![]() Edward retells his version of his childhood. Will asks to know the truth about his father's life. Edward is weak and bedridden, but he and Will finally speak again. Bloom ( Jessica Lange), Edward's wife and Will's mother, who is bringing Edward home from the hospital to take care of him in what they believe to be his final days. Will and his pregnant wife, Josephine ( Marion Cotillard) travel to Ashton, Alabama, Will's hometown. Three years later, Will, now living in Paris, France, receives news that Edward has fallen ill with cancer, and that he might not have long to live. Edward denies his son's accusations and they end up not speaking to each other for three years. Will feels that his father tells these huge lies just to get attention and confronts him angrily about it. ![]() At Will's wedding, Will feels embarrassed by his father telling the guests an impossible-sounding story about the day of Will's birth, involving catching a giant catfish with his wedding ring as bait. HuggoĮdward Bloom ( Albert Finney), an entertaining and charismatic teller of tall tales, is a source of frustration to his only son, William ( Billy Crudup) who grew up believing his father's stories until it became obvious they were lies. The question is whether Will will be able to reconcile Edward's stories against his real life, either directly from Edward before he dies and/or from other sources, and thus allow Will to come to a new understanding of himself and his life, past, present and future. One of those stories from Edward's childhood - that he saw his own death in the glass eye of a witch - led to him embracing life since he would not have to fear death knowing when and how it would eventually come. On the brink of his own family life beginning, Will does not want to be the kind of father Edward has been to him. As a child when Edward was largely absent as a traveling salesman, Will believed those stories, but now realizes that he does not know his father, who, as he continues to tell these stories, he will never get to know unless Edward comes clean with the truth before he dies. Will's issue with his father is the fanciful tales Edward has told of his life all his life, not only to Will but the whole world. Although connected indirectly through Will's mother/Edward's wife, Sandra Bloom, Will has been estranged from his father for three years since his and Josephine's wedding. United Press International journalist Will Bloom and his French freelance photojournalist wife Josephine Bloom, who is pregnant with their first child, leave their Paris base to return to Will's hometown of Ashton, Alabama on the news that his father, Edward Bloom, stricken with cancer, will soon die, he being taken off chemotherapy treatment.
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