Favorite Son

2008

Drama

2
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 224 224

Plot summary

A story of family, of dreams deferred, and of a final chance at redemption. Frustrated with his waning baseball career, David returns to his hometown and becomes obsessed with a local lovely, reaching out to her troubled son. When David is rejected, the townsfolk gossip about his relationship with the boy.

Director

Top cast

Pablo Schreiber as David Paxton
Matt Walton as Robert Mason
Ian Hyland as Henry (Young Boy #1)
Cornell Womack as Baseball Manager
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812.2 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
Not Rated
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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1.47 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 5 / 10

When "David" (Pablo Schreiber) returns to his hometown

When "David" (Pablo Schreiber) returns to his hometown after a decent minor-league baseball career, his welcome is less that warm. Keen to put down some roots, he meets and falls for "Joan" (Kellie Overbey) who has a teenage son "Ross" (Connor Paolo) - a lad who probably needs a father figure. "David" struggles to get any traction from the woman and when he starts to spend more time with the somewhat rebellious youth, people - including "Joan" - start to jump to some conclusions, especially when the two men go swimming in an out of the way lake. It's at this stage that the plot becomes a little more interesting; the melodrama ebbs a little and we are left with quite a menacing undercurrent of predatory behaviour that could leave the young man particularly vulnerable from an authority figure trusted by all. Sadly, though the film ends well enough, the vast majority of this is just a rather mundane rite-of-passage type thing with no stand out performances (except, perhaps for the young Paolo) and a dialogue that is very pedestrian. It does look good, but any half decent cinematographer ought to have been able to deliver that, given the beauty of their rural surroundings. It tries to deal with subjects well worth exposure, but this is all just too superficial to make any lasting contribution.
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