Posted on April 16, 2008 by Kathy McManus in All, Ethics, Films, Parenting Comments (1)
Father’s Day
Responsibility encompasses a lot of inevitable territory: family, friends, job, and country.
But should responsibility extend to forgiveness? Giving second chances? Seizing the moment before it’s lost forever?
Those questions come barreling at Helen—the main character in Father’s Day —when she’s forced to face an issue that has hurt and haunted her for years. With the present blocked by the past, she has to confront both—as well as her own responsibility in an unending emotional logjam.
We all have baggage in our lives. Father’s Day —explores how we haul it around, and challenges us to honor the responsibility of dealing with it.
Watch the film and follow Helen’s journey. But be prepared to be profoundly moved along the way.
Father’s Day was directed by Laurence Dunmore.
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Kudos to Liberty Mutual
My wife I are the Marriage and Family Life team leaders at our church and give a lot of time to couples preparing for marriage or remarriage as well as helping couples work through conflict. We see many people like Helen who are struggling with broken relationships, loneliness and anger. Our job is twofold- give hope and help to folks mired in past failures and to help healthy families stay that way.
This film does a great job presenting several principles of healthy relationships and the tragic results for us and our families when we ignore them. Thank you for spear heading this project that calls our society back to a biblical view of right and wrong as defined by our Creator who has endowed us with certain “unalienable rights”. With rights comes responsibility as this project points out. Our choices will either produce opportunities or consequences. For some time now America has been heading down a path that has producing more consequences than opportunities. It’s time to change direction. I’m proud of my company who has clearly called America to that challenge through ‘The Responsibility Project”. I’ll be enthusiastically promoting this web site.
Carl Kindstedt
Liberty Mutual employee