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Father and Sons on Film
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.
Last on
Wed 23 Jun 2010
03:00
Credit
Role | Contributor |
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Producer | Bill MacLeod |
Broadcasts
- Tue 22 Jun 2010 23:00
- Wed 23 Jun 2010 03:00