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The Cinema Show: Father and Sons on Film

Father and Sons on Film

09/12/2006

BBC Four - The Cinema Show, Father and Sons on Film

A look at the relationship between dads and their boys in the movies.

A look at movie dads and their boys in a programme which reveals how the relationship expresses both unchanging desires and rapidly shifting circumstances.

From Great Expectations to the Return of the Jedi to Jerry Maguire, the father-son relationship has been an almost obsessive subject for (mostly male) filmmakers. Sometimes destructive, sometimes wishful, rarely uncomplicated: the relationship is represented in many different ways.

With the role of fathers increasingly in the spotlight, the programme takes a timely look at movie dads and their boys and reveals how the relationship expresses both unchanging desires and rapidly shifting circumstances.

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