Story of a child . . . and his son

With Hollywood’s films in the past 10 years marching steadily on the path toward vulgarity, filthy language, nudity and openly displayed sexual relations, someone, I’m sure, will point to this film, “That’s My Boy,” as having taken one of the major leaps forward.

I am hazarding a guess that the one pointing the finger will not do it with pride or praise.
The film’s setting is Boston, one of America’s most forward moving capitals, in the State of Massachusetts, in New England Just north of New York.

There is now, and has always been, virulent competition between Boston and New York as to which is, in fact, America’s most forward moving city.
At the film’s opening, Han Solo Berger, at age 13, and in the 7th grade, is having a nothing left out sexual relationship with his (gorgeous) mathematics teacher.
Adam Sandler, New York born, now age 46, plays the adult Han Solo Berger, now in the present. He trails a long history of participation in films of questionable taste, and, as the producer of this film the man who puts up the money it is to him that we must look for the film’s willingness to violate current standards of propriety.

There are two very serious consequences of this teacher student relationship. A son, Donny Berger (Andy Samberg) is born; teacher is given a 30-year prison sentence for her behaviour with a student. (And this is a comedy).

Now we jump to the present, with Donny, now a successful and wealthy adult, and about to be married, not having a clue as to his origins.
Because Han Solo (Sandler), the man he knows nothing about, is in desperate need of money to pay off some gangsters and remain alive, there is going to be an unknown and unwanted extra member of the wedding party. Of particular note in the film are the later scenes, as Donny in the days before his wedding is given some dubiously welcome information about the parentage he had always wondered about.

In fact, he is taken to the penitentiary by his now divulged father, and there meets his mother, father’s former maths teacher.
Of particular interest, I suspect, the role of incarcerated mom is played by the former mega-star, Susan Sarandon, now aged 67 and still looking gorgeous. As the Latin expression Quo vadis? (Where are we going?) has it, see this film and get on the road.