The Courtship of Eddie's Father
by Vincente Minnelli
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Actor: Dina Merrill, Glenn Ford, Ron Howard, Shirley Jones, Stella StevensDirector: Vincente Minnelli
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Milton R. Krasner
Editor: Adrienne Fazan
Producer: Joe Pasternak
Writer: John Gay
Writer: Mark Toby
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Movie Reviews of The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Movie Review: Opie Taylor
Summary: 5 Stars
I think this movie was made before Ron Howard played the role of "Opie Taylor" on the Andy Griffith Show, regardless, he is ADORABLE in this movie. He plays the role very well as a little boy growing up without a mother as he tries to fix his father up with dates. It like an earlier version of Sleepless in Seattle. It's a good wholesome "family" movie to watch.
Summary of The Courtship of Eddie's Father
The film that started the classic TV series. Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried - to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating. Sweet family comedy.Decades may pass, but The Courtship of Eddie's Father never loses any of its abundant charm. Long before he became an Oscar?-winning director, 8-year-old "Ronny" Howard (then appearing on TV's The Andy Griffith Show) costarred with Glenn Ford in this heartwarming family classic, later adapted into a TV series (1969-72) starring Bill Bixby and Brandon Cruz. While the later show adopted a hip, late-'60s sensibility, this 1963 production is more straight-laced and, for its time, remarkably frank--and disarmingly funny--about the many questions that precocious son Eddie (Howard) has for his widower father (Ford) as they recover from the death of wife and mother. A perfect director for this delicate material (wonderfully adapted from Mark Toby's novel), Vincente Minnelli hits all the right notes of sadness, hope, and parental concern; Ford's unspoken love for a helpful neighbor (Shirley Jones) may be a foregone conclusion, but romantic subplots (and Eddie's diligent matchmaking) add plenty of domestic drama. Sweet but never saccharine, this timeless Courtship is guaranteed to make you smile. --Jeff Shannon
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