But when Nicholas attempts suicide and is placed in an in-patient treatment facility, Peter belatedly grasps his responsibility for the situation.

A week later, Peter and Kate bring Nicholas home after feeling sympathetic to his pleas that he regrets the decisions that led to the facility.

During an interview via Zoom after the 93rd Academy Awards nominations were announced, director/writer Florian Zeller revealed to Deadline Hollywood that he was finishing up an adaptation of one of his plays titled The Son.

It was reported Anthony Hopkins and Zen McGrath had also joined the cast, the former of whom is reuniting with Zeller after working on The Father (2020), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

[8] In July 2021, Sony Pictures Classics acquired distribution rights to the film for the United States, Southeast Asia, China, India, Eastern Europe and Turkey.

[9] STX Entertainment claimed the distribution rights for the United Kingdom, the Benelux, Italy, Scandinavia and Iceland that same month.

The website's consensus reads: "Despite reliably solid work from Laura Dern and Hugh Jackman, The Son remains mired in off-puttingly aggressive melodrama.