I got taken along to quite a few more serious movies with my parents as a kid, and I ended up enjoying several of them. Another that stands out is the movie, Four Seasons. It wasn't always a good match though. My parents were very close friends with the parents of the guy my sister dated in high school and college. They'd go on vacations together (see, e.g., Four Seasons) and go out to dinner together pretty regularly. On my eighth birthday, our two families went out to dinner (not the place I would have chosen) and then to a movie. That movie was Mommie Dearest. I'm eight years old. It's my birthday. And they took me to see Mommie Fucking Dearest. I remember feeling ill. Maybe it was the Hungarian food we ate earlier. Anyway, one year, AMC played Mommie Dearest on a loop for 24 hours on Mother's Day. Now I find it funny in the worst sort of way because Faye Dunnaway is so over the top. I also watched a bunch of not-age-appropriate stuff as a result of our getting cable in the late 70s. Back then, TMC (the only movie channel we had) would play the movie of the month several times each day. So at age 7, I'd seen the Shining 30 times. The list goes on. About twenty years ago, a friend and I wrote a parody of Life's Little Instruction book if all of your life lessons were learned watching cable in the 80s. Somehow, I'd saved all the cable guides from back in the day and used them in a collage as the artwork for the rear dust jacket of the book.