A 2022 Netflix documentary detailing the sweet final weeks between actor Robert Downey Jr. & his iconoclastic writer/director father Robert Downey Sr. Culling copious film footage from his career, especially his anti-establishment calling card Putney Swope, Downey excelled at making films on his own terms w/the possibility of gaining a lucrative payday an accidental plus. Through a series of conversations between the two, sometimes over Skype & such (due to COVID restrictions), the father/son try to get to the heart of senior's style which sometimes bled over into his personal life (as his wife, young Robert & his sister were corralled into his productions) but as senior's physical deterioration (due to his battle w/Parkinson's disease) slows his movements & excursions to a crawl, the family makes their goodbyes & acknowledge the mistakes senior made along the way. Having only seen Swope just recently I can't assess senior's body of work but his working method clearly poured over to junior's fearless acting style (his Oscar nominated performance in 2008's Tropic Thunder, in black face no less, is said to have been a tribute to senior's dubbing over the black lead in Swope) probably did senior proud.
