William Laurance & Sons Marine Engineers (2015)

Admiration, anger, duty, love... and a 40 foot concrete boat. Saying goodbye isn't easy.

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A troubled father/son relationship is tested when an ex-merchant Navy engineer falls terminally ill and his eldest son returns home to take on his unfinished boat-building project. William Laurance & Sons Marine Engineers is an intimate and moving account of a brilliant man coming to terms with terminal illness, a family coping with imminent death and a son struggling with the psychological and emotional burden of growing up in a very large shadow.

Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 75 min
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Screenplay

Music: Dominic de Grande
Editing: Thomas Laurance, Joseph Gainsborough
Language: English
Original Language: en
More Films in Genre: Documentary

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What is William Laurance & Sons Marine Engineers about?
A troubled father/son relationship is tested when an ex-merchant Navy engineer falls terminally ill and his eldest son returns home to take on his unfinished boat-building project. William Laurance & Sons Marine Engineers is an intimate and moving account of a brilliant man coming to terms with terminal illness, a family coping with imminent death and a son struggling with the psychological and emotional burden of growing up in a very large shadow.
How long is William Laurance & Sons Marine Engineers?
William Laurance & Sons Marine Engineers has a runtime of 1h 15m (75 minutes).
What genre is William Laurance & Sons Marine Engineers?
William Laurance & Sons Marine Engineers is a Documentary film.