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Release Date: 2012

Cast: Michael Welch, Percy Daggs III, April Grace, Nick Cannon, Melonie Diaz, Chi McBride, Erica Gluck, Sean Marquette, Tom Sizemore, Jay Hernandez

Categories: Movies, Slice Of Life Story, Drama Film, Indie, Romance Film, War Film

American Son is a drama film directed by Neil Abramson and starring Nick Cannon, Melonie Diaz and Matt O'Leary. The film follows a young man, Mike (Cannon) as he returns home to Bakersfield, California following United States Marine Corps Recruit Training. Mike faces telling his friends and family of his deployment to Iraq while dealing with a troublesome home life. It competed in the Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. A 19-year-old who has enlisted to go to Iraq falls in love with a girl, but is afraid that he might not come back alive. Young marine Mike (Nick... MORE

American Son is a drama film directed by Neil Abramson and starring Nick Cannon, Melonie Diaz and Matt O'Leary. The film follows a young man, Mike (Cannon) as he returns home to Bakersfield, California following United States Marine Corps Recruit Training. Mike faces telling his friends and family of his deployment to Iraq while dealing with a troublesome home life. It competed in the Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. A 19-year-old who has enlisted to go to Iraq falls in love with a girl, but is afraid that he might not come back alive. Young marine Mike (Nick Cannon) is shipping out for uncertain fortunes in Iraq, and has 4 days left to visit back home in Bakersfield California. The story is about his parting relationships with his best friend Jake (Matt O'Leary), a new girlfriend Christina (Melonie Diaz), his mother Donna (April Grace), and father Eddie (Chi McBride) over these 96 hours. None of these people initially knows he's shipping out, and each of the Significant Other's reactions to this news, one-on-one with Mike, make up the bulk of the story. The story also gives some insight into the how/why reasons Mike ever even enlisted as a Marine rifleman LESS