As we look at the statistics, it is obvious that the physical presence of a responsible father plays a pivotal role in the success of the next generation, from emotional health, through education, crime prevention, and financial success.
But it was the rapport between Streep and Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman who plays Father Flynn that was central to getting the story across.
In this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's revered 2006 novel, Viggo Mortensen, caked in grime, plays the father with a fierce physicality and tremulous woundedness.
Christopher Plummer is also on the shortlist for the movie Beginners, in which he plays an elderly father who comes out of the closet.
His father, Kidd Jordan, plays avant-garde saxophone, while his mother is a classical pianist.
My son plays chess with my father on Skype daily (despite my father living only seven miles away).
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One interesting note: Actor James Lancaster plays a small role as Father Jeremy.
Farrell plays Emma Thompson's father in the film, which he said had one of the "most beautiful scripts I've read in 15 years".
Ms. EDWARDS: The relationship that he has with his family, the extent to which he is the good father, you know, who coaches soccer, plays with them, those kinds of things, and the relationship he has with his spouse tells them something about him.
Many of us are lucky enough to recall with pleasure the Christmases of our childhood: the gifts left by the chimney for Father Christmas, carols sung in biting cold weather, nativity plays, the warm glow we felt as Mother carried in the flaming Christmas pudding decorated with holly.
In the movie, Murray plays a man trying to unload an elephant left to him by his estranged late father, a circus clown, left it to him.
This time out, Orlando Bloom plays a troubled young man who must head home to Kentucky after the sudden death of his father.
Dennis Quaid plays Arlis Sweeney, who as a young boy was an unwilling accomplice to the crimes of his father (James Caan).
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