Heavy movie.
Gene Hackman plays the son to Melvyn Douglas' overbearing father. Unlike his sister, played by Estelle Parsons, Hackman has stayed close to his parents both physically and emotionally. But now that Mom has passed things come to the forefront. This father/son relationship which was never good, strains at the seams.
This isn't my usual type of movie. It was a bit too talkie for my tastes with no real action or even tension. But the acting was crisp and the storyline very real. Fortunately I had a much closer relationship with my father but at the end when Hackman says: "Death ends a life. But it does not end a relationship; which struggles on in the survivor's mind, toward some resolution, which it may never find" it hit me hard.
Gene Hackman plays the son to Melvyn Douglas' overbearing father. Unlike his sister, played by Estelle Parsons, Hackman has stayed close to his parents both physically and emotionally. But now that Mom has passed things come to the forefront. This father/son relationship which was never good, strains at the seams.
This isn't my usual type of movie. It was a bit too talkie for my tastes with no real action or even tension. But the acting was crisp and the storyline very real. Fortunately I had a much closer relationship with my father but at the end when Hackman says: "Death ends a life. But it does not end a relationship; which struggles on in the survivor's mind, toward some resolution, which it may never find" it hit me hard.