AND the winners are:The 10 worst dads in movie history
In honor of Father's Day, we count down the nastiest patriarchs ever to hit the big screen
By Matt Zoller Seitz
Happy Father's Day, dear old Dad, you strong, wise, kindhearted man, you beacon of integrity, you ... Oh, wait, that was last year's slide show.
This year we're serving up a hall of fame of truly terrible movie fathers. We're got drunks. We've got pedophiles. We've got a thieving rapist gangster redneck, a homicidal preacher, an intergalactic warlord and a lawyer who smells faintly of sulfur. Add your own rotten patriarchs in the Letters section.
And to all you fathers out there: Go ahead and raise a toast to yourself. Whatever your failings, you're almost surely a better dad than anyone in this sorry bunch.
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Ranking----Role----Title----Released----Actor
10) Dwight Hansen, "This Boy's Life" (1993) Played by: Robert De Niro
09) Ed Wilson, "Natural Born Killers" (1994) Played by: Rodney Dangerfield
08) Bill Maplewood, "Happiness" (1998) Played by: Dylan Baker
07) Brad Whitewood Sr., "At Close Range" (1986) Played by: Christopher Walken
06) Jack Torrance, "The Shining" (1980) Played by: Jack Nicholson
05) The Rev. Harry Powell, aka Preacher, "Night of the Hunter" (1955) Played by: Robert Mitchum
04) Grandpa, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974) Played by: John Dugan
03) Noah Cross, "Chinatown" (1974) Played by: John Huston
02) Darth Vader, aka Anakin Skywalker, the "Star Wars" saga, 1977-2005 Played at different stages by: Hayden Christensen, David Prowse and James Earl Jones, and Sebastian Shaw
01) John Milton, "The Devil's Advocate" (1997) Played by: Al Pacino
There wasn't any "honourable Mentioned"!
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