num_pages: 264
description: It was a bad time for David Gilmour. His beloved unhappy fifteen-year-old son was flunking every subject at school. So David offered an unconventional deal: his son could drop out - not work not pay rent - but there was a catch. He had to watch three movies a week of his father's choosing.Together they formed the Film Club: week by week side by side father and son watched the world's best (and occasionally worst) films - from True Romance to Chungking Express A Hard Day's Night to Rosemary's Baby from La Dolce Vita to Showgirls. The films got them talking - about girls music heartbreak work drugs love friendship - and opened doors to a teenager's interior life at a time when a parent is normally shut out. As the Film Club moved toward its bittersweet (but inevitable) conclusion the young man made a decision that surprised even his father...
language: English
title: The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
publisher: Dundurn