If you’re not reduced to a puddle of tears when Ray plays catch with the ghost of his estranged dad during the movie’s emotional climax, you might want to check your pulse.ĭustin Hoffman’s problematic behind-the-scenes antics during the making of Kramer vs. Eventually we learn he’s tortured by the fact that he didn’t have a chance to mend his fractured relationship with his baseball-loving father before the elder Kinsella passed away. Field of Dreams is of course, on its surface, a movie about baseball and one man’s quest to turn his Iowa cornfields into some sort of magical purgatory where Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other long-dead members of the 1919 “Black Sox” can show up and play, but it’s really about regret and redemption - two things just about anyone can relate to, especially our protagonist Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner). If we’re going to round up the best father-son movies of all time, we obviously have to start with this classic, which has been making dads across America - even the most stoic, emotionally repressed ones - weep for three decades now. Whether you’re looking to celebrate a loving bond, remind yourself that at least your dad wasn’t that bad or simply have a good cry while you reminisce about having a catch with your old man, you’ll find something to enjoy. They’re all excellent movies, however we’ve rounded up the best below. Some have heartwarming, happy endings, while others are devastating looks at the negative impact that a bad male role model can have on a boy’s life. But these complicated, problematic relationships do, admittedly, make for fascinating films.

Of course, these are all awful, systemic problems that need to be addressed sooner rather than later if society stands any chance at achieving some sort of healthy masculinity. How are you supposed to boss someone around when they’re now big enough to kick your ass?

Too often, boys are intimidated by their fathers, until they go through puberty, outgrow them and maybe develop an Oedipus complex - at which point, the dads may start to grow quietly resentful of their kids. Part of that might be for added dramatic effect, of course, but it also likely has something to do with things like generational trauma and toxic masculinity. More often than not, the paternal relationships depicted are complicated, fraught or downright abusive. For as long as people have been making them, there have been countless movies and TV shows centered around fathers and sons.

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