I Never Sang for My Father

Pros: cast, script, direction, unique film
Cons: sets, score, very depressing

Hollywood typically depicts the elderly, when they are depicted at all, as being genial sages or charming eccentrics. But there is another side to aging, and that is the spiritual and mental decline that often accompanies the physical deterioration....

Pros: Honest, authentic, compassionate, well acted, touching, realistic.
Cons: depressing, intrusive strident C&W song

I Never Sang for My Father is not an easy film to watch and I don't know that one can enjoy or be entertained by a film such as this. It's an extremely depressing film, about a man approaching middle age (Gene Hackman in one of his finest performances)...