Plot: Depressed Nicholas, the estranged 17-year-old son of busy Manhattan lawyer Peter Miller, has been skipping school for weeks. And then, Peter's troubled ex-wife Kate shows up at his door. As the former couple discuss Nicholas' alarming behaviour, rocky parent/child relations disrupt the newfound domestic bliss of often-absent Peter and his second wife, Beth. But guilt-ridden Peter is convinced he can help. Instead, as tries to handle his teenage son's crippling anxiety, suddenly, old patterns emerge. They say like father, like son. Is Peter doomed to make the same mistakes??
Alternative Plot: A cautionary tale that follows a family as it struggles to reunite after falling apart. THE SON centers on Peter (Hugh Jackman), whose hectic life with his infant and new partner Beth (Vanessa Kirby) is upended when his ex-wife Kate (Laura Dern) appears at his door to discuss their son Nicholas (Zen McGrath), who is now a teenager. The young man has been missing school for months and is deeply troubled. Peter strives to take care of Nicholas as he would have wanted his own father (Anthony Hopkins) to have taken care of him while juggling his and Beth's new son, and at work an offer of a dream position in Washington. However, by reaching for the past to correct its mistakes, he loses sight of how to hold onto Nicholas in the present.
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