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I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER. Gene Garrison (Gene Hackman), a forty-year-old New York college professor, is forced to put his plans to marry and move away from his aging parents on hold when his mother dies. Never able to please his irascible father, Tom (Melvyn Douglas), he’s now forced to contend with him without his mother’s gentle ...
Based on the Robert Anderson play, it is the story of an 80-year-old man's dominance over his widowed son, and belligerence towards his daughter who married ...
Summary. This is the story of Gene, a widower, with an elderly mother whom he loves and an eighty-year-old father, whom he has never loved, hard as he tried. The father has been mayor of a small town in Westchester County, self-made and highly respected. Beneath these trappings, however, he is a mean, unloving and ungenerous man, who has driven ...
Oct 18, 1970 · Based on the play by Robert Anderson, I Never Sang for My Father is devoted to the prickly relationship between aged Tom Garrison (Melvyn Douglas) and his grown son Gene (Gene Hackman). A college professor who feels that he has never been fully accepted by his self-made dad, Gene announces that he is going to move from New York to marry a California divorcee.
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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Tony Mastroianni Cleveland Press. I Never Sang For My Father is an emotion filled drama, a realistic and often painful look at the relationship of a middle aged son and his elderly father. But the ...
1 hr 32 min. 7.4 (2,970) I Never Sang for My Father is an intense and emotional drama from 1970 that tells a powerful story of family, loss, and regret. With an exceptional cast that includes Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, and Dorothy Stickney, the film is a poignant exploration of the complexities of relationships and the struggles of aging.
