The Good Father is a 1985 British film directed by Mike Newell and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Fanny Viner, Simon Callow, Joanne Whalley, and Michael Byrne.

He acts out his anger by befriending Roger, a man who is being sued for divorce by his wife so that she can enter into a lesbian relationship with her lover.

Soon Bill, who has focused his anger against feminism, which he blames for robbing him of his family, begins to feel doubt for what he and his new friend are doing.

In The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote, The Good Father "is full of ironic surprises.

It's the kind of 'small' film that, by recording so accurately the minute details of particular lives, also manages - without effort - to evoke the larger, mostly unseen context in which these lives are led: the England of Margaret Thatcher and a society that now only dimly remembers the excitement and urgency of the political commitment of the 1960's.