I Never Sang for My Father

I Never Sang for My Father

A motion picture the whole world has taken to its heart.

197092 min6.7 / 10

A deeply intimate family drama about the painful, unresolved tension between a son's need for independence and his emotional entanglement with an aging, demanding father.

A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.

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