Islands in the Stream (1977), These Wilder Years (1956), American Heart (1992), Around the Bend (2004), Being Flynn (2012), Walkaway Joe (2020), Carbon Copy (1981), Memories of Me (1988) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Father-son Reunion movies.
Storyline: A Hemingwayesque artist (George C. Scott) plays and drinks in the 1940s Bahamas, visited by his first wife (Claire Bloom) and three sons.
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, war, family, father-son relationship, literary adaptation, artist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Successful middle-aged businessman Steve Bradford returns to the town where he attended college many years previously. His conscience has been bothering him since whilst a student, he fathered an illegitimate son who was given away to the local orphanage. He returns to the orphanage and meets its current head, Ann Dempster, hoping to persuade her to help him find his son. She refuses but Steve finds himself getting more involved at the orphanage and learns many lessons life had failed to teach him.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, emotional, father-son relationship, coming of age, american film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the day he is released from the state penitentiary on parole after serving five years for robbery, Jack Kelson is tracked down by his now fourteen year old son, Nick Kelson, who wants to be with his father. Jack, in turn, wants nothing to do with Nick, both in having enough to contend with in getting his life on track for himself, and knowing that his own life has been one big failure, he determined for Nick not to get caught up in that cycle. Regardless as Nick cannot be dissuaded, the pair try to eke out a life together living in a rundown residential hotel in a low income neighborhood in Seattle, with the pipe dream of moving to the land of opportunity of frontier Alaska. While Jack goes to work for a commercial window washing business - one of the lies he telling Nick being he has a job as a construction supervisor - and strikes a relationship with Charlotte, a cab driver who wrote to him in prison, Nick has his first case of puppy love for Molly, a teen prostitute who lives with her adolescent brother Roy and stripper/prostitute mother Diane in a unit in the same building, leading to Nick being ensconced within a group of street youth to which Molly belongs. As the going gets tough, it may be easy for Jack to fall into old routines and Nick to follow in Jack's past footsteps, especially as Jack's old criminal associate Ray, who learned everything he knows from Jack, comes around trying to pull one or both into the life.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, father-son relationship, social outcasts, independent film, 1990s, redemption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Los Angeles, Jason Lair is recently separated, living with his grandfather and his son. He's a banker, tense, with a limp. Grandfather Henry, an archaeologist, wants to take the family van on a trip to Albuquerque. His plans are interrupted when Turner, Jason's father and Henry's son, appears after years of absence. Henry wants to celebrate family, as does Zach, Jason's son; Jason is angry and distant, Turner seems detached and says he's got a bus to catch in the morning. This prompts Henry to put in place an elaborate plan that will send his "tribe" on that Volkswagen bus trip to New Mexico sorting out relationships and digging up a crippled family history.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: family, father-son relationship, reconciliation, road movie, generational conflict, inheritance, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nick Flynn, in his 20s, hasn't found his place in the world yet, but hopes to be a writer. Around the time he takes a job at a homeless shelter in Boston, his father, Jonathan, who considers himself a great writer and who hasn't see Nick in years, abruptly makes fleeting contact. A few months later, the down-and-out Jonathan shows up at Nick's shelter and becomes a resident. This disorients Nick; he doesn't handle it well, compounded by Jonathan's belligerent behavior. Nick's memories of his mother, his budding relationship with a co-worker, and his own demons make things worse. Can anything improve? Is he his father's son?
Plot Keywords: drama, father-son relationship, writer, new york, homelessness, self-discovery, family conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the tradition of American classics, WALKAWAY JOE is the story of an unlikely friendship between a young boy searching for his father, and a wandering loner hiding from his past. In each other they experience the power of a second chance, and a shot at redemption.—Michael Milillo
Plot Keywords: drama, adventure, family, father-son relationship, road movie, coming of age, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a black teen-age son who can't wait to be adopted into the almost exclusively white community of San Marino, California.—K. Rose <rcs@texas.net> and horrendous punctuation corrected by Brooks
Plot Keywords: comedy, race, family, father-son relationship, identity, social class, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On his girlfriend's insistence, a disgruntled man tries to make peace with his high-spirited, street-smart and often irritatingly careless father, a failed actor who never quit his dream to be a success.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, father-son relationship, hollywood, actor's life, reconciliation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Carlton Garrett, son of Hall of Famer Kyle Garrett, plays minor league ball in Corpus Christi. He's in a slump when his grandfather calls to say that his mother, in Houston, is refusing a heart operation she needs to prolong her life. She says she won't have the operation until Kyle, her ex-husband, comes to see her. So Carlton, with his close friend Lucy, who used to be his girlfriend, goes to Columbus, Ohio, where Kyle is signing autographs. They haven't spoken in four years. Will Kyle go to Texas or will he find a way to duck out, as he's done for years? In addition to the father and son relationship, what about Lucy, and what about the slump?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: road movie, father-son relationship, family drama, reconciliation, usa, coming of age, journey ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While still in his teens, Donny (Adam Sandler) fathered son Todd (Andy Samberg) and raised him alone until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after years apart, Donny suddenly shows up uninvited on the eve of Todd's wedding. Donny tries desperately to reconnect with Todd and is forced to deal with the results of his bad parenting skills.
Plot Keywords: comedy, crude humor, father-son relationship, adult content, coming of age, celebrity culture, childhood trauma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Michael Cromwell is a successful albeit self-absorbed commodities broker who wants to marry his new girlfriend, but to do that he has to divorce his ex-wife who has spent several years living among South American Indians. When he travels there to obtain the divorce papers, he discovers he has a teenage son, who accompanies him back to America to learn the ways of the urban jungle.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, adventure, culture clash, jungle, father-son relationship, remake ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The star of SOMETHING HUGE, Berto Romero, after years of success in film & TV wants toexplore 'a new shape of comedy': the comedy of the future. In parallel, Carlo Padial, directorof experimental films & documentaries, is exploring a new comedy route - both will meetunder casual circumstances.SOMETHING HUGE is the hilariously moving and inspiring journey of a comedian (BertoRomero) and an indie film director (Carlo Padial) who decide to create 'the biggest, mostforthcoming and futuristic comedy ever made in Spain'. The project, named SOMETHINGHUGE, will need a big team, healthy production and many special effects. They both havethe best intentions to make it work, nevertheless they will run into complications that willmake it difficult for them to wrap 'the biggest futuristic comedy in the history of Spanishcinema'.They will soon realise that not only do they not have enough resources to finish the film butthat neither themselves (nor anyone in the crew) really know what the film is actually about.The film, shot in mockumentary style, follows Berto Romero through the preparation andfilming process of the futuristic comedy, full of special effects and showing all the technicalhurdles as well his human side - both as a comedian and as a person.Is SOMETHING HUGE the seed of a masterpiece, mysterious and oddly fun or is it thegreatest most expensive spoof in history? SOMETHING HUGE is the story of a dream. Astory of underdogs, naivety, caos, chromas, visual effects, craziness and a lot of banter andteasing. So much banter it will make you cry.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, family, mystery, father-son relationship, disappearance, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Maria, a successful businesswoman, wants a baby of her own, and sets out to make her dreams come true.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, parent-child relationship, coming of age, touching, heartwarming, father-son relationship ...
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