Tony
Posted on 10/30/2008 by Kathy McManus
Tony is executive produced by Grant Heslov and George Clooney. Actor Tate Donovan stars as Michael, a relentlessly responsible father. But the Tony at issue isn’t his son. It’s his son’s teddy bear. Or more vexingly, his 6-year-old son’s lost teddy bear. And therein lies the crisis, the challenge, and the question: Can you ever be too responsible? Read full article


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That was me!
This is totally what my husband and I went through the night we moved to St. Louis and stayed in a hotel before moving into our house. My 7 year old daughter’s teddy bear, “kitty”, was left in the room when we checked out. A day and numerous phone calls later, we were told it was in a lost and found closet. We drove back to the hotel and were then told the teddy bear had been thrown out. My husband and I spent a few hours inside the giant hotel dumpster looking for it. Let me tell you, it was way messier and grosser than in this short movie! Needless to say we didn’t find her, but a week later we received a phone call that “kitty” had mysteriously reappeared in the lost and found closet. The managers had told the staff what we did to try and find her and I think someone who had taken her felt guilty enough and returned her. A happy ending is the most wonderful miracle of them all!! Three years later and she still has “kitty”.
Kristey Cohen | 1 year, 4 months ago
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Actors
Who is the actor that plays the plant manager? I have seen him, as well as the cab driver in other films.
Great film. It shows true altruism in the sacrifices we make for our children.
kristin | 1 year, 4 months ago
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What a waste of time
I cannot believe what a ridiculous waste of time this video was. Here’s the lesson. Bust your ### and involve a bunch of strangers (yeah that would really happen) to do something nice for your sick child and have him be not even grateful. What a crock. I don’t see what this has to do with responsibility at all. This is why you should always have 2 of everything your child loves. If he loses one, break out the back-up. Or better yet, teach your kid a lesson. If you don’t pay attention to your personal property it will get lost and you will have to get over it. You notice that the two previous examples were that the children lost their blanket and action figure and were sad. Did it kill the child? No, it taught them a lesson to keep track of their stuff. It is their responsibility to hold onto their favorite items. It is not the responsibility of the parent to waste hours of his and everyone elses to go on a wild goose chase. Plus, there is no way a cop in LA is going to not give a ticket and instead be extremely helpful. LA cops are notorious for writing frivolous tickets as a means to generate revenue. This movie was terrible. Don’t watch it. You’ll never get those 13 minutes back.
Defender of Logic | 1 year, 4 months ago
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Wasted minutes
It’s obvious that you either don’t have children or have taught your children differently than most parents.
If you had been paying attention during those 13 minutes, you would have realized that the hotel cleaning staff mistakenly threw the bear away. It wasn’t the child’s fault at all.
Furthermore, as you can see from most of the people commenting on this short video, we’d bend over backwards for our kids, whether sick or not to make them happy.
As Woopie Goldberg once said, “Why can’t we make the world Disneyland for our children?”
I, for one, would do anything to make my child happy and I’d rather go on a wild goose chase, in order to teach my child that there are people, including myself, in this world that would do anything to make a child happy again, than to teach them that life is full of disappointments.
That is the true lesson.
A Concerned One | 1 year, 4 months ago
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very good
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henry geovanny melara figueroa | 1 year, 4 months ago
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Thanks Liberty
Defender of Logic -> I hope you aren’t a father. If you are, I hope your children find a way to forgive you when they are older.
Liberty Mutual – You earned yourself a potential customer. Thank you so much for providing a venue for this movie.
Phillip Barnhart | 1 year, 4 months ago
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I am so touched.
Oh my gosh. I think everyone of those people who helped are so brave. I want to write them all thank you letters!!! As a mom I know what it is like to have your child hurt. That is so brave of the boy to agree to be filmed. How did they get such good footage? Whoever was holding the camera should have helped dig through the garbage! I would have!
Tony | 1 year, 4 months ago
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Did all these people watch the same film I did?
Ok the positives: the film was well done and the acting was fairly good. It was directed well and shot well. The bad: WHO cares, they never gave you even enough story line to care about the boy. Yes, he was bald. Yes, he had cancer – was he returning from a vacation? From a trip for chemo? Would anyone in their right mind spend $1000.00 in airfare and expenses and not instead track down the manufacturer of the bear and get it replaced?
I love films that move me. This did nothing, especially since you never saw the people’s reaction to the father’s touching story because you never heard it. You want to see touching – something that will tug at your heartstrings. This was a waste of 20 minutes… sorry just my opinion.
Steve Knows | 1 year, 4 months ago
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alright with me
really really liked it
samantha e willis | 1 year, 4 months ago
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film of misplaced values
Nice tear jerker LM, but maybe it is accomplishing your goals. Unfortunately, Tony reinforces perceptions of less than admirable qualities of America today, extravagant wastefulness and over indulgent misplaced priorities of “caring” affluent American parents. Imagine how Tony would have looked had the lost teddy ended up at any dump site of a major third world city where hundreds or thousands of children live rather than a LA dump transfer station. Two feature films, Pay It Forward and AI tell substantive moving stories with some similar themes.
Did LM search your own insurance claim files for moving story lines? Surely, you would found far more powerful and admirable stories than this one. Leaders from the G20 have come to America seeking solutions to a worldwide financial crisis largely created here that is shattering millions of families. Do we need videos of escapist feel good over indulgence or stories that better reflect core human values? So to answer your discussion question, how far would you/ strangers go to help someone elses child, kids in all of our neighborhoods have far greater needs than finding lost teddies. What about the lost parents obsessed with trading up for houses, cars and spouses rather than spending more time with their families?
j lemmon | 1 year, 4 months ago
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