“克林特·伊斯特伍德”导演的《天涯父子情》是一部非常好的电影,加上克林特·伊斯特伍德,凯勒·伊斯特伍德,约翰·麦克因泰,亚历克莎·克宁,弗娜·布鲁姆等演员的加盟,使这部原本平淡的剧本焕发出新的光彩,赢得了观众的高度评价。
As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he's broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid "growing up to be a cotton picker all my life," begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant.