The unmarried daughter of a Texas rancher gives birth to an unwanted child. She puts the child up for adoption and moves away from home. Without her knowledge, her father took the boy and raised him. Twelve years later, she is now a successful family-court judge in L.A. Over the years, she has avoided her father and knows nothing of the child. That all changes when he decides that is time she knew her own child and heads for L.A.
Growing up without a dad, I got a lot of my fatherly advice from the prototypes I saw on the silver screen. It’s these characters and films that gave me a glimpse into a dynamic I had never known but also made me realize that I was missing out. Here are my top 10 paternal films.
A sweet slice-of-life anime that visualizes all the ways we creatively hide our vulnerabilities from the world.
'Don't Lose Your Head' follows the motto of "grades aren't everything."
Bong Joon Ho’s masterpiece, Parasite (2019) became one of the few international films to break into the American mainstream.
How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?
