A Touching Father-Daughter Scene in ‘Spiderman 3′ (Video)

I wrote about this in June but I watched this movie with my daughter again the other night and the touching father-daughter scene between Flint and Penny Marko (pictured) really struck me. Then again, I'm a sucker for that sort of thing.

The hard luck Marko is a none-too-bright small-time thug who steals to pay for medical treatment for his daughter Penny, who is stricken with an illness. While on the run from the police after escaping from prison, he accidentally falls into an experimental particle accelerator that molecularly binds him with sand, giving him shapeshifting abilities and transforming him into "The Sandman."

In the scene above, he's broken out of prison and, while evading the police, goes to visit his little daughter. As she sleeps he stuffs a stack of letters he wrote her from prison under her pillow. The letters were marked "Delivery Refused."

The daughter wakes up and tells him she misses him and gives him a locket with her picture. Marko tells her, "I promise I'll make you healthy again. I'll get the money." He keeps the locket with him and often looks at it.

To watch the clip, click here.

Stephen Baskerville's Taken Into Custody Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fatherhood, Marriage, and the Family by Stephen Baskerville, Ph.D. examines one of the greatest and most destructive civil rights abuses in America today--our family law system. Baskerville has authored many articles on fatherhood and family issues and is a frequent media commentator. To learn more or to purchase Taken Into Custody, click here.

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