father-son relationship

Mortimer and his father are in for a big surprise after Mortimer packs a lunch for his dad and helps him get ready for work.

When his parents decide to leave their home in Newfoundland because his father can no longer work as a cod fisherman, eleven-year-old Duncan tries to find a way for them to stay.

Eleven-year-old Philip Noble finds himself with a dilemma on his hands when he is contacted by a ghost that claims to be his father and tells him he must kill his Uncle Alan--his dad's supposed killer--sometime within the next ten weeks or doom dear old dad to an eternity of unrest.

Australian youth Peter Sinclair, living on the run with his father who claims he is being pursued by a secret organization, comes to the realization that his dad is mentally ill and must have treatment if they are ever to have a normal life together.

Fifteen-year-old Derek, son of the recently deceased American ambassador to the Soviet Union, decides to smuggle a Russian dissident's daughter out of Moscow and achieves a greater understanding of himself, his principles, and his deep-seated feelings for his father.

Returning to California for the summer to help train and race thoroughbreds, thirteen-year-old Graham tries to cope with the changes in his relationships with his dad and best friend Leslie and become an individual in his own right.

As he works with his father making moonshine in the remote hills of Virginia during Prohibition, twelve-year-old Tom learns about hard work and honesty.

With the help of some unusual characters in a small California town, Danny struggles to live on his own while his father, a Vietnam veteran, is in the VA hospital.

After the divorce of his parents, Dex Pratt moves in with his father, who is now wheelchair-bound after failing to commit suicide. When Dex's father, once a lawyer who defended marijuana growers, begins growing the drugs as well, Dex starts smoking it and enters a surreal world where he loses touch with what is reality and what is imagined.