# Is there a book or movie with this May-December plot?

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**Created:** [October 6, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-book-or-movie-with-this-may-december-plot/798075 "2017-10-06T00:30:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-book-or-movie-with-this-may-december-plot/798075/1 "2017-10-06T00:30:10Z")

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A discussion about how common it is for older actors to be paired up with much younger actresses got me wondering if there are any stories with a different outcome than you typically see on a show like Modern Family. So is there a book or movie that has a plot similar to this?

A man in his sixties marries a much younger woman and after some deliberation they decide to have kids. He won’t be around forever but his wife is twenty or thirty years younger than him so she’ll definitely be around for their children…

… until she’s not.

Cancer, a car accident, or something else kills her quite unexpectedly, leaving him to raise two or more very small children on his own.

This isn’t what he signed on for but he has to cope with being the reliable parent now because he is all his kids have now.

So, anything?

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**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-book-or-movie-with-this-may-december-plot/798075/2 "2017-10-06T08:24:42Z")

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The guy isn’t that old, but the plot of Jack and Sarah fits the rest. Wife dies in labour and father has to raise child on his own.

> **[Jack and Sarah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_Sarah)**
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> Jack and Sarah is a 1995 romantic comedy film written and directed by Tim Sullivan and starring Richard E. Grant, Samantha Mathis, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Cherie Lunghi and Ian McKellen.
> Jack and Sarah are expectant parents, renovating their home for their soon-to-be expanding family. One night, Jack in a panic over getting Sarah to the hospital falls down the stairs and bangs his head. He wakes in hospital to find that Sarah had died after giving birth to their daughter. Grief-stricken, J...