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      • In The Son, Hugh Jackman plays Peter, a man struggling with parenting his teenage boy, while attempting to break the chains of generational trauma he inherited from his own father, played by Anthony Hopkins.
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    The Son: Directed by Florian Zeller. With Vanessa Kirby, Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Shin-Fei Chen. Peter has his busy life with new partner Beth and their baby thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas.

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    • Drama
    • Florian Zeller
    • 2023-01-20
  3. Sep 7, 2022 · Peter wants his son to feel respected. In the man-to-almost-man conversation that follows, Nicholas winds up asking whether he can live with his dad, which sets the rest of “The Son” in...

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    • Zen McGrath as Nicholas
    • Laura Dern as Kate
    • Vanessa Kirby as Beth
    • Anthony Hopkins as Peter's Father

    Hugh Jackman will play Peter, who is named Pierre in Zeller's original play, titled in his native French language as Le Fils(2018). Peter is the father (so to speak) of the titular "son" character, Nicholas. His son's current difficult spot in life could very well be partly because of Peter's estranged relationship with his former wife, Kate, with ...

    Though he's playing a native to the United States, Zen McGrathis also an Australian just like his co-star Hugh Jackman. Since his parents' divorce, Nicholas has been completely and utterly aimless in his life. Having lived with his mother for most of that time, the effects of depression have slowly but surely made their way into Nicholas's daily li...

    Except for relative newcomer McGrath, every other major cast member in the film has either won or been nominated for an Academy Award. In Laura Dern's case, it is the former as she won a Best Supporting Actress award for Marriage Story (2018). McGrath's Nicholas is also the only character whose name hasn't been changed from the original play, as Ka...

    Named Sofia in the original play, Beth is somewhat inadvertently thrown into a high-stress situation. She only just recently became a mother to an infant child, and now she has to assist her partner Peter in raising a teenage boy with whom she doesn't have any connection. It's something that she might have expected to deal with when her own child t...

    Since his work in Zeller's The Fatherearned him his second Academy Award, it makes sense that Hopkins would return for the follow-up, but again, he will not be playing the same character he played in the celebrated predecessor. Hopkins's character here, who almost certainly was deliberately not given a name, likely represents a version of Peter tha...

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  4. Jan 19, 2023 · He returns to Zeller’s disappointing “The Son” for a brief, bracing scene to let us know that the title character in this film is not the troubled teenager but the man who is both father and son. That man is Peter, played here by Hugh Jackman.

  5. Sep 7, 2022 · Peter has settled into a contented life in Brooklyn with his new partner, Beth (Vanessa Kirby), and their infant son when ex-wife Kate (Laura Dern) turns up at the door distraught about their...

  6. Nov 7, 2022 · Jackman plays Peter in "The Son," a follow-up to writer/director Florian Zeller's 2020 film "The Father." The movie centers on Peter, whose new life with his partner Beth (Vanessa Kirby) and their new son is turned upside-down when his ex-wife Kate (Laura Dern) shows up at his door with news that their son Nicholas (Zen McGrather) is struggling.