Everybody's fine-relationships
Widower Frank Goode has had to make plenty of adjustments since losing his wife about a year ago, but maybe the hardest one has been maintaining his relationships with his four adult children. It would seem that Frank's wife was the glue who held the family together, and when all of the kids bug out on a planned visit home, he decides to set out on a trip around the country, dropping in on each of their lives in order to help put things right. But their relationships aren't as simple as they once seemed.this links to my play as it shows the struggle of relationship of a father and his children. Their relationship is getting strained and the father expects too much of the children.
My play shows the father and daughter who argue over what she will do with her life when she gets pregnant. He wants her to have a career and education. They part on bad terms and they do not speak because the father cannot accept her choice to have the child.
He is shown as expecting too much of her which is similar to this film.
Characterisation
The subject matter of fractured families is hardly original territory. That's perhaps because these days family bonds seem to be more frail than they once were. In Everybody's Fine those bonds have been strained by the geographical distance between the siblings and their father.
INTERVIEWER
Are you so at home being a father?
ROBERT DE NIRO
Well, I'm not, I'm not at home. I think, you know, it's tough. Eh, there are good moments and not so good moments. Anybody who has children knows that. So, it's just life. I, I needless to say, but as long as you have children, there's going to be a problem. You know, that's something.http://www.femail.com.au/robert-de-niro-everybodys-fine-interview.htm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780511/
The father in this film is very similar to the one in my play becuase the relationship with his children is strained and it is the same as the father in my play. they both struggle to find common ground to work on in thier relationship with their children.
the confilct within father/daughter relationships is common and this film and Robert De Niro's character shows this. it helped to influence the character of Jade's father in my play.
Robert De Niro Everybody's Fine Interview
INTERVIEWERAre you so at home being a father?
ROBERT DE NIRO
Well, I'm not, I'm not at home. I think, you know, it's tough. Eh, there are good moments and not so good moments. Anybody who has children knows that. So, it's just life. I, I needless to say, but as long as you have children, there's going to be a problem. You know, that's something.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780511/
The father in this film is very similar to the one in my play becuase the relationship with his children is strained and it is the same as the father in my play. they both struggle to find common ground to work on in thier relationship with their children.
the confilct within father/daughter relationships is common and this film and Robert De Niro's character shows this. it helped to influence the character of Jade's father in my play.
