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Pop & Me |
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Features:
- Color
- Closed-captioned
- Dolby
Description:
This video documentation of a father-son journey around the world got media play for its unusual premise. Dad Richard Roe decided to dispose of his life savings to re-create a trip he took with his family back when he was happily married with three young sons. His middle son sees the chance for a film and talks Pop into a free ride. The pair trek from the Bronx to Italy, Soweto, New Delhi, New Zealand, and back in 190 days of tearful revelations and almost constant carping. In between their battles, the duo interview international father-son teams. Most describe mutually supportive relationships, but Julian Lennon makes a brief appearance criticizing his father's abandonment style of parenting and a South African father speaks frankly of his inadequacies in raising his brain-damaged son. Meanwhile Pop and son bicker about purse strings, until the elder Roe finally hands them over. Curiously, most of the father's alleged controlling behavior happens off-camera, so the director son allows himself to come off as whiny for much of the 90 minutes. He compensates, however, with the father-son bungee jump at the end. --Kimberly Heinrichs
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