Dad was released in the year 1989。Dad is also called as Tata, uma Lição de Vida, Isä, Mon père。

A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. In the process, he teaches his father to be more independent which causes problems with the man's wife (Olympia Dukakis). Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.

Dad actors and actresses include Charles Stransky, Ethan Hawke, Gregory Itzin, Jimmy Higa, Kevin Spacey, Olympia Dukakis, Richard McGonagle, Sprague Grayden, Ted Danson。