A Strange Idea of Entertainment: Conversations with Tom McLoughlin by Tom McLoughlin & Joseph Maddrey

Author:Tom McLoughlin & Joseph Maddrey [Maddrey, Joseph & McLoughlin, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BearManor Media
Published: 2014-05-26T22:00:00+00:00

I didn’t think about that. The Lies Boys Tell was based on a really interesting book about a father and son who don’t get along. The father decides he wants to die in the bed he was born in, and he needs to be driven across the country so he can accomplish this. He chooses his hippie/deadbeat son because they disagreed on so many things in life. On that road trip, they reconnect and both find the love that they need back in their life.

The book [by Lamar Herrin] was purchased as a vehicle for Kirk Douglas and Michael Douglas to do together. Kirk was attached and Michael was planning to do it, but then when the film was green-lighted Michael was already doing another movie. Kirk still wanted to do it, so the producers decided to look for another actor to play his son. They brought in Craig T. Nelson, and he wanted me as director. I came in, met with the producers and got the job. We had a script by Ernest Thompson, who had won the Oscar for On Golden Pond. It was a huge compliment to me that I was going to be able to direct a script from that caliber of writer, with these two wonderful actors.

Now there’s something I want to say about TV movies. A lot of people think that with TV movies you basically take whatever you’re given. I was blessed that after I did In a Child’s Name, I was able to choose from a number of projects that interested me — based on the way I was feeling at a particular time. I did go through a period of being estranged from my father. That was over by the time I made this movie, but I was still haunted by that period when I couldn’t really connect with him. So there are some things from my life that made their way into the film.

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