Calogero, portrayed as a teenager by Mr. Brancato, must choose between the quick thrills and allure of the gangsters and the workaday world of his father, a bus driver.

There is no letup until you get to the fixed world of Charlie's father, where the stationary camera gives you a sense of immutable values".

You could be comfortable with a lower standard in that older world of my father and grandfather's time.

Like Michael Corleone in "The Godfather," Peter is unable to escape the violent world of his father.

There is no way of accommodating Elektra's insistence on vindication for the rightful world order, the world of her father.

I thought the world of my father.

And this Queen Elizabeth 2 had been the world of his father, the world from which he, caught in an act of thievery, had been cast out.

"People down there thought the world of my father," he said.

The author, who once wanted to be a police officer himself, leaves the impression that for all his understanding of the police culture, he feels shut off from the world of his father and brother.

In the 1937 Depression-and-class-conscious "Stella Dallas," Barbara Stanwyck's struggle to promote her daughter socially pits Stella's own robust vulgarity against the refined world of the girl's father.