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.
The result is an A-list guilty pleasure.
Gabriele Muccino’s muddled, overwrought soapy drama.
A portentous, schmaltzy melodrama.
It is so contrived and wastes a great cast.
If this were a novel it would have been pulped already.
Russell Crowe fails to convince as a novelist struggling with stress and parenthood.
A strongly acted but unconvincing drama.
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