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I Never Sang for My Father (1970)iMDB Rating: 7.4Date Released : 22 November 1971
Genre : Drama
Stars : Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney, Estelle Parsons
Movie Quality : BRrip
Format : MKV
Size : 870 MB
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Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just before the wedding, the mother dies. Hackman's sister (who has been disowned by their father for marrying a Jewish man) advises him to live his own life, and not let himself be controlled by their father.
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Review :
Worrisome and moving film about father-son relationship.
I saw this movie as a very young man with a father who was growing very old. Even then it worried me as it reminded me of my relationship with my own father who had complained that we weren't spending as much time together as in my boyhood. Remembering this film now with three grown sons makes me wonder if they suffer from the same contradictory feelings I had for my father at their ages.
And this is exactly what makes this film great. It essays the human condition in its stark reality.
Quite frankly I wouldn't have seen this film if I didn't know Gene Hackman from his French Connection series. Oh, I knew it would be some kind of very talky drama but just the same I wanted to see how he would do in such a story. He did very well.
If you are curious about the title see my question in the discussion board and the compleat answer by Cassandra.
If you like themes like this see also Death of a Salesman (the version with Frederic March) and Nothing in Common (Tom Hanks).
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