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Guillaume Depardieu, Gérard Depardieu, Sylvie Testud, Frederic Polier, Hiam Abbass ... see more see more... , Julien Boisselier , Noémie Kocher

A father and his estranged son hit the road under less than ideal circumstances in Jacob Berger's 2002 film A Loving Father. Famed novelist Leo Shepherd (Gérard Depardieu) has just been notified, via ... read more read more...his daughter Virginia (Sylvie Testud), that he is to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His son Paul (Guillaume Depardieu) also learns of his father's good fortune and attempts to call with his congratulations -- adulations that fall on deaf ears due to a falling out Paul had with his father several years previously. Leo, rather rashly, mounts a motorcycle to make the journey northward from his remote domicile in Switzerland to Sweden to collect the prize, against the advice of his family and close advisors. Paul, still wishing to connect with his father, attempts to catch up with him on the road -- doing so at the scene of an accident that Leo has barely managed to survive. Paul stows his dazed father into his car and sets out to find a hospital. Leo, ever the curmudgeon, strongly denies any need for the hospital and insists he be let on his way, forcing Paul to harness his father to the back seat of his car. Now provided with the opportunity to reach out to his father, Paul continues the voyage his father started and the two are forced to reconcile their differences along the way. A Loving Father was screened at the 2002 Locarno International Film Festival. ~ Ryan Shriver, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Jacob Berger

Release Date: January 13, 2003

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DVD Release Date: May 18, 2004

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  • romy861
    July 20, 2008
    romy861
    Great movie about a dysfunctional family. Gerard Depardieu plays the father, who has always been more interested in his writing than his (now adult) children, and not surprisingly, they have grown up with a few problems! His real life son is great as his movie son who is a reco... read morevered drug addict now trying to form a relationship with his father by admittedly dubious means. Needless to say there is no happy ending to this film, but it has an honesty to it that I really liked, much more than some of the American sugar-coated rubbish I've sat through lately.

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