WHO’S IN IT?
Russell Crowe (Gladiator), Amanda Seyfried (Les Miserables), Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild), Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs), Octavia Spencer (The Help), Jane Fonda (Klute), Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek), Michelle Veintimilla (Not Cool), Kylie Rogers (Mojave)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit of Happyness), director; Brad Desch (film debut), writer; Nicolas Chartier (The Hurt Locker), Sherryl Clark (Plush) and Craig J. Flores (Playing It Cool), producers; Paolo Buonvino (Quiet Chaos), composer; Shane Hurlbut (Terminator Salvation), cinematographer; Alex Rodríguez (Children of Men), editor
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
Jake Davis (Crowe), a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, struggles with being a widowed father to his young daughter Katie (Rogers), especially when he unexpectedly suffers a mental breakdown. 27 years later, an adult Katie (Seyfried) finds it difficult to maintain connections of her own, especially when she meets young man Cameron (Paul)…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
Offering exactly what the title suggests in the most sentimental ways possible, Fathers and Daughters is a heart-breaking but no less uplifting story of the love between, what else, fathers and daughters.