Posted on 06/14/2013 7:11:14 PM PDT by Sparky21555
These are five of my favorite movies with Father and Son. Name yours.
LOL!When my oldest son went off to college I found my VHS copy of that flick under his bed when we cleaned his room.
The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend (Pete Maravich) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak2F9ynBL48
While I know Martin Sheen certainly has his issues, he's also in two great, albeit somewhat unconventional, father and son movies:
*sniff*
Memories...
1st movie, that I can remember, that made Andy Garcia stand out as an actor.
Big Fish
Indeed. Frequency is definitely one of my favorite movies.
Field of Dreams for me too...
<This might seem like an odd one, but “Enemy Mine” comes as close to father and son as any.
I was just going to post this. ‘Enemy Mine’ was one of the last movies we saw as a family before my husband died. He was so sensitive to the father/son aspect, though I think that at the time my son didn’t quite get why he was so affected by it.
Now, it brings tears to my eyes just to think of the movie and our family time watching it. I think it is a true father/son movie and now our son is old enough to get it and is quite moved by it.
A great character created by Pat Conroy, and masterfully played by Robert Duvall.
Conroy's dad had a pretty big hand in *creating* that character...
29th Street is excellent.
I had a boss out in Denver who was a big John Wayne fan (me too). He was also very conscious of how he looked.
One evening his back locked up on him in the Columbine Lounge and the paramedics hauled him out of the place on a board to the hospital (I think it was Swedish). He was in a lot of pain.
I went to visit him in the hospital and took him flowers as a joke. He was still out on his back, and I just stood there staring at him with my handful of flowers without saying anything. Finally he says, “OK! Whats on your mind!” I replied that looking at him I knew I’d seen that look before. He says, “Out with it!” I replied, “It seems to me John Wayne had a stubble of beard like yours right before he died.”
The next day, I went back to see him, and the nurse stopped me in the hall and said, “I don’t know what you said to him yesterday, but after you left, he got up off that board and shaved.”
Yes, indeed.
Yep.
Michael Corleone basically turns into George $oros in GFIII.
If you get a chance, watch it again.
I really liked the second Christmas Story. I think a lot of people expected too much from it (the first is a classic), and it starts out a little forced and weird- let’s face it, the new actors had a tough task in front of them...
but it really examines the father son relationship of Ralphie and the Old Man. Not to spoil too much, but Ralphie wrecks a car, and his father wants to teach him the responsibility that goes with that, yet stand by him. We love it.
Also, the In-Laws - the older one with Peter Falk. Probably one of the funniest movies of all time. All I have to do is mention the Guacamole act of 1919 and giant tse-tse flies in my house and someone is sure to crack up.
I think that Pacino and Garcia are 2 of the best actors in Hollyweird today.
when I was a kid Dad took me with him to see Jim Thorpe All American (Bert Lancaster) I am Indian so he wanted me to see how far an Indian can go if he wants to.
Grumpier Old Men.
I choked up when Jack Lemon (son) finds Burgess Meredith (dad) sitting on a bench by the lake, dead.
How many fathers and sons have had antagonistic relationships, and yet the loss of one is heartbreaking.
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