gilmour, david

David Gilmour traces his unconventional decision to let his son, Jesse, drop out of high school as long as they watched three movies of David's choosing together each week. David discusses how, as the films got them talking about Jesse's interior life, Jesse would come to make a decision that surprised even his father.

A memoir in which author David Gilmour tells about his experiences after he responded to what he saw as a disenchantment with learning in his teenage son by offering to let the fifteen-year-old drop out of school on the condition that he watch three movies a week--chosen by Gilmour, opening the doors of communication between father and son.