History Film / MrsDoubtfire

** --> '''Natalie:''' We're his damn kids, too! \\
'''Miranda:''' [[WhatTheHellHero Is there anything else you'd like to teach our five-year-old, Daniel]]]?

** Mrs. Doubtfire back this up by saying she can tell by the way Lydia talked about her dad.

* TheUnfairSex: While Daniel wants to work through their marital troubles, suggesting a vacation and ''marriage counseling'', and is shown to be willing to change and mature in order to please Maranda, by contrast she brushes his suggestions to help their marriage aside and declares it over. Then, in what is likely two months or less in the film's stated timeframe, she's already dating again while Daniel has to struggle and scrap at a low-end job and a small apartment and gets to spend far less time with their children than she does. However, all the characters and to some extent the story itself blame Daniel for the marriage's failure and a word is never said to Maranda.

** There is a moment where Daniel (as Mrs. Doubtfire) asks Miranda ''why'' she never explained to her husband why she was unhappy when she tells "Mrs. Doubtfire" about their troubles, possibly setting up a WhatTheHellHero speech, only for Miranda to brush it off saying that Daniel would never bother to take such things seriously.

''Mrs. Doubtfire'' is a 1993 family movie wherein RobinWilliams, after separating from his wife, [[WholesomeCrossdresser crossdresses]] as an elderly British woman in order to see his kids again. It co-stars Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan and was directed by ChrisColumbus.

* YouFailFilmSchoolForever: The opening scene features Daniel recording for a cartoon. For the most part in the West voice recording for animation is done before followed by the actual animating (Japan however animates then records). ChrisColumbus DID acknowledge this in his commentary and figured it could be taken as Daniel dubbing a foreign cartoon.

* RealityEnsues: When Daniel is finally caught and forced to come before the judge, the judge tells him that if you want to prove yourself a competent, capable parent figure, dressing up like an elderly English nanny and posing as their housekeeper isn't going to help. Daniel ''did'' meet the judges demands, but his behavior as Mrs Doubtfire did a lot more damage to his case.

* TheUnfairSex: A mild but still noticeable example. While Daniel seems perfectly willing to work on their marriage (suggesting a trip and, in a much more mature and serious move, ''marriage counseling'' to try and work out their problems) and seems quite willing to change (and, as we see in the movie, ''boy'' can he change), Miranda simply brushes all that aside, not even willing to try it, and declares that it's over. This is, perhaps not coincidentally, just after she's seen mooning over the prospect of seeing Stuart again. All the characters and to some extent the story itself still seem to saddle Daniel with at least 95% of the blame for the failed marriage.
** There is a moment where Daniel (as Mrs. Doubtfire) asks Miranda ''why'' she never explained to her husband why she was unhappy (after having just confessed her reasons to his alter-ego) possibly setting up a WhatTheHellHero speech only for Miranda to brush it off saying that Daniel would never bother to take such things seriously.

* ChekhovsSkill: At "her" interview, Mrs. Doubtfire's resume states she she knows first aid, including the Heimlich Maneuver. This apparently isn't a lie (like the rest of the qualifications clearly are), as Daniel ends up needing to administer the Maneuver to Stuart later on.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Daniel Hillard -- loving father who desperately wants to raise his kids, or [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3bgipCebuI creepily obsessed stalker]]?
** Even invoked a bit in-movie, both by Daniel himself ("What am I doing here? This is beyond obsession.") and by the judge, once the gig is up, as the reason for ordering supervision during Daniel's time with the kids.
*** In some ways this, also applies to Miranda. Is she a mature woman who has put up with Daniel's antics over the years and has finally reached her breaking point, or is she a cold detached woman more interested in her career than her family. Her apparent mooning over her old flame prior to telling Daniel it's over doesn't help her cause any.
* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Daniel and Miranda remain divorced, but he is able to get unsupervised visitation rights. This was substituted for the original ending where they do get back together, which was opposed by Chris Columbus, Robin Williams, and Sally Field (all divorcees) who thought would give false hope to children of divorced couples.]]

** [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "Oh, it was a run-by fruiting!"]]
* ExecutiveMeddling: The original script had Daniel and Miranda getting remarried, but Williams, Sally Field, and Columbus (all divorcees) felt that they didn't want to give children of divorced parents an unrealistic ending.
* FakeBrit: Daniel when in his Mrs. Doubtfire status.
** Which is {{Lampshaded}} by real Brit Pierce Brosnan when he first meets Mrs. Doubtfire. He immediately spots that "her" accent is a bit muddled. Mrs. Doubtfire {{Handwave}}s this by claiming to have moved around a lot.
** PierceBrosnan himself might be a slight example--he moved to London when he was ten, but he's Irish.

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Composer]]: [[LordOfTheRings Howard Shore]].
* HeyItsThatGuy: Series/RemingtonSteele as Miranda's new beau. For people born in the late 1980s, see RetroactiveRecognition in the YMMV page above.
** A super-obscure one: One of the men in the sound booth during the opening scene is voice actor Terry [=McGovern=], who is best known as [[DuckTales Launchpad [=McQuack=]]], fake commentator Peter O'Keefe for Sega's ''NFL[=2K=]'' franchise, and the voice for the befuddled Stormtrooper during the iconic "These are not the droids you looking for" scene in ''ANewHope''.

* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision S Strike]]: When Daniel's mask falls out of the window, lands in the road, and then gets run over by a garbage truck.

* ThrowItIn: Attempted within the movie, and it doesn't go well.

* YouFailFilmSchoolForever / ArtisticLicense: The opening scene features Daniel recording for a cartoon. For the most part in the West voice recording for animation is done before followed by the actual animating (Japan however animates then records). ChrisColumbus DID acknowledge this in his commentary and figured it could be taken as Daniel dubbing a foreign cartoon.
** Which doesn't make sense either as the lip-synch in the cartoon (produced by ChuckJones) is clearly English. Daniel is more than likely just doing post-production looping, either to just do touch ups on certain lines, or maybe [[TheOtherMarty Daniel replaced another actor,]] and is recording over the previous actor's work. Which makes sense from his conversation with the producer who complains that this session is already costing the studio and they're on a deadline.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As mentioned in ExecutiveMeddling above, original plans had [[spoiler: Daniel and Miranda remarrying]]. In addition the original script had Stu being a more snide character, ready to ship the children off to boarding school.

[[spoiler: * BittersweetEnding: Daniel and Miranda remain divorced, but he is able to get unsupervised visitation rights. This was substituted for the original ending where they do get back together, which was opposed by Chris Columbus, Robin Williams, and Sally Field (all divorcees) who thought would give false hope to children of divorced couples.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As mentioned in ExecutiveMeddling above, original plans had Daniel and Miranda remarrying. In addition the original script had Stu being a more snide character, ready to ship the children off to boarding school.

* WildTeenParty: Subverted, Somehow inviting all the toddlers in the neighborhood, renting a petting zoo and a pony for your son doesn't sound very great for a 12 year old boy. Especially to risk your marriage over.

* BittersweetEnding: Daniel and Miranda remain divorced, but he is able to get unsupervised visitation rights. This was substituted for the original ending where they do get back together, which was opposed by Chris Columbus, Robin Williams, and Sally Field (all divorcees) who thought would give false hope to children of divorced couples.

** The crew had Williams test it out by going into a[[spoiler:n adult book]]store in full Doubtfire gear and manner to see if anyone could spot that it was a disguise. Everyone took him as a sweet, if quite tall, old lady.

* TakingTheKids

* HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation: The caseworker for the divorce makes a surprise visit to Daniel's apartment to check up on him, but comes while he's still in disguise. Daniel covers for it by claiming that she's his sister. The caseworker calls his bluff and insists on coming upstairs. Daniel gets around this by going into a room to "get" him; while in the room, where the caseworker can't see him, he loudly holds both sides of the conversation as himself and Mrs. Doubtfire, all while changing into her disguise (and then has to do it again when she takes up Daniel's offer of tea from his English "sister")

* HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation: The caseworker for the divorce makes a surprise visit to Daniel's apartment to check up on him. She notices some of Mrs. Doubtfire's things laying around, so Daniel covers for it by claiming that she's his roommate. The caseworker calls his bluff and asks to meet this "roommate". Daniel gets around this by going into a room to "get" her; while in the room, where the caseworker can't see him, he loudly holds both sides of the conversation as himself and Mrs. Doubtfire, all while changing into her disguise.

* DivorceIsTemporary: Defied - the executives wanted a happy ending, but the filmmakers felt it would be a disservice / give false hope to kids with divorced parents in the audience.

* {{False Soulmate}}s: Daniel and Miranda divorced and never got back together.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The original script had Daniel & Miranda getting remarried, but Williams, Sally Field, and Columbus (all divorcees) felt that they didn't want to give children of divorced parents an unrealistic ending.
* FakeBrit: Daniel when in his Mrs Doubtfire status.

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Composer]]: [[LordOfTheRings Howard Shore]]

*** In some ways this, also applies to Miranda. Is she a mature woman who has put up with Daniel's antics over the years and has finally reached her breaking point, or is she a cold detatched woman more interested in her career than her family. Her apparent mooning over her old flame prior to telling Daniel it's over doesn't help her cause any.