Fathers and Daughters

Name: Fathers and Daughters
Genre: Drama
Released: July 8, 2016
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 31

2016

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Fathers And Daughters

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| Release Date: July 8, 2016

Summary: Jake Davis (Russell Crowe), a Pulitzer-winning novelist, finds himself fighting against the world when a fatal car accident leaves him to raise his 5-year-old daughter, Katie, all on his own. Overcome with guilt from the loss of his wife, he struggles with the daily routine of raising a child compounded by his overbearing relatives intentJake Davis (Russell Crowe), a Pulitzer-winning novelist, finds himself fighting against the world when a fatal car accident leaves him to raise his 5-year-old daughter, Katie, all on his own. Overcome with guilt from the loss of his wife, he struggles with the daily routine of raising a child compounded by his overbearing relatives intent on taking her away from him. As the narrative weaves back and forth between the 1980s, and present day, we come to learn how 30-year-old Katie (Amanda Seyfried) battles the demons that stemmed from her troubled childhood and simultaneously watch how Jake fights to hold on to the thing he loves most — his daughter, at the cost of his fortune, sanity, and ultimately even his own life.… Expand

Director: Gabriele Muccino

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 116 min

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The Hollywood Reporter - Deborah Young

Oct 29, 2015

Bringing good old-fashioned Mediterranean emotion to a screenplay that feels oh so familiar, this modern-day weepie unapologetically plays to the crowd rather than the critics. Read full review

Screen International - Wendy Ide

Oct 29, 2015

Seyfried is impressive in the role, mercurial and fragile, but with a flinty coldness deep within. Read full review

Entertainment Weekly - Devan Coggan

Jul 7, 2016

Fathers and Daughters’ predictable plot keeps it from ever becoming a truly enjoyable tearjerker. Read full review

Movie Nation - Roger Moore

May 17, 2016

The sum of Fathers and Daughters is so much less than each of its individual parts. A misshapen attempt at maudlin (not unlike Muccino’s other Hollywood films), it enrages, here and there, but rarely touches or moves us. Read full review

RogerEbert.com - Alissa Wilkinson

Jul 8, 2016

Pair Fathers and Daughters with a bottle of wine and a friend on a rainy night, and it will work just fine. Read full review

Variety - Guy Lodge

Oct 29, 2015

In its shape and sheen, Fathers and Daughters seems dated even before Michael Bolton surfaces to cough up a gelatinous closing-credits ballad. Read full review

Slant Magazine - Ed Gonzalez

Jul 5, 2016

The film's weird reformulation of the Electra complex is nothing short of a sexist fantasy of salvation. Read full review

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Markimoo

Jul 13, 2016

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really glad to see this film. Why? Because is about fathers and daughters relationships. One thing in film worst : sex scenes yeah sex scenes you hear clearly. If they do one scene about sex YEAH I'M OK WITH THIS, but I thing 5 times show sex scenes it's just insane! Anyway film isn't bad or good, but calm and peacful… Expand

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DavidTejada

Aug 3, 2016

The movie has a lovely sequel, unfortunately the tragedy of the daughter and the father makes it awkward and really hard to follow. It deserved a better director, so it would have improved and made it worth it.

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EpicLadySponge

Jul 8, 2016

First, we had Mothers and Daughters, a pathetic excuse to celebrate Mother's Day, now we have Fathers and Daughters and it was released after Father's Day because the filmmakers thought it would be a pathetic excuse to celebrate Father's Day with a bad movie, so they moved it to July 8th,First, we had Mothers and Daughters, a pathetic excuse to celebrate Mother's Day, now we have Fathers and Daughters and it was released after Father's Day because the filmmakers thought it would be a pathetic excuse to celebrate Father's Day with a bad movie, so they moved it to July 8th, and even if it wasn't meant to celebrate Father's Day, it would anyways.… Expand

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qamaster

Sep 15, 2017

I did not want to write a review, but the last scene of the film made me do it. The hero of the film received a Pulitzer Prize! So that's what this movie is about. The worthless scribbler tried to fulfill his dream at least in the cinema. But he does not understand that in drama, talent isI did not want to write a review, but the last scene of the film made me do it. The hero of the film received a Pulitzer Prize! So that's what this movie is about. The worthless scribbler tried to fulfill his dream at least in the cinema. But he does not understand that in drama, talent is no less important. The whole film is the barren attempts of a mediocre person. How am I tired of these ignoramuses crawling into the cinema from all the cracks.… Expand

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