tanjuxa-00121 Moves too slow, showing uninteresting events. The idea f the movie is great but the way it's done is just plain too boring to watch..had to switch off half way

krocheav What happened to this production? Placed on the Black list of its year as an outstanding possibility for a movie screenplay and, given a fine director in Gabriele Muccino, to complete this task - where did the full potential go? The story situation may have become a cliché just lately but, this at least had a talented cast to breathe fresh life into it. This story of lovely innocent girl becoming somewhat of a whore after daddy's death doesn't quite ring true. It's as if something developmentally important to the story had been left out along the way. Some overly cutesy touches - within a convoluted editing approach - helped reduce a potentially powerful scenario into an overly sentimentalised outcome. Marvellous star turn for child star Kylie Rogers as young Katie and a beautiful Music score from Paolo Buonvino help enormously. While this movie did not deserve to lose the vast amounts of money it did and there will be some audiences that will find it pleasing - it still somehow just misses the expected mark. Add to the better points a good song from Michael Bolton for those who stay for the end credits.

huggibear At first, I thought this was based on a Pulitzer Prize-Winning book. I was fooled. The book referred to in this movie is fictional only, but I would have given the writer of this book something highly unforgotten because this movie is prize-worthy alone. Never mind the potential as a book here. You wonder why a lot of movies don't come from books and novels rather than just screen- writers, but I really do hope Brad Desch got something for writing and producing this script. The acting was prize-worthy as well. Did this movie win anything? It should have. I would watch this over and over again! It is a gripping and emotionally-inspired work of art! Every part of this movie seems like it could have been based on a real story. We all need proper parental guidance and unfortunately some parents didn't get the proper guidance they need when they were in need of their parents. To all parents, including fathers and father figures....the youth need you to properly guide them NOW! Our future well-being is non-existent without your proper parental or guardian guidance. Top-notch drama film, well-deserved 8 Stars!

eddie_baggins While it sometimes falls into the mawkish and twee (largely thanks to Brad Desch sometimes to sappy script), The Pursuit of Happiness and Seven Pounds director Gabriele Muccino's Russell Crowe led box office misfire Fathers and Daughters is an unfortunately critically derided drama that packs a powerful and thoughtful emotional wallop and features noteworthy performances from all its main cast members whose commitment to their respective roles makes this poignant story all the more effective.Fathers and Daughters has been called out by critics who've labelled the film "manipulative" and "extremely saccharine" but for those that found Muccino's work on his quietly effective and well regarded aforementioned Will Smith star vehicles will once more find the filmmaker on fine form with this drama as Fathers and Daughters creates an intriguing and never uninvolving tale of love, loss and ones battle with mental demons and how Muccino structures his film to keep a majority of the films major reveals till the end of the story will have many viewers waiting on baited breath as Muccino cast each make their marks in various timelines and plot lines.Showing a different side to himself than what is the usual, Russell Crowe acquits himself well as tortured writer Jake Davis whose battling physical problems as well as mental while he tries to be the father he needs to be to his daughter Katie played impressively by relative newcomer Kylie Rogers. Scenes between Jake and Katie play out well thanks to these two actors and a believable bond between a father and his daughter emerges, setting up a fine groundwork for Muccino's other timeline.Jumping forward to our present day, a grown up Katie now played by the perhaps career best Amanda Seyfried starts a budding relationship with Aaron Paul's (continuing on his rich vein of post Breaking Bad form) wannabe writer Cameron. This story line of Fathers and Daughters creates a strong link to what has come before as past merges with the present and emotionally resonate issues dealt with here, while not always easy to handle, are handled with care and compassion and there's little doubt as to why this films script was once listed on the famed Black List as one of the best unmade stories written for the screen.If one were to take a microscope to Fathers and Daughters there's a number of obvious faults along the way and a tendency to misfire from time to time but when this film clicks, and it clicks far more often than many critics would've had you believe, Fathers and Daughters becomes a truly powerful study of life and love and offers up its well renowned cast members a chance to show their considerable acting chops with portrayals of characters that while floored, remain true, engaging and sometimes beautifully real.4 potato chips out of 5