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The Good Father

5.4 90 mins Drama   1985
Greenpoint Films   Film4 Productions  
Director(s): Mike Newell

Release Date: 01 Fri, Nov 1985

Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides to help his friend gain custody of his son...in any way that they can devise, including using a sleazeball lawyer. But while Bill feels that feminism has robbed him of his family, he begins to be appalled at what he and Roger have done.

Casts of The Good Father

Anthony Hopkins

as Bill Hooper

Jim Broadbent

as Roger Miles

Harriet Walter

as Emmy Hooper

Frances Viner

as Cheryl Langford

Simon Callow

as Mark Varda

Miriam Margolyes

as Jane Powell

Joanne Whalley

as Mary Hall

Michael Byrne

as Leonard Scruby

Stephen Fry

as Creighton

Clifford Rose

as Judge

Jennie Stoller

as Bill's friend

Johanna Kirby

as Bill's friend

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