Listen, no one’s convincing me that Field of Dreams isn’t the best movie about fatherhood ever made. But Esquire’s Josh Rosenberg did put together a damn good list of films—the Kevin Costner classic is one of them, of course—to watch with your pops (or kids!) during the holiday this weekend. Check it out below. —Brady Langmann, senior entertainment editor
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If you press play on Field of Dreams, they will come.
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Hollywood doesn’t make a lot of movies for dads anymore. The box office is ruled by Gen Z indie horror flicks and Minions sequels, with nary a feel-good baseball story in sight. You’re telling me Glen Powell doesn’t want to remake The Natural? Where’s this year’s World War II picture? What about another classic Will Ferrell comedy?
If it’s too tough to drag dad to the theaters nowadays, allow me to present a compromise: watch a film that reminds dad of when Tinseltown made movies solely for fathers in mind. We’re talking slapstick laugh-fests like Airplane! and Stripes, sports all-timers like Field of Dreams, and generational adventure films like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
So, if you’re looking to connect with dad over a film this weekend, check out our favorite movies to watch on Father’s Day.
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What most people think of when they think of Route 66 is old cars and kitsch. Perhaps that’s always how the past looks in the middle distance, when it’s too old to seem recent but too young to seem like capital-H History. But it’s uncharitable to America’s most well-known highway, whose pavement saved the lives of countless families, be they travelers or those small-town denizens whose fortunes were tied inextricably to the road, who ran service stations, diners, and shops. Those old cars were new once, and the kitsch, the stuff of real American lives.
Nearly every one of us has at some point experienced a road trip as a kind of freedom. The freedom Route 66 granted was capital-H Historic.
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Even if you only pay the running world the smallest amount of attention, you’ve likely heard about a fancy new footwear trend called “super-shoes” that have demolished previous world records. I’ll save you the techy jargon: the shoes have an extra-bouncy foam that’s easier on the legs and a carbon-fiber plate embedded under the forefoot, acting like a spring. The majority of super-shoes are made for road-running, but the excursion I was planning would be covering terrain of many kinds, including rocky trails and sandy beaches. I needed something beefier, more rugged, but with the same enhanced support and comfort.
Enter: the trail super-shoe. Specifically, the On CloudUltra Pro. With these bad boys on my feet, I’m feeling a little more confident about race day.
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