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[GarlandGrl]

Okay, the subject is weird, but you know what I mean. Today is Father's day in the US. What are your favorite father/son - father/daughter movies?

[GarlandGrl]

Ah shoot, I just wrote this and lost it.


Captains Courageous - I love both the relationship between Freddie/Spencer and the relationship between his father in the film Melvyn Douglas.

Father of the Bride - I should say the Spencer/Elizabeth version, but I'm cheating here and going for the Steve Martin version. You see, they threw the whole basketball relationship into that and that's what I had with my father. Makes me cry every single time, whether I can help it or not. My father can't play anymore, so all of that has been lost.

I Live My Life - I know this sounds strange, but I love the father/daughter relationship between Crawford and Frank Morgan. Something endearing about it.

So Goes My Love - Don Ameche makes me happy--and he is particularly adorable with his son in the film.

Four Daughters - I almost forgot this one. Claude Rains is just so endearing in this film, it's hard not to love him--with all the hard edges and all. And you all know how I am about the Lane Sisters.

Oh my Garland!

And of course... Little Nellie Kelly. I am Nellie in a lot of ways.

It's interesting, when you really look at a cross section of films from the 30s-50s, it seems like the father is always marginalized quite a bit. Wonder if much has been written about that. Parental relationships especially--need to look more thoroughly through my film list, but except for overtly family films like the Andy Hardy series and such (another good one to add to the list), you really don't get a whole lot of that. Feel free to disagree with me on that...

[RosesForAnn]

Did I post on LJ about my "Captains Courageous" experience? If I didn't, I probably need to. If I had been alone, I would have totally lost it and gotten all Finding Neverland-ish becuase it seriously broke me up. It was really hard for me to watch the ending although I was glad Melvyn seemed to be getting his act together. Um... I'll save it for an LJ post. But I wanna be Manuel's leetle feesh.

Other fathers in movies... hmm. Obviously, there's Atticus Finch. He was my father figure prior to discovering Nelson and he still means a huge deal to me, I must say.

I always adored John Boles as Shirley Temple's dad in "The Littlest Rebel." Also enjoyed "Kathleen" because I have a weakness for Felix Bressart.

Strangely, I also find the relationship in "Paper Moon" fascinating.

And, straying a little from the real to the figurative, the father/son relationship between James Dean and Sal Mineo in "Rebel Without a Cause" always struck a chord in me because when I first was into that movie I too was seeking desperately for anyone who would just love me like that.

I'm sure you and I have probably talked about this before and that I'm forgetting something really obvious here, but those are the ones that come to mind.

[misspennycarrol]

Atticus Finch and Scout are for always with me.

I could be ever so amusing and say that the relationship between Little Mary and her father in The Women, and because I am on a uni-finishing-for-the-semester high, I think I will.

I amuse myself anyway...