Dallas 362 (2003)

Conventional wisdom says there is no substitute for a father’s guidance in a boy’s life, but Dallas 362 (2003) illustrates that a single mom can provide her mannish son with a profound and life-enhancing example of how an adult should behave, especially if she’s banging a guy who is a therapist as well as a bedmate. Quirky, clever Jeff Goldblum is the psychologist boyfriend, and slinky, spiritual Kelly Lynch is the concerned mother. What kid could resist the character-building ministrations of two such compelling life coaches? Director/writer Scott Caan, real-life son of perennial bad boy James Caan, paints a picture of decency dawning within an inveterate delinquent and also appears onscreen as the wayward son’s bad-influence friend.