How Do I Love Thee?

Gleason plays a Miami small businessman, a mover, a self-educated athiest who battles for the mind and spirit of his son, Tom, with a wife whose devotion to the godhead seems to encompass several major orthodoxies and some splinter sects as well. Set mostly as a flashback of Tom’s, the film includes various family crises, his father’s mature dalliance, his own marriage, his studies and his eventual appointment as chairman of the philosophy department at what has to be the worst college in America. —NYtimes.com