Like Father Like Son
Seen it?2005 | 137 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With almost no lasting buzz and soft box office, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Right up the alley of anyone who likes to solve it before the characters do and anyone nostalgic for their awkward years. It plays fair with the clues, so you can play along. If you loved Cape Fear, start here. It gets the awkwardness and the high stakes of being young.
- The mood
- Tense, dark and gritty.
- The pace
- Quiet, then quietly devastating, at 2 hr 17 min.
- What might put you off
- Skip it if you like your heroes clean-cut.
Life for Dee Stanton is improving at every turn. Her legal career is blossoming and her boyfriend Dominic unexpectedly proposes to her. Things were very different 11 years ago when her husband Paul was jailed for the brutal murders of four girls and Dee was hounded from her home. Dee has kept all this a secret from her 15-year-old son Jamie. Now he has discovered the truth about his father and demands to see him.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 5K people sought it out in the past year
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Cast & crew
Directed by Nicholas Laughland
- Robson GreenDominic Milne
- Jemma RedgraveDee Stanton
- Georgia TennantMorag Tait
- Phil DavisPaul Barker
- Francesca FowlerBethan Milne
- Kenneth ColleyRawsthorne
- Pippa HaywoodMrs. Sutton
- Tara FitzgeraldD.I. Harkness
- James BarriscaleP.C. Barriscale
- Somerset PrewJamie Stanton