| Fathers and Sons | |
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| Directed by | Carl Bessai |
| Written by | Carl Bessai |
| Produced by | Carl Bessai Jason James |
| Starring | Benjamin Ratner Jay Brazeau Stephen Lobo Manoj Sood Tyler Labine Vincent Gale |
| Cinematography | Carl Bessai |
| Edited by | Mark Shearer |
| Music by | Schaun Tozer |
Production company | Ravenwest Films |
| Distributed by | Kinosmith |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Fathers & Sons is a 2010 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Carl Bessai. [1] An unofficial sequel to his 2008 film Mothers & Daughters , it used a similar process of improvisational character development to dramatize several stories of relationships between fathers and sons. [2]
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Bernie (Benjamin Ratner) meets his estranged father Anton (Jay Brazeau) for the first time at his mother's funeral; Kama (Stephen Lobo) is an accountant who is embarrassed to introduce his fiancée (Sonja Bennett) to his flamboyant gay Bollywood choreographer father Satish (Manoj Sood); Viv (Viv Leacock) and his father Blu (Blu Mankuma) don't see eye to eye about money; Vince (Vincent Gale), Sean (Tyler Labine), Hrothgar (Hrothgar Mathews), and Tom (Tom Scholte) are four brothers, not especially close, who are in for a surprise at the reading of their late father's will. [3]
The film won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Columbia Film in 2010. [4]
Bessai followed up with a third film in his "Family Trilogy", Sisters & Brothers , in 2011. [5]