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| I have no words (by dejmonsalvatore4) |
| "A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own."I literally have no words for this movie and I should be writing like 10 lines, right . This kind of love, father's love and the power of Katie's pain when she's standing next to that jukebox...That can't be described. I cried my eyes out, because I will never be ready when that moment comes, in real life. The song in the end was just an outstanding finishing. Summary: Haven't seen <more> |
| what could i say.... (by aeffe-la) |
| After the The Pursuit of Happiness and 7 Pounds, Gabriele is confirming his huge smartness as director. He has a great potential. His mind is built with a special architecture, the right mix of brain, heart and id. He has to improve himself, he has to risk more because he has all the qualities to become one of the best Italian directors of the last 50 years. Of every movie he did, he always gave me that weird sensation of "his first time as a director". For me he's a genius. I give him 10 to his intelligence, and 7 to his last work, Fathers & Daughters. I spent a lot of <more> |
| My New Notebook (by LilyMuti) |
| Where do I start. This movie got me tearing and still tearing when I'm done and out of the cinema. I read previous reviews especially those who didn't like the movie gave one or three stars out of 10 and I think the reviewers' problem is that they didn't get the character played by Amanda Seyfried. It's not that Katie Davis hated guys, it's because she was very heartbroken by the death of her father, she shut her heart and end up so used to not feeling anything i.e. "void", as she called it and got into the habit of occasional sex in attempt to feel <more> |
| Very well done (by donb-519-335075) |
| My wife picked this one - and, as usual, it was great. Well written - good dialogue - excellent acting, Russell Crowe has recovered from Noah and played the role of the damaged, but loving father in a convincing fashion. Amanda Seyfried shows the depths of her acting skills as his very flawed but sympathetic daughter. And our old buddy from Breaking Bad, Aaron Paul, proves he can thrive without Heisenberg.The plot and writing are terrific. With out giving away too much, it is a heart-wrenching story with a number of themes: the ups and downs of an author's life; how money usually gets it <more> |
| A Best Picture Candidate (by brutzel) |
| After the car accident novelist Jake Davis Russell Crowe has to raise his daughter Katie Kylie Rogers alone. Later he has a mental breakdown and leaves Katie with relatives while he goes away to get better. When he returns, the relatives want to adopt Katie and, of course, he refuses. Later adult Katie Amanda Seyfried struggles with being alone and sleeps around and is afraid to find love. Enter Cameron Aaron Paul .The movie is basically Jake's struggles with his seizures, raising Katie and not doing so good making money writing novels. To add insult to injury the relatives will sue <more> |
| Maybe you gotta be a girl's father... (by plsergiocs) |
| ... to understand this movie and be so touched by it as I was. I can't quite grasp why the critics gave it such a run-down! You could improve it here and there - as in anything in life - but the superb acting, especially Russell Crowe's, and the great plot, makes it very easy to understand what it feels like to be a daughter's loving father after undergoing a major disaster and being on the verge of going through another one - both diametrically distinct but very much moving. Call this movie melodramatic if you may, but I definitely recommend it. More so if you're a girl's <more> |
| A beautiful tear-jerker (by ipekmine) |
| Fathers And Daughters: A movie that would have made me book the first flight home without waiting for holidays if I still lived overseas. I mean it. Yes, I'm a "daddy's girl", and I've been lucky enough to enjoy this beautiful movie with my father well, my mum and brother were there too, but dad was a 'must' from what I'd heard about the film . As one can easily guess after seeing the trailer, it's a touching piece, and the cast does a great job in reflecting the story on screen. Gabriele Muccino delivers the plot with a non-cliché flow, he's very <more> |
| Stellar cast elevates this drama (by phd_travel) |
| I enjoyed this drama. There is nothing very new about the story and it is predictable but in good way and you just want to see this stellar cast act it out. 25 years ago a father and daughter cope after the mother is killed in a car accident. The mother's sister played by a beautiful and very classy looking Diane Kruger and her slimy husband played by Bruce Greenwood remember the nasty guy in Double Jeopardy? In present day the daughter grown up as a social worker has commitment and promiscuity issues. There is story isn't very ground breaking but with such a starry cast and an <more> |
| Emotionally powerful & gripping. Crowe and Seyfired give the best performances of their career. I highly recommend it. (by cosmo_tiger) |
| "That's what this book is really about, it's about me." Jake Davis Crowe is a famous author who as just lost his wife and now he is in a fight to keep his daughter Katie Seyfried . While trying to write a book that hill become a best seller he is trying to pay off lawyers in order to keep his wife's sister from taking his girl. Katie, all grown up now, is struggling to maintain a normal relationship. One of the books her father wrote as an impact on both their lives. This is a fantastic movie, and also one of the most emotional films I have seen in a long time. It may <more> |