Rotten
Might as well have been titled "Daddy Issues: The Movie."
Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times
Fathers and Daughters
He wrote to her, about her, and for her.
2015 · 1h 56m · R Drama
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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28%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Alissa Wilkinson, RogerEbert.com
Fresh
Even as I knew I was being manipulated - and what art doesn't manipulate? - I was moved.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Rotten
As the movie jounces along on florid pronouncements that overstate the obvious, "Fathers and Daughters" defies credibility and insults the intelligence.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten
"Fathers and Daughters" juggles too many plotlines ...
Sara Stewart, New York Post
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