BetterDads Movie Series

Two series.
The same mirror, different angles.

Film and TV — mainstream only. If a bloke at a barbecue wouldn't know it, we skip it. Two ways to look in: characters who show what it looks like to get it right, and characters whose worst patterns we recognise in ourselves.

Series B · The warning

We've all been him.

Patterns to catch. Five characters most men have, in smaller ways, lived through.

Breaking Bad poster
Breaking Bad
Walter White
The lie you tell yourself. Ego disguised as providing.
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American Beauty poster
American Beauty
Lester Burnham
Midlife tantrum disguised as awakening.
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Whiplash poster
Whiplash
Andrew Neiman
Obsession as identity. What you sacrifice reveals what you value.
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Mad Men poster
Mad Men
Don Draper
Performing your life instead of living it.
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The Sopranos
Tony Soprano
Awareness without action is just a more comfortable prison.
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Series A · The aspiration

What this movie teaches us about being a man.

Lessons to carry. Characters who show what it looks like to get it right.

Good Will Hunting poster
Good Will Hunting
Stop running.
The walls you build to stay safe are the same ones keeping your life small.
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Gladiator poster
Gladiator
Identity without attachment.
Who you are when everything is taken away.
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The Pursuit of Happyness
Presence over perfection.
Don't disappear when it gets hard.
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Fight Club poster
Fight Club
Build meaning or drift.
Emptiness without direction becomes destruction.
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Interstellar poster
Interstellar
Time is finite.
What are you chasing, and what is it costing your family?
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The archive

Men who've sat down and told the truth.

Since 2014 — sportsmen, authors, soldiers and everyday blokes on what fatherhood actually did to them. Every conversation free.

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