This award winning primetime ABC and PBS documentary was called one of the most honest and emotional depictions of the male experience ever put to film. For better and for worse, the father-son relationship is at the core of who we are, as this film fully reveals. Based on interviews with over 600 American men and boys, the film shows the diversity yet the universality of the father-son bond. Sprinkled with celebrities, Shaquille O’Neal, Edward James Olmos, Zachary Ty Bryan, the film finds its heart in the real experience of real people.
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“Television doesn’t get a whole lot more visceral, or more genuinely moving, than does this supremely poignant hour… What these boys and men reveal, in waxing eloquent about the job of dad and son, is almost staggering in its candor. It seems as if producer-directors Gary Weimberg, Catherine Ryan, and Judith Leonard have slipped these storytellers some sort of sensitivity serum. Rarely do males allow themselves to be captured in so raw and sincere a state.”
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“Remarkable… simple, highly effective … so visceral … so affecting… It radiates deep love and deep pain. … more of an emotional wallop than a month of Oprah… “
David Hiltbrand, TV Guide
“Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg will pull off a rare double play this summer. The film making duo has secured national airdates on both PBS and ABC for their two new documentaries. The network deal is an accomplishment in itself, given the corporate giants’ reluctance to broadcast out-of-house documentaries, while the PBS broadcast is a tribute to Ryan and Weimberg’s longstanding commitment to activist film making … “
- The men and boys of “Fathers and Sons”
The crew of "Fathers and Sons"
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Shaq and Gary on the set
-Laurence J. Nagle, Brooklyn, NY
“BRAVO for producing the marvelous TV programs Fathers&Sons/Mothers&Daughters. As a marriage and family therapist, who provides therapy for “fatherless” and “motherless” adults, your presentation was priceless! I have wanted something like this for years! Thank you from thousands of sons, daughters, fathers and mothers for addressing this critical issue in America…a long ignored topic.”
-Lexie Hicks, Owensboro, KY
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