My Father the Genius (2002)

When estranged father dreamer and visionary architect Glen Howard Small bequeaths his daughter the task of writing his biography she answers instead with a provocative film about his precarious career and thorny private life At 31 Glen Small founder and faculty member of the internationally acclaimed Southern California Institute of Architecture was a rising star At 61 he can barely pay his bills In the tradition of My Architect and The Royal Tenenbaums filmmaker Lucia Small digs deep to explore the delicate tension between her fathers obligations to family and his lifelong passion to save the world through architecture