The bizarre real-life story behind the new Elijah Wood movie Come to Daddy
plays an entertainment industry wannabe named Norval Greenwood who reunites with the father he never really knew for the first time in three decades at a remote cabin in Oregon.
“He has been estranged from his father for 30 years,” the actor tells EW. “Gets a letter in the mail from his father asking him to come see him. We pick up at him having arrived at the house to see his father and reunite with this person he doesn’t know. Then Stephen McHattie, as his dad, opens the door, and they start to have a reconnection of that relationship, but it doesn’t go quite the way that Norval thinks it was going to go. And things take a turn for the worse.
“Dad drops dead in front of me [and] I spend a week with his corpse in a coffin in his house alone at night,” the director recalls. “During the day, strangers come, pay their respects, and I start thinking that maybe there’s an alternate history to my father. The whole process was cathartic and beautiful and creepy and sad.
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