# Looking for the name of a movie - father shoots daughter by accident **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [November 14, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie-father-shoots-daughter-by-accident/1010255 "2024-11-14T16:41:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie-father-shoots-daughter-by-accident/1010255/1 "2024-11-14T16:41:52Z")
Maybe early 2000’s. In the theaters, not a TV movie. A drama, not a crime thriller or shoot 'em up. As I recall, the plot is: daughter gets assaulted, father buys a gun for the daughter’s protection, everyone is paranoid, and father ends up shooting the daughter (on the stairs, I think) with the gun, thinking it was an intruder. Maybe the whole movie was a flashback. Father is a well-know actor, reminds me of Caroll O’conner. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie-father-shoots-daughter-by-accident/1010255/2 "2024-11-14T16:46:32Z")
I assume it’s not **In The Bedroom** (which shares a few plot points); just want to get that one out of the way first. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie-father-shoots-daughter-by-accident/1010255/3 "2024-11-14T16:49:09Z")
No, that’s not it, thank you. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie-father-shoots-daughter-by-accident/1010255/4 "2024-11-14T16:51:34Z")
AMERICAN GUN, with James Coburn? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie-father-shoots-daughter-by-accident/1010255/5 "2024-11-14T16:58:19Z")
That might be it! I clearly have forgotten the entire content of the movie, and only remembered the twist ending, but it does fit. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie-father-shoots-daughter-by-accident/1010255/6 "2024-11-14T19:18:30Z")
The thread title made me think of **Joe** (1970). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie-father-shoots-daughter-by-accident/1010255/7 "2024-11-14T20:02:45Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > The thread title made me think of **Joe** Yeah, me, too (except most of the details are wrong, including who did the shooting). ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie-father-shoots-daughter-by-accident/1010255/8 "2024-11-14T20:05:19Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > The thread title made me think of **Joe** (1970). Whereas my mind went straight to the original version of **Meet the Parents**. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie-father-shoots-daughter-by-accident/1010255/9 "2024-11-14T20:35:57Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Father is a well-know actor, reminds me of Caroll O’conner. Brian Dennehy? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie-father-shoots-daughter-by-accident/1010255/10 "2024-11-14T20:37:04Z")
Funny, I was thinking the same thing. But, I’m pretty sure that it was “American Gun” with James Coburn. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie-father-shoots-daughter-by-accident/1010255/11 "2024-11-14T20:43:37Z")
Reminds me (not closely) of a 2018 short film nominated for an Oscar, called “Skin.” It’s a very intense film, and I recommend it for anyone with a fairly high tolerance for intimate, personal violence. In the end, the son of a skinhead shoots his father in the back because he thinks he is a black home invader (note: that is not the personal violence part I was warning about). ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie-father-shoots-daughter-by-accident/1010255/12 "2024-11-15T13:17:42Z")
huh! Did you know there are TWO movies from the aughts called _American Gun_? One with an old James Coburn (2002) and one with an old Donald Sutherland (2005). I think the OP is looking for the first. IMDB reviewers are short on plot spoilers, but it sure does sound like it.