While Billy is resentful and reluctant to bond with his father, a series of improvements in his parenting skills (from Ted no longer burning meals to his caring for Billy after a playground accident) help the father and the son bond.
This Oscar-winning adaptation of Avery Corman’s novel has Ted (Dustin Hoffman) forced to be mother and father to his young son Billy (Justin Henry) when his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) leaves him.
The character of Bull was based on the father of the novel’s author Pat Conroy. And Duvall, who was nominated for an Oscar (as was O’Keefe), gives an unforgettable performance. Moreover, Bull goads Ben with the basketball, hitting him in the head over and over and over again. After Ben beats him in a one-on-one game - the first time anyone in the family beats Bill in a game - Bull wants to cheat his son out of his victory. He is especially tough on his eldest son Ben (Michael O’Keefe), a high school basketball star. Robert Duvall stars as the title character, Lieutenant Colonel “Bull” Meechum in the Marines, who is a stern taskmaster when it comes to his family. As Mason experiences the heartbreaks of adolescence (learning that his father sold the Pontiac GTO sports car he had hoped to inherit, his first breakup), the dad helps the son forge a path that allows him to face the world and meet life’s challenges head-on. (Ellar Coltrane) slowly learning to bond with his divorced dad (Ethan Hawke) through various heart-to-heart chats. Richard Linklater’s astonishing coming-of-age drama, filmed over a 12-year period, has Mason Jr. “I Never Sang for My Father” is a squirm-inducing film, but that’s what makes this adaption of Robert Anderson’s play so good. But the old man does not make loving him easy. Gene wants to - needs to - love his father. He doesn’t want his dad to be a stranger to him, like Tom’s father was to him. Yes, the ties that bind sometimes strangle as widower Gene puts off moving to California to be with Peggy (Elizabeth Hubbard) because his mother dies, leaving Tom alone. Tom can’t talk to his son without criticizing him or giving him direction. And Gene, who is fed up with being treated like a child, feels guilty if he stands up to dad. Tom Garrison (Melvyn Douglas in an Oscar-nominated performance) is an irascible 80-year-old father to his dutiful son Gene (Gene Hackman, also Oscar-nominated). In honor of Father’s Day, here are 10 memorable fathers on film.
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While folks might think the ultimate bad father-son movie is the “Star Wars” trilogy, I prefer dads who are tough but who try to be tender toward their children. I don’t think “When Did You Last See Your Father” is a particularly good film, though the performances are solid it is just my cinematic Kryptonite. The film so completely wrecked me that as I was sobbing in the parking lot afterward, strangers came up to me expressing their concern that something terrible had happened. But Broadbent resembled my late father just enough, and I am a writer, so this film pushed all of my emotional buttons. The father and son in the film have had a difficult, complicated relationship that was nothing remotely like the loving one I had with my dad. A decade ago I had what can best be described as a complete breakdown at the Telluride Film Festival during and after a screening of the film “When Did You Last See Your Father.” The film, based on Blake Morrison’s memoir, concerns a writer (Colin Firth), who tries to reconnect with his dying dad (Jim Broadbent). This story has been corrected since it was originally published.įilms about fathers and sons are most likely to make me cry.