Top 10 Worst Movie Parents

The Top Ten
1 Corrine Dollanganger - Flowers in the Attic

She abandones her children in the Attic of her parents house leaving them all to die while she gets ready to marry off to lawyer.

2 Buck Cluck - Chicken Little

Out of all the characters on this list, Buck is the only one I'd quantify as a legitimately bad person. The others are all insane or murderous. After his son makes a fool out of himself, Buck attempts to distance himself from his son to keep his social standing. That is HORRIBLE parenting. It gets even worse when Buck suddenly supports his son after he becomes the town hero, and then abandons him AGAIN after he attempts to warn of the invasion.

Yes, I know he eventually realizes he's never there for his son, and stands by him against the red alien in the ship, but that doesn't make any of the things he did okay. Buck was a surprisingly mean spirited character, even going so far as to call his own son an embarrassment. What a jerk.

He didn't support his son when he claimed the sky was falling and just allows the townspeople to harass and torment Chicken Little.

3 Jack Torrance - The Shining John Daniel Edward "Jack" Torrance is the main antagonist of Stephen King's horror novel The Shining.

To be honest he wasn't exactly father of the year to begin with, he's an alcoholic who spends more time at work than ay home and his abusive.

4 Jay's Mom - Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

She's the reason why Jay is the way he is.

5 Judge Claude Frollo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame

After killing off Quasimodo's mother and almost drowns him he gets guilt tripped into taking him in as his son locking him away in the bell tower, and spending all those years convincing him the world is a cruel and hearless place full of sinners.

6 Joe Dirt's Parents - Joe Dirt

Joe spent his whole life looking for them only to find out they didn't even bother to look for him or even cared that he was gone even admitting that they purposely abandoned him at the Grand Canyon and the only reason they want to be in his live again is because he's famouse, Joe gets so upset over it that he tries to commit suicide.

7 Lady Tremaine - Cinderella
8 King and Queen of Arendelle - Frozen

Rather than helping their daughter to control her powers they instead choose to hide them which made the situation even worst.

Were they really meant to raise children?

9 Once-Ler's Parents - Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

When Once-Ler first leaves they all laugh at him hoping he fails, when he actually succeeds then they want him back in their lives they convince him to cut down the trees to increase productivity breaking his promise to the Lorax after all the trees get cut down killing off his business the up and leave calling him a disappointment.

His parents have ailed abortion whose birth certificate is an apology from the condom factory.
And his aunt
And his uncle
But dad? Dad is dead.

10 Caillou’s Parents - Caillou’s Holiday Movie

They never punish their son for any of his obvious wrongdoings because they're far too oblivious to see what an annoying and over-privileged little brat he is.

The Contenders
11 Grandpa Joe - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Do grandparents count? If so, then this guy should absolutely already be here!

12 The Wormwoods - Matilda

From the beginning they show absolute no interest in Matilda leaving her alone all day and even ignoring all the torment she goes through with the principal.

13 Kevin's Parents - Home Alone
14 Mother Gothel - Tangled Mother Gothel is the main antagonist of Disney's 2010 animated feature film, Tangled. She is a wicked crone who retained youth for hundreds of years through the healing properties of a magic, golden flower.
15 Ariel - The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
16 Ego - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
17 Reese Bobby - Talladega Nights the Ballad of Ricky Bobby
18 Johnny’s Parents - The Outsiders
19 Kerchak - Tarzan
20 Mufasa - The Lion King Mufasa is a major character in Disney's 1994 animated feature film, The Lion King. He is Simba's father, Sarabi's mate, Scar's older brother, and was King of the Pride Lands until his death. He is voiced by James Earl Jones.

Authoritarian and overprotective. Forced a species (the hyenas) to live in a graveyard where they starve to death, and didn't let his son (Simba) go where he wanted to go, even if he had an adult guardian (Zazu) for protection. Mufasa fails on many levels.

I'm glad I don't have someone like Mufasa as a father, because if I did, then I would be grounded for the rest of my life, and I'm thankful that I'm not.

21 Lila Crane - Psycho II

In opposite to protect your daughter to anyone danger, she makes her daughter seduces Norman Bates for make him go crazy for the second time. I hate Lila Crane with all my love. I think she's so annoying and her scream... I'll never want her to be my mother.

22 Thanos - Avengers: Infinity War Thanos is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Jim Starlin and Mike Friedrich. The character first appeared in Iron Man #55 and has been portrayed by actors Damion Poitier and Josh Brolin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
23 Margaret White - Carrie
24 George Darling - Peter Pan
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