“The Sins of the Father”
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THE SON is a powerful, often tense drama about the sins of the father being visited on the offspring. Hugh Jackman delivers a superb performance. At first, the son is unable to tell his father what’s bothering him. It becomes clear, however, that the father’s cheating on the son’s mother and leaving her for another woman is the issue. A visit with the grandfather reveals it’s a multi-generational problem. MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution for some foul language, family arguments and a theme of suicide.
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Light, subtle moral worldview condemns adultery and breaking marriage vows, and shows the negative, devastating effects they have on children
Seven obscenities (including two “f” words) and five light exclamatory profanities
Teenage boy is found having tried to take his life and spends a day or so under suicide watch in a psychiatric ward, a gunshot is heard, scars on teenager’s arm shows he’s been cutting himself, and movie contains a theme of suicide and mental health issues
Implied marital sex and there are references to past adultery and the breakup of a marriage
Brief upper male nudity in two scenes
Some alcohol use
No smoking or drugs; and,
Teenage boy skips school for weeks at a time twice without telling parents (the second time he promised to keep going, but he lied), boy’s father and mother are divorced and living separately (the father with his former mistress, whom he married).
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After a few weeks, Nicholas seems to be thriving living with his father and Beth. But, has Nicholas really recovered from the trauma of his father abandoning his mother?
THE SON is a powerful, often tense drama about the sins of the father being visited on the offspring. Hugh Jackman delivers a superb performance. At first, the son is unable to tell his father what’s bothering him. It becomes clear, however, that the father’s cheating on the son’s mother and leaving her for another woman is the issue. A visit with the grandfather reveals it’s a multi-generational problem.
MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution for some foul language, family arguments and a theme of suicide in THE SON. The movie also has a depressing, heartbreaking ending.
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