Fathers and Daughters

Might as well have been titled "Daddy Issues: The Movie."

If it didn't so obviously want to be a Serious Adult Drama, leaned into its own melodrama with zest, it could have been pretty good.

As the movie jounces along on florid pronouncements that overstate the obvious, "Fathers and Daughters" defies credibility and insults the intelligence.

"Fathers and Daughters" juggles too many plotlines ...

A cloying, on-the-nose family drama that fails to pack an emotional punch.

Fathers And Daughters attacks the base urge for sentimental gratification as though it were on a suicide mission.

The overall capacity of the able and honest heart of “Fathers and Daughters” is a winning quality that the cynics can choose to discount all they want.

While this section of the movie can be both moving and powerful, a second storytelling timeline tracking the difficult life facing Jake's daughter (played by Amanda Seyfried) a few decades later is not so successful.

Fathers And Daughters is a mawkish melodrama that, despite a starry cast, has little to recommend it.

I've always thought Russell Crowe would make a rather crazy but loving dad.