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The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

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Genre
  
Animation, Short, Biography

Director
  
John Canemaker

Program creator
  
Cinemax

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Duration
  

Running time
  
28 minutes

Music director
  
Ron Sadoff

The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation movie poster
Writer
  
John Canemaker (script), Joseph Kennedy (script), Peggy Stern (script)

Initial release
  
January 5, 2005 (Museum of Modern Art)

Cast
  
John Turturro, Eli Wallach, Peter Schlosser, Mary Bringle, Larry White

Similar movies
  
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2005), Badgered (2005), Prison Train (1938), The Green Promise (1949), The Danish Poet (2006)

The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation is a 2005 animated short film.

On March 5, 2006 it won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Filmmakers John Canemaker and Peggy Stern utilize a combination of animation, home movies and photos to present an imagined conversation between a son (voiced by John Turturro) and an abusive, late father (voiced by Eli Wallach).

An animated documentary that explores the terrain of father/son relationships, as seen through Canemaker's own turbulent relationship with his father.

References

The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation Wikipedia
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation IMDb The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation themoviedb.org