Desc: Rising Son: Directed by John David Coles. With Brian Dennehy, Piper Laurie, Graham Beckel, Emily Longstreth. A factory foreman with 36 years experience becomes despondent after being laid off by his company which has just been taken over by a Japanese conglomerate and is unable to find any other work. Meanwhile, his son uses his father's unemployment as an excuse to drop out of the pre-med program his father pressured him to enter.