For Father's Day: Top Ten "Daddy Issues" Movies

Catherine Downes June 15, 2012 3:21PM

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9. The Royal Tenenbaums Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) is a lousy father figure who leaves his once-prodigy children with all kinds of emotional scars.

8. Factory Girl Factory Girl portrays the rise and fall of '60s "it" girl Edie Sedgwick, and highlights the socialites deeply rooted daddy issues.

7. The Savages A brother and sister take care of their ailing dad.

6. The Ballad of Jack and Rose A father and his daughter live together on an isolated island, and at one point in the movie share a super skin-crawly father-daughter kiss.

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Catherine Downes

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