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A Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Directed by Lee Grant. With Kofi Annan, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Carter, Glenn Close. Kirk and Michael Douglas review their personal and professional lives, while showing their complex feelings toward each other.
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Incredibly funny and moving documentary takes a look at legend Kirk Douglas and his superstar son Michael. The documentary covers their personal lives ranging from tragedy in their lives to their film careers and it's a truly great chance at seeing the elder go into great discussion of his films and many lovers.
Aug 10, 2005 · Reviews. Aug 10, 2005 1:46pm PT. A Father … a Son … Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Well into his 80s, with speech slurred by a stroke, Kirk Douglas remains a magnetic onscreen presence as he and...
Feb 19, 2006 · The Movie. Director Lee Grant explores one of Hollywood's most legendary families with her poignant, occasionally maudlin and ever so slightly too laudatory documentary A Father ... A Son ... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Kirk Douglas, the blue-eyed, cleft-chinned matinee idol of Hollywood's Golden Age and his son, Michael, a movie star and ...
May 11, 2006 · Intimate and surprisingly candid, actress-filmmaker Lee Grant's HBO documentary chronicles two generations of Hollywood success in the Douglas dynasty—89-year-old Kirk and 61-year-old Michael—who willfully cooperate (along with most of their extended families) in this revealing film (warts-and-all, even though Grant is a close family friend).
2005. 1 hr 33 mins. Documentary. Watchlist. Where to Watch. The rich legacy of cinema legend Kirk Douglas is explored in Academy Award-winning actress and documentary-filmmaker Lee Grant's...
Instead, it is a truly unnerving snapshot of a stereotypically vicious Hollywood family, of father and son existing in at the weary armistice at the end of a decades-long conflict of mutual jealousy and insecurity that played out most hellishly with the other members of their family.
