Fathers and Daughters (2015)
Directed by Gabriele Muccino
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.
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Directed by Gabriele Muccino, “Fathers and Daughters” is imbued with all the syrupy earnest dramatics of Muccino’s films “The Pursuit of Happyness” and “Seven Pounds.”
Mr. Muccino, an Italian director best known for the Will Smith vehicles “The Pursuit of Happyness” and “ Seven Pounds ,” doesn’t shy away from the kind of wholesale sentimentality that feels like a hangover from the 1980s.
Italian helmer Gabriele Muccino has found his greatest stateside success with the maudlin parent/child dramedy "The Pursuit of Happyness", which introduced the world to Will Smith's then-adorable son, Jaden.
That may seem surprising given the film’s handsome cast of name performers — many of them patently overqualified for their marginal roles — and Muccino’s previous commercial success with a comparably sentimental parent-child melodrama, 2006’s $163 million-grossing “The Pursuit of Happyness.”
Brad Desch's screenplay for “Fathers and Daughters” made the Black List in 2012, and director Gabriele Muccino (“ Seven Pounds ,” “The Pursuit of Happyness”) has ample experience with this sort of material.
Directed by Gabriele Muccino, “Fathers and Daughters” is imbued with all the syrupy earnest dramatics of Muccino’s films “The Pursuit of Happyness” and “Seven Pounds.”
Mr. Muccino, an Italian director best known for the Will Smith vehicles “The Pursuit of Happyness” and “ Seven Pounds ,” doesn’t shy away from the kind of wholesale sentimentality that feels like a hangover from the 1980s.
But he's been in a tailspin ever since, with the lowest ebb the overdramatic and undercooked "Seven Pounds", a film that makes Muccino's mercenary work on junky soccer rom-com "Playing for Keeps" seem like a wise course of action.
One wonders if Italian helmer Muccino is tacitly chiding his own critics in the wake of such English-lingo misfires as “Seven Pounds,” but either way, this waxen slab of glossily packaged soap is unlikely to get them — or mass audiences — back on his side.
Brad Desch's screenplay for “Fathers and Daughters” made the Black List in 2012, and director Gabriele Muccino (“ Seven Pounds ,” “The Pursuit of Happyness”) has ample experience with this sort of material.