I Never Sang for My Father

I Never Sang for My Father

Year: 1970

Runtime: 92 mins

Language: English

Director: Gilbert Cates

DramaMoving relationship storiesHeartbreaking and moving family dramaEmotional and touching family dramasPowerful stories of heartbreak and suffering

Hackman portrays a New York professor who, yearning for change, plans to marry his girlfriend and move to California. His mother, supportive yet warning about the strain on his estranged father, dies just before the wedding. His disowned sister, ostracized for marrying a Jewish man, urges him to live on his own and not be dominated by their father.

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