Who would send his dad to jail for 25 years?? I would go to jail for 3 years for him, I agree Nicholson may have been a shmuck of a dad, but he gave him everything he had, the job, the money, the life. I disliked the movie for the sole reason.
shareSeriously? I think that the father is the prick here, putting a decision like that on his son. "If you don't take the fall for me, I'm going to jail for 25 years, and you'd only have to do 3." Well, maybe he should have though of that before he bribed an Egyptian and did the shady things he did.
'Giving his son everything he had' doesn't really track for me as a free pass to break the law, have the company get caught, and not have the balls to take the fall, instead letting his son take the blame.
Just my two cents... You must love your father a whole hell of a lot, because I sure wouldn't be willing to do 3 years in jail for mine in this situation.