Rising Son
A factory foreman with 36 years experience becomes despondent after being laid off by his company which has just been taken over by a Japanese conglomerate and is unable to find any other work. Meanwhile, his son uses his father's unemployment as an excuse to drop out of the pre-med program his father pressured him to enter.
- Year: 1990
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: TV Movie, Drama
- Studio: Turner Pictures (I), Sarabande Productions
- Keyword: factory, japanese conglomerate, layoffs
- Director: John David Coles
- Cast: Matt Damon, Brian Dennehy, Piper Laurie, Graham Beckel, Emily Longstreth, Ving Rhames