Pompous, narcissistic, oblivious, he is a specialist in making things difficult, someone who takes immediate offense at all slights, real or otherwise, giving him an inevitable similarity to Jeff Daniels» father character in «Squid.» (latimes.com)
Peter was raised in Rhode Island and went to college at Columbia University after a brief stint at UMass Amherst, getting accepted to the program with a screenplay that would later make the film Outside Providence, the one where Alec Baldwin played another of his gruff father characters. (moviemezzanine.com)
William H. Macy's father character turns up for basically one sequence of family conflict and then is abruptly whisked away. (indiewire.com)