Hugh JackmanandLaura Dernplay parents whose son struggles to cope in the aftermath of their divorce inThe Son.
On Tuesday, Sony Pictures Classics released the full trailer forwriter-director Florian Zeller’s new film, which functions as a prequel to his 2021 releaseThe Father.
As the blended family attempts to help their son identify the roots of his mental health struggles, Peter “loses sight of how to hold onto Nicholas in the present” as he juggles work, family life and a disjointed relationship with his own father (Anthony Hopkins), according toan official synopsis.
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The movie’s trailer shows Nicholas move in with Peter and Kate, while continuing to skip school.
“I’ve tried to be there for you. I’ve tried to give you strength,” Peter tells his son in the trailer. “What’s going on? Are you on drugs?”
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“I don’t know what’s happening to me,” Nicholas tells Peter as he cries into his shoulder.
In one scene, Kate tells Peter that she feels “like a complete failure.”
“There used to be such joy in our family,” she says.
The trailer also teases Anthony Hopkins' reprisal of hisAcademy Award-winning role fromThe Fatherin the new film, in which he plays Peter’s own father.
“You came to tell me what a good dad you are?” Hopkins' character tells Peter in the trailer. “What do you want, applause?”
“It was more about trying to find ways for them to be secure enough, safe enough, to explore what they have inside, deep down, as a father, as a mother, as a son, as a daughter, just to be able to explore the emotion and to allow them to overwhelm the sense more than talking about anything else,” he said of preparing with the actors for their roles.
The Sonopens in New York City and Los Angeles on Nov. 25.
source: people.com
