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Theme: Empty Nest
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Toy Story 4
Toy feels useless and empty after child grows up
Midwinter Break (2026)
Woman searches for meaning
Paddington in Peru (2024)
Newly empty nesters wonder, "What's next?"
Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)
Parents feel loss when teen becomes more independent
Last Christmas (2019)
Mother puts the "S" in smother
Zootopia (2016)
Parents worry as grown child leaves for big city
Joy (2015)
Father tries to talk bride out of marriage
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015)
Parents discuss sadness of empty nest
Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
Emotional mother takes freshman daughter to college
Into the Woods (2014)
Mother begs grown daughter to stay at home
