Affliction

"This film broke my heart. A tragic reminder of how many people spend their entire lives trying to overcome the damage done to them by their abusive parents. "Facts do not make history. Our stories, Wade's and mine, describe the lives of the boys and men for thousands of years. Boys who were beaten by their fathers, whose capacity for love and trust was crippled almost at birth, men whose best hope for connection with other human beings lay in detachment, as if life were over. It's how we keep from destroying in turn our own children and terrorizing the women who have the misfortune to love us. How we absent ourselves from the tradition of male violence. How we decline the seduction of revenge.""

"Forgot how much I like Nick Nolte."

"One of Nick Nolte's best, in my opinion. "