The Finishers: Film with a new take on rebuilding relationships

By Jane Freebury
April 21 2014 - 3:00am

Father and son relationships tend to get quite a run at the movies. It's there in a family drama where father and adult son work it out - as they finally do in Silver Linings Playbook. Other dramas with a lower profile have also featured this important relationship. Life as a House, for example, in which Kevin Kline plays a recalcitrant father opposite teen rebel Hayden Christensen, and Beginners, in which Ewan McGregor has to sort out his filial feelings before moving on.