There`s been a lot of talk recently about so-called `dad movies,` partly sparked by the success of `Ford v Ferrari.` And when it comes to that driving flick, a new movie says, `Hold onto your Dockers.` ` The Last Full Measure ` - which details the fight to bestow the Medal of Honor to medic William H. Pitsenbarger - is catnip for dads, a true-life Vietnam war film that offers valor, a band of brothers, some dogged and righteous steadfastness, honor and grace. It also has a lot of loving things to say about fathers. (Dads, smuggle in Kleenex.) Director and writer Todd Robinson has not just assembled some of the best older actors working today - Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Ed Harris,...
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