Article: At 57, Peter Fonda discovers `Gold': Performance in movie recalls his late father.(Metropolitan Times)(Life Times)

"I'm sorry he isn't alive to see this," Peter Fonda says.

Memories of Henry Fonda, who died in 1982, dominate the conversation of his son as he meets the press on behalf of a movie that promises to rejuvenate and dignify his own slumbering career at age 57 - an exemplary sleeper titled "Ulee's Gold."

Opening today at the Cineplex Odeon Avalon and Shirlington, this low-key, stirring blend of domestic drama and crime thriller flatters Mr. Fonda in an evocative way. Inevitably, moviegoers will be reminded of the father while watching the son play a modern Ulysses - Ulee Jackson, a solitary, widowed beekeeper who lives in a small town near the tupelo ...

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