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Jun 16, 2019
1:30:22pm
Gustav All-American
Favorite movies about fathers
Or at least in which fatherhood is a major theme:

Frequency - Plot makes no sense but the emotional resonance is strong enough that I love it anyway.

My Father's Glory - A son's memories of a family trip to Provence. The sequel, My Mother's Castle, is also good, though the first is a little better IMO.

About Time - More of a rom-com, but the father-son relationship is the one that really hits for me.

In the Name of the Father - Arguably the GOAT Irish film, starring the GOAT actor (DDL). Pete Postlethwaite is great as his father, also wrongfully imprisoned for a bombing.

Day After Tomorrow - Not a great movie, but I love the cheesy emotional drive of the father going to rescue his son.

Billy Elliott - One of my favorite movie endings.

Searching - Not a great movie, but a solid one and very ingeniously crafted. Really like John Cho in it.

Big Fish - Cheesy fun. A lot of visually cool scenes and a nice father-son through-line.

Royal Tenanbaums - Great movie. Bad father tries to make amends.

The Castle - Love both fathers in this. Criminally underappreciated.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Great step-dad movie.

The Descendants - Either this or Michael Clayton is my favorite George Clooney movie. Was surprised how much I enjoyed it.

Road to Perdition - One of Tom Hanks' best roles.

Into the West - Great little Irish movie about a couple kids who become convinced their mother's spirit is guiding a white horse their Traveler grandfather finds. They head to the coast on horseback while their father tries to find them.

Midnight Special - Love Michael Shannon in this as a father trying to protect his strangley gifted son from pursuers.

Morris from America - Not great, but solid movie about Craig Robertson as a single dad living with in Heidelberg with his son while he works as a soccer coach. Mostly a fish out of water story, from the son's point of view, but the father-son dynamic is well done.
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