My Father and My Son
2005
· Movie
· 112 min
B
MEANRANK
80/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #697
- IMDb #168
- Rotten Tomatoes #54
- Letterboxd #526
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #276
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #60
Every rating
46–96
out of 100
Split
Lowest is AlloCiné on 46, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 96. Critics average 96, everyone else 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A left-wing journalist whose wife died while giving birth to his son during a military coup returns to his family's farm. Estranged from his father for turning his back on the family and wasting his life with political activism instead, he tries to reconnect with him so that his son will have a place to live as his health is deteriorating due to the extensive torture he had to endure.
Details
- Director
- Çağan Irmak
- Writer
- Çağan Irmak
- Studio
- Avşar Film
- Released
- 18 November 2005
- Country
- Turkey
- Language
- Turkish
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Box office
- $4.2M
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