I Never Sang for My Father
I Never Sang for My Father is a 1970 American drama film, based on the 1968 play of the same name. It tells the story of a widowed college professor who feels dominated by his aging father, yet still has regrets about his plan to leave him behind when he remarries and moves to California. It stars Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney, Estelle Parsons, and Elizabeth Hubbard.
Plot
At the airport, college professor Gene Garrison meets his parents who have returned from Florida. After driving them home, he takes them out to dinner. Back home, he spends the evening with them. The barbs of his father, Tom, run through his mind as he drives home. Gene seeks solace in the arms of a woman he's been seeing, who pines for a more serious relationship with him. Soon after, his mother, Margaret, suffers a heart attack and is hospitalized. Upon visiting her at the hospital, Gene finds Tom pacing in the waiting room. Tom asks Gene to go to the Rotary Club with him, though Gene was expecting not to leave his mother's side.
Awards
More details
author | Robert Anderson |
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award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
contentLocation | New York |
director | Gilbert Cates |
editor | Angelo Ross |
genre | drama |
keywords | abandon college professor drive even expect heart attack id move nursing home old photograph rotary club think waiting room |
musicBy | Al Gorgoni |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay |
producer | Gilbert Cates |
publisher | Columbia Pictures |