Family Law Movies

  • Evelyn (2002) Pierce Brosnan [custody set in Ireland]
  • The Winslow Boy (1999) Robert Morton [children and schools]
  • I Am Sam (2001) Rita Harrison & Sean Penn [custody]
  • Kramer vs. Kramer (1980) Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, and Jane Alexander [custody]
  • Losing Isaiah (1995) Jessica Lange and Halle Berry [custody/adoption]
  • The War of the Roses (1989), Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, and Danny DeVito [divorce]
  • Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) Robin Williams [visitation]
  • Laws of Attraction (2004) Pierce Brosnan Julianne Moore [married lawyers; divorce case scene]
  • Adam's Rib (1949) Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn [married lawyers]
  • One More River (1934) Diana Wynyard , Colin Clive [divorce]
  • All Of Me (1984) Lily Tomlin & Steve Martin [divorce case scene]
  • The Decision of Christopher Blake, (1948) [divorce/effect on children]
  • Irreconcilable Differences (1984) Drew Barrymore [daughter seeks divorce from parents]
  • A Thousand Clowns (1965)[child protection]
  • The Champ (1931 and 1979)[single parenting after divorce]
  • The Awful Truth (1937) Carey Grant & Irene Dunne [divorce/custody of pet]
  • Divorce American Style (1967) Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds, [divorce]
  • Scenes from a Marriage (1973) [psychology of divorce]
  • The Good Mother (1988) Diane Keaton and Liam Neeson [custody/sexual abuse allegations]
  • We're Not Married (1952) Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, and Eve Arden [void marriages]
  • Immediate Family (1989) Glenn Close and Mary Stuart Masterson - [Custody and adoption]
  • The Burning Bed (TVM 1984) Farrah Fawcett [domestic violence]
  • A Map of the World (1999) Sigourney Weaver [child abuse]
  • Monsoon Wedding (2002) [incestual child abuse set in India]
  • What's Love Got to Do With It (1993) Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne [domestic violence]
  • A Cry For Help: The Tracy Thurman Story (1989) Nancy McKeon and Bruce Weitz [police responses to domestic violence]
  • Sleeping With the Enemy (1991) Julia Roberts [domestic violence]
  • Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) - [psychological aspects of domestic violence]
  • Gaslight (1944) - Ingrid Bergman. [domestic violence - psychological abuse]
  • Hollow Reed (1995) Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson, Ian Hart, [custody/abuse/same-sex parents]
  • River Red (1998) Tom Everett Scott, David Moscow, Cara Buono, [juvenile delinquency]
  • Not Without My Daughter (1991) Sally Field [international relocation/custody]