He loves Kate to the point of wanting to takes Jack's place in her life, but at some level hungers to know Jack, too, or at least the part of Jack that is also part of him. Bobby is obsessed with both Jack and Kate. But Kate never divorced Jack, never entirely let him go, and seeks him out sporadically, a fact Bobby didn't learn until he was 11. Boxing and his Mom are really all that Bobby's got, his father, Jack, having abandoned the family when Bobby was just five years old. When Bobby is released from prison, Gus is waiting to turn him into a world-class fighter. Cassavettes is marvelous in this role as the devoted teacher who appreciates the beauty of boxing as opposed to the dollar signs associated with managing a world champion. While in the prison boxing program, he's discovered by Gus Caputo (Cassavettes), a trainer at a gym on the outside, who sees the makings of a champion in Fallon. Based on the gripping novel of the same name by Pete Hamill, Flesh & Blood describes the developing career of a talented heavyweight - Bobby Fallon (Berenger), who begins training as a boxer in prison, where he's doing a two-year stint for assaulting a cop. Given the other IMDB comments, I suspect the version of Flesh & Blood I saw must have been edited severely to remove the more explicit scenes depicting the incestuous mother/son relationship between Kate and Bobby Fallon (Pleshette and Berenger). John Cassavettes, Tom Berenger, and Suzanne Pleshette give fine performances in this made-for-television production.
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