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“Danny” is based on a true story about a father wanting his surname to remain his son’s last name. After two lower courts ruled in his favor, the Supreme Court reversed that decision. The Justice ruled in favor of the mother and allowed the boy’s last name to be changed to the step-fathers. Even an attempt to   use a hyphenated surname was denied.

Faced with no way out, Danny Syms takes the life of his ten year old son and then goes after the person he feels responsible for his actions – the Justice.

In an elaborate plan, Danny takes

 

the Justice hostage and through a series of masochistic exercises, makes the Justice a victim of his own insensitivity concerning a man’s legacy.

Perhaps Danny is crazy. Maybe he was pushed. But time and again we have seen what happens when the legal system

 
   
let’s us down.  When everything we've learned and experienced is called upon to help sustain the pressure of being alone, pushed aside…when all the hope and efforts go for nil.

Danny is every man who is being thrown in the lions den. He is every man who feels his life

  accomplishments can only be carried on by their sons.

Danny is an emotional, insightful and tragic view of fathers in America and their eager attempt at the survival of a traditional practice.

     
   

 

 

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