My Father's Shadow
Movie • 2025 • Drama
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Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city's magnitude and their father's daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.
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There's discussion of someone having drowned in the past.
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No, but the swimming scene could be triggering for this if you're very sensitive to it.
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It is heavily implied that a man is having an affair with the woman he is talking to.
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It becomes apparent by the end of the movie that the father has been terminally ill the whole time, with some clues given earlier.
It becomes apparent by the end of the movie that the father has been terminally ill the whole time, with some clues given earlier.
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A few people have one or two drinks and a child reports having had a sip of beer.
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At least three occasions.
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There are a couple brief shots with babies in them.
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A kid is standing in the bathtub bathing with a bucket. You see only his head and hands.
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There is some smoke from fires shown in a couple scenes, but it's pretty brief and the camera isn't immersed in the smoke.
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But some hungry stray dogs are shown.
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Early in the movie, the skeletal corpse of an animal (maybe a dog) is shown. Later, there's a dead whale on the beach.
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There is a lot of gunfire noise from offscreen.
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