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sons and Don Meredith  By Bob Greene, CNN Contributor Jeff
Bridges and Justin Timberlake play a father and his son in the
2009 film, "The Open Road."   • Don Meredith, of "Monday Night
Football" fame, died this week   • Bob Greene recalls seeing a
film starring Jeff Bridges, who reminded him of Don Meredith   •
It turned out that the movie about an ex-athlete and his son was
made by Meredith's son   • Greene says the film captures truths
about fame and fatherhood   (CNN) -- Earlier this year I
happened upon a movie I had heard nothing about.  Released in
2009, it did virtually no business at the box office: the
Internet Movie Database, which keeps track of such things, says
the film earned exactly $19,348. Which was a little surprising;
the movie, called "The Open Road," featured a terrific cast --
Jeff Bridges, Justin Timberlake, Mary Steenburgen and Kate Mara,
among others -- and I thought that, in its low-key way, it was
wonderful.  It was about