While my heroes have always been teachers, I found this film to be interesting.
Supposedly, father Ben Johnson is supposed to be failing, but he is anything but. Son Scott Glenn comes home from a rodeo injured and finds that his father is in a nursing home. Sophia of The Golden Girls would have found another Shady Pines.
Glenn takes his father out and the two go back to their house. Of course, there is sister played by Tess Harper and her greedy husband, Gary Busey, looking to commit Johnson so that they can sell off the land.
We could have really had a good story here if it became one of a competency issue. Instead, we are subjected to the old rodeo theme of winning that prize money. Naturally, Johnson is suddenly well enough to encourage his son to victory.
Am still trying to figure out why Mickey Rooney appeared briefly as Johnson's resident friend in the nursing home.
Supposedly, father Ben Johnson is supposed to be failing, but he is anything but. Son Scott Glenn comes home from a rodeo injured and finds that his father is in a nursing home. Sophia of The Golden Girls would have found another Shady Pines.
Glenn takes his father out and the two go back to their house. Of course, there is sister played by Tess Harper and her greedy husband, Gary Busey, looking to commit Johnson so that they can sell off the land.
We could have really had a good story here if it became one of a competency issue. Instead, we are subjected to the old rodeo theme of winning that prize money. Naturally, Johnson is suddenly well enough to encourage his son to victory.
Am still trying to figure out why Mickey Rooney appeared briefly as Johnson's resident friend in the nursing home.