Fathers and Sons

perfectly and beautifully laid out with all the honesty and history -nothing is left out even his fathers drink driving depriving another family of their father-and ultimately as GC says to MG still have a father very said and very true. It shows the bond between Doug Ross and his friend mark green who travel across the American west - not knowing what they would find . the difference between the two men gets bigger with every mile> mark thinks he his badly done with his dad - but he does not understand the sacrifices his naval father has made . all Doug now has are various memories and at the centre of them is huge Cadillac. Doug and mark go to small church to see the funeral of the other victim of his dads "accident" - on leaving early he bumps into the priest and reluctantly tells the priest who he is and the priest , without judgement , remarks " You came still"

I see there's a Clooney hater out there. When Doug is told his father has died in a violent car accident, killing himself and others, he and the currently messed up Mark go to place where it happened.

They find he was living with a woman who died in the crash and they sift through the remnants of his life in this desolate Arizona desert area. In the process, they also make a journey to Mark's home and spend some time with his mother. Mark gains some insights into himself when he realizes that while he lived with a taciturn, seemingly indifferent father and a kind mother, he didn't really have it so bad. Mark is, in many ways, a pretty selfish man right now, reeling from his predicament. Doug shows this to him. It will be interesting to see what sorts of things he carries with him back to Chicago.

Or someone fitting the description. I never understood why this mediocre actor, became the breakout star of the show. Really, he barely did anything, was given the easiest storylines. And showed no emotions on the hardest parts. The fact that a whole episode revolved around his character's boring life issues, was the lowest point of the ER series. And a desperate move on NBC part, to profit from his popularity. His father died, but he's not the first ER character faced with loss. And his demons. So why making it a short film, with all the clichés inherent to the genre? Personally, I prefer Benton's centric episode next season. And think « Fathers and Sons » was too random and out on left field.