. She even calls him on his bluff to disinherit her:
  Catherine: You have cheated me! You thought that any handsome, clever man would be as bored with me as you are were. It was not love that made you protect me—it was contempt!
  Dr. Sloper: You have found a tongue at last, Catherine. It is only to say such terrible things to me.
  Catherine: Yes. This is a field where you will not compare me to my mother.
  Dr. Sloper: Promise me you are done with him!
  Catherine: I won't promise.
  Dr. Sloper: Then, I must alter my will.
  Catherine: You should... you should do it immediately!
  Dr. Sloper: I don't want to do it. I don't want to disinherit my only child.
  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.
  Dr. Sloper: I don't know what you would do, Catherine.
  Catherine: That's right, father. You'll never know, will you?
• In Hot Fuzz, when the rest of the Sanford Police come in and try to arrest Nicholas, Danny refuses to obey his father's orders, even when he threatens to have them both arrested.
  Frank Butterman: This is ridiculous!
  Danny: No it's not, Dad. It's all very un-ridiculous, and it's only now that I'm starting to realize how un-ridiculous it all is!
  Frank Butterman: SILENCE, DANNY! Think of your mother!
  Danny: Mum is dead, Dad. And for the first time in my life, you know, I'm glad. If she could see what you've become, I think she'd probably kill herself all over again!
• In Hot Tub Time Machine, after Jacob sees Lou is having sex with Kelly, he becomes completely flabbergasted that this makes Lou his father, which Jacob sees as a sort of Moral Event Horizon.
  Jacob: I always knew there was a reason I hated you!
• In I'm Not Rappaport, Nat Moyers' daughter, Clara, gives this to him hard when calling him out for wandering around the park and the neighborhood, stirring up trouble, getting hurt, and her not being able to get in contact with him. He tears into her for abandoning the cause, no longer fighting for the unions and the common people, and she tells him that everyone else already has, that even the Russians gave up, that he's the only one who's left. She tells him she's worried she's going to find him seriously hurt or even dead and lays out three choices for him: living with her in Great Neck, moving into the Maple Hills Senior Residence, or leaving himself available once a week and every afternoon visiting the Big Apple Senior Center and participating in the activities there. He rejects them all and she tells him that she's prepared to take legal action if needed.
• James and the Giant Peach: 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, has 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 evil aunts "I said, 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, YOU are, and I'm never going back with you! Not me, and not the peach!" They retaliate by attempting to attack him with axes only for the bugs whom James has grown to consider family 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.
• Jenny's Wedding: Jenny delivers a memorable one to her father over his inability to accept her sexual orientation.
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: A somewhat Pay Evil unto Evil 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."
• Lifetime Movie of the Week: While not always featured, this trope is nonetheless still a given in any movie of this kind (although many non-Lifetime TV movies have done this as well).
• Little Odessa: Joshua does this several times to his father, with escalating hostility and violence. The reasons are numerous: his father is a strict, belt-wielding figure, harsh on his younger son and harsher on the elder (for good reasons, though). Moreover, he cheats on his wife. However, Joshua is definitely not the victimized party: he was banished from home for being a hitman and not due to some insignificant offense.
• Locke: the only dialogue in the film not directed at someone over the phone is the title character imagining that his late, deadbeat father is sitting in the back seat of his car. On two occasions, Locke directs tirades at his imagined father, saying he's not going to make the same mistakes that his father did.
• In The Man from Laramie, both Dave and Vic have scenes of them chewing out Alec for his respective treatment of them. Not that he cares much...
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Zigzagged in the Iron Man 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 Captain America: Civil War, 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. This is seen in Avengers: Endgame where a disguised Tony cannot help but be overjoyed to be able to talk to Howard again through Time Travel 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 Thor, after Loki finds out from Odin about his true heritage as a Frost Giant and Laufey's son, revealing that he took the premature Loki as a possible means of creating peace between Asgard and Jotunheim. Loki, upset and outraged by this, tearfully then harshly chews out Odin for keeping the truth from him and favoring Thor over him. Granted, he does regret saying it after the stress and grief make Odin go into the Odinsleep.
    Loki: [on the verge of tears] So I am no more than another stolen relic, locked up here till you have use for me?
    Odin: Why do you twist my words?
    Loki: You could have told me what I was from the beginning! Why didn't you?
    Odin: You're my son. I only wanted to protect you from the truth.
    Loki: Why? [stutters] Because I am the monster parents tell their children about at night?
    [Odin begins to go weak and half-conscious]
    Loki: [his sadness turns to anger] You know it all makes sense now! Why you favored Thor all. These. Years! Because no matter how much you claim TO LOVE ME! You could never have a Frost Giant sitting on the Throne of Asgard!
  • In Thor: The Dark World, the titular Thor calls Odin out for endangering Asgardians 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 Thor: Ragnarok, admitting that he has failed both of his sons.
  • In Guardians of the Galaxy, 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 calls him out on it:
    Peter Quill: Twenty years you've been throwing that in my face, like it's some great thing not eating me! Normal people never even think about eating someone else, much less make it something they have to be grateful for! You abducted me, man, stole me from my home and from my family!
  • Black Panther: On his second time in the spiritual realm, T'Challa wastes no time condemning T'Chaka to his face about how he killed N'Jobu (T'Chaka's brother and T'Challa's uncle) and left N'Jobu's son (and hence T'Chaka's nephew and T'Challa's cousin) N'Jadaka/Erik "Killmonger" Stevens to fend for himself in Oakland.
  • Gamora throughout Avengers: Infinity War calls out her adoptive father (er, kidnapper) Thanos for being an insane, callous intergalactic prick who believes in 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 manipulating Gamora into feeling guilty and ungrateful.
    • Also in Avengers: Infinity War, during the battle of Titan, Nebula wastes no time telling her adoptive father how much he sucks, but being The Un-Favourite to him, Thanos just spites Nebula back and tries to kill her.
• Meet the Parents (Meet The Fockers): The entire family calls out Robert De Niro's character for using truth serum on his future son-in-law.
• The first film in The Mighty Ducks 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 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 desire to please his replacement father figure after his own had died...and there he was, continuing to practice his philosophy of winning at any cost.
  Riley: You got something to say to me, Bombay?
  Bombay: To think I wasted all those years, worrying about what you thought. You're going down, Riley. [walks back to the Ducks bench and proceeds to keep his promise with the Ducks winning 5-4]
• Moulin Rouge!: Satine to Harold Zidler, a man who has been like a father to her, when he tries to prevent her from running away with Christian. Naturally, her outburst prompts him to make The Reveal (known to the audience already) that she is dying of tuberculosis.
• Mysterious Skin: The normally mild-mannered Brian drunkenly confronts his father on his 19th birthday for his absense and emotional neglect leaving him open to being sexually abused by his pedophile Little League coach as a child, and then not noticing anything was wrong, despite his obvious emotional and physical problems.
  Brian: I was bleeding! I kept passing out! I wet my FUCKING bed! AND YOU NEVER ASKED WHY!
• Notes on a Scandal: Sheba receives this from her disgusted daughter "You slept with a child! Your boyfriend is younger than mine!"
• Nothing in Common is about David, an advertising executive, whose parents, Max and Lorraine, have gotten divorced, and David gets angry when he finds out Max cheated on Lorraine (he claimed she was "frigid"). At the end of that scene:
  David: Tomorrow, I'm doing a commercial about a family that loves each other, cares for each other. I'm faking it.
• In October Sky, Homer Hickam's father, John, keeps pressuring him to work in their town's coal mine instead of pursuing his dream of building rockets. After Homer wins the science fair and qualifies for the Nationals in Indianapolis, things come to a head when the miners go on strike and one attempts to shoot John; after John dismisses Homer's fears and derisively tells him to go find his suitcase, Homer snaps and berates John for being the only person who doesn't understand the coal mine is done for, and vowing that if he wins in Indianapolis and goes to college, he's never coming back.
• In Pacific Rim, Chuck Hansen calls out his father Hercules and says that he never raised Chuck to be anything, and that the only reason they're still together after all this time is that 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.
  Chuck: After Mum died, I spent more time with these machines than I ever did with you. Now, the only reason you and I speak, old man, is because we're Drift-compatible.
• The Quick and the Dead: A subplot of the well-cast film. Leonardo DiCaprio's 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.
• Rocky: When Mickey, who's the closest thing Rocky has to a father figure, shows up at his apartment offering to become his manager, Rocky rejects him, saying that he needed Mick's help before and he didn't care, and going on a rant about what he's had to endure as an underdog with no future and no one to look out for him. Mickey sadly leaves, but Rocky changes up his mind after getting his feelings out of his chest, accepting Mick's offer and reconciling with him.
• Revolution (1985): Ned, seeing Tom going along with the British without a fight, accuses him of being a coward and runs off to join a gang of youths named Mohawks.
• Scanners: Dr. Ruth doesn't get this treatment until after he's dead. Once Cameron learns that Dr. Ruth was his father who had left him as a street-wandering pariah his whole life, he is horrified, and does nothing to defend Ruth from the insults of Darryl Revok ("That was Daddy."). And when the inevitable "Not So Different" Remark moment comes up, it's not Big Bad Revok comparing himself to Cameron; it's Cameron comparing Revok to Ruth. And Revok is outraged.
• Sling Blade: Karl comes close to this with his estranged father, Frank, for making Karl dispose of his miscarried little brother, but Frank has progressed too far into senility/dementia to care about anything anymore, and Karl realizes this.
• In Sodom and Gomorrah, Hebrew leader Lot's daughters, Shuah and Maleb, only reluctantly join him as he leads the Hebrews out of the title cities ahead of their destruction, as they are still angry at him for killing Astaroth, the man they both loved. Shuah in particular says she will not leave his side until he feels the same grief and pain she felt on losing Astaroth. She gets her wish shortly after when Lot's wife, Ildith, is Taken for Granite after disobeying his instructions not to look back at Sodom's destruction.
• Star Trek Into Darkness: When Admiral Marcus is about to destroy the defenseless Enterprise — after kidnapping Carol with the Transporter — Carol slaps his face, shouting, "I'm ashamed to be your daughter!" She still screams when Khan kills him.
• Torch Song Trilogy: After Arnold's mother makes the significant tactical error of belittling his relationship with Alan while Arnold is literally in the middle of praying over Alan's grave, Arnold finally lets loose with one of the rawest denunciations of parental homophobia ever committed to film:
  Ma: What loss did you have? You fooled around with some boy. Where do you compare that with a marriage of forty years? Come on. I'm not one of your pals.
  Arnold: I lost someone I loved.
  Ma: So you felt bad. Maybe you cried. Forty years I lived with this man. He got sick, I took him to the hospital. I gave them a man. They gave me a place to visit on holy days. How could you know how I felt? It took two months before I slept in our bed. It took a year before I could say "I" instead of "we." How dare you?!
  Arnold: You're right. How dare I? I couldn't know how it feels to put someone's things in plastic bags and watch garbage men take them away. Or how it feels when you forget and set his place at the table. The food that rots because you forgot how to shop for one. You had it easy! You had your friends and relatives! I had me. My friends said "At least you had a lover." You lost your husband in a clean hospital. I lost mine on the street! They killed him in the street! Twenty years old, laying dead, killed by kids with baseball bats! That's right, Ma, killed by children! Children taught by people like you that queers don't matter! Queers don't love! And those that do deserve what they get!!
• In Le Visiteur du Futur Alice calls out her father, who is a politician, about allowing the building of a nuclear power plant. She also calls him out for drinking too much.
• The Waterboy: In this Adam Sandler comedy, Bobby Boucher finally stands up to his overprotective Mama:
  Mama Boucher: (furiously) You gonna lose all your fancy foosballs games! And your gonna fail your big exam! Because foosball and school are-
  Bobby: (interrupting, bitterly) The devil?
  (Mama is taken aback)
  Bobby: Everything's the devil to you, Mama! Well, I like school! And I like football! And I'm gonna keep doin' them both because they make me feel good!
  (Bobby grabs his things and walks to the door)
  Bobby: And by the way, Mama. Alligators are ornery 'cause of their "Medulla Oblongata"!
  (Bobby slams the door behind him, but he opens it a few seconds later)
  Bobby: (almost in tears) And I like Vicki, and she likes me! And she showed me her boobies, and I like them too!
  (Bobby slams the door for the last time)
• In the final act of Wedding Season, Ravi yells at his parents for not bothering to hide their disappointment in him for never going back to college and "fixing" his life, pleading with them to acknowledge that their son is right in front of him.
• Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins: Roscoe (Martin Lawrence) finally deals one out to his father (James Earl Jones) towards the end, during a meltdown at the family obstacle course, for mistreating him for so much of his life.
• When Did You Last See Your Father?: The whole of this film is a flashback onto this guy's life story which (?) leads up to a massive subversion where he should have called his father out but forgives his father on his death bed.
• Wing Commander: Blair calls Angel, his squadron^*"wing" in the film dialog, a script editing error that was fixed in the Novelization commander, on her policy that pilots who died "never existed", as being unfaithful to those who have died in service.
• Why Be Good? has a great sequence where Pert calls out her dad for being so bossy about her outfits—she's a hardworking girl and deserves to wear and do what she likes.
• Irreconcilable Differences has Casey telling her parents at her emancipation trial about how 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.
• Wish You Were Here (1987): 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.
  [Lynda is making a scene in the tea room]
  Hubert: [speaking to crowd] She's a bad lot, and that's the truth. Nothing but trouble, that's the way it's always been.
  Lynda: [speaking over him] That's my father speaking—
  Hubert: Ever since she could speak, she's uttered nothing but filth. From the day she uttered her first word, her tongue has caused nothing but trouble.
  Lynda: This is my father—
  Hubert: Sometimes I doubt it.
  Lynda: —an insult to my dead mother.

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