Parental Guidance is a 2012 American family comedy film directed by Andy Fickman, from a screenplay written by Lisa Addario, and Joe Syracuse.

It stars Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei, and Tom Everett Scott, and follows a couple who are asked to look after their grandchildren by their skeptical daughter, while she and her husband are out of town.

Artie Decker, a sports commentator for the minor league Fresno Grizzlies, is fired due to his old-fashioned personality and lack of social media savvy.

After telling his wife, Diane, the news, they get a call from their daughter, Alice, and son-in-law, Phil, asking them to come to Atlanta to babysit their three children, Harper, Turner, and Barker, while they attend an entrepreneur convention in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

After learning of their grandchildren's various problems, such as Harper's "high achievement syndrome", Turner's stutter, and Barker's imaginary friend, Carl the Kangaroo, Artie and Diane try to bond with them.

The tension comes to a head when Alice discovers Diane has allowed Harper to attend a party the night before a violin recital and Barker claims Carl has been hit and killed by a car.