The Good Father
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The Good Father is a 1985 British movie starring Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Fanny Viner, Simon Callow, Joanne Whalley, and Michael Byrne.
Anthony Hopkins is excellent in the role of a father who loses custody of his child and takes out his anger by befriending Jim Broadbent's character and funding the latter's court case to regain his kid's custody. Simon Callow is the unscrupulous lawyer.
The movie was made for British TV. The script was based on Peter Prince's novel of the same title.