THE SON Intro | TIFF 2022

“The team behind THE SON in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, and Anthony Hopkins star in The Father director Florian Zeller’s immersive drama about a family struggling to support a teenager in the throes of a mental health crisis. The 47th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 8 to 18, 2022. For more, visit . Academy Award–winning writer-director Florian Zeller’s follow-up to The Father is bold, incisive, and harrowing. Revisiting its predecessor’s focus on fraught family dynamics, The Son plunges us into a world of troubled legacies, where people try their best in the face of crisis. Peter (Hugh Jackman) and Beth (Vanessa Kirby) are euphoric after the birth of their first child. Their little family is about to unexpectedly expand, however, with the arrival of Nicholas (Zen McGrath), Peter’s adolescent son from his previous marriage to Kate (Laura Dern). Nicholas suffers