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Celebrating Father’s Day: Father and Son in Film
Deadbeat. Immature. Absentee.
Unfortunately, those are the stereotypes given to many African American fathers, but it is not the reality for many who are doing “the right thing.“ The team at HW celebrates all of the dads who are teaching their sons responsibility, respect, commitment, and the value of education.
Here are our pick(s)–it was a tie– for our favorite videos that we believe best represent father/son relationships.
Boyz N The Hood (1991) The film is about the struggle of three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles. The film shows the crime and senseless violence the plague many urban communities. But, to call it just that would be a poetic injustice–pun intended.
The secondary story about the strong and positive father/son relationship adds to what should be a cinema classic. Laurence Fishburne, who plays divorced father “Furious Styles,” is an active participant and has always had a strong hand in his son’s upbringing–and it shows. Cuba Gooding, Jr plays Tre, the teenage son moving in with him after spending his early childhood living with his mother.
Boyz N The Hood co-stars Angela Bassett, Morris Chestnut, Ice Cube, Regina King and Nia Long.
John Singleton received an Academy Award nomination for best screenplay and directing for this film. Only 24 at the time, he became the youngest person and first African-American to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Director. See why.
Pursuit of Happyness (2006) The film is based on the real life story of entrepreneur, motivational speaker and author Chris Gardner who struggled with homelessness while raising his young son as a single dad. Gardner, who won a spot in the Dean Witter Reynolds Trading program, fell into deep financial troubles, after the program’s small salary left him unable to make ends meet.
Gardner’s, whose own childhood was marked by poverty, abuse and alcoholism, vowed he would never pass that onto his son. His amazing story inspired a New York Times best-selling book and a Hollywood film.
(And, if both were not enough to inspire and motivate, Gardner’s follow up book, Start Where You Are, speaks to anyone struggling to make ends meet–or just struggling to get through the day– to get where you want to be.)
Real life father and son Will and Jaden Smith co-star in this movie which garnered the elder Smith an Oscar nomination as Best Actor.
Tell us your pick for films that best celebrate Dad.
Unfortunately, those are the stereotypes given to many African American fathers, but it is not the reality for many who are doing “the right thing.“ The team at HW celebrates all of the dads who are teaching their sons responsibility, respect, commitment, and the value of education.
Here are our pick(s)–it was a tie– for our favorite videos that we believe best represent father/son relationships.
Boyz N The Hood (1991) The film is about the struggle of three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles. The film shows the crime and senseless violence the plague many urban communities. But, to call it just that would be a poetic injustice–pun intended.The secondary story about the strong and positive father/son relationship adds to what should be a cinema classic. Laurence Fishburne, who plays divorced father “Furious Styles,” is an active participant and has always had a strong hand in his son’s upbringing–and it shows. Cuba Gooding, Jr plays Tre, the teenage son moving in with him after spending his early childhood living with his mother.
Boyz N The Hood co-stars Angela Bassett, Morris Chestnut, Ice Cube, Regina King and Nia Long.
John Singleton received an Academy Award nomination for best screenplay and directing for this film. Only 24 at the time, he became the youngest person and first African-American to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Director. See why.
Pursuit of Happyness (2006) The film is based on the real life story of entrepreneur, motivational speaker and author Chris Gardner who struggled with homelessness while raising his young son as a single dad. Gardner, who won a spot in the Dean Witter Reynolds Trading program, fell into deep financial troubles, after the program’s small salary left him unable to make ends meet.
Gardner’s, whose own childhood was marked by poverty, abuse and alcoholism, vowed he would never pass that onto his son. His amazing story inspired a New York Times best-selling book and a Hollywood film.
(And, if both were not enough to inspire and motivate, Gardner’s follow up book, Start Where You Are, speaks to anyone struggling to make ends meet–or just struggling to get through the day– to get where you want to be.)
Real life father and son Will and Jaden Smith co-star in this movie which garnered the elder Smith an Oscar nomination as Best Actor.
Tell us your pick for films that best celebrate Dad.
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