With Russel Crow I expected more. I agree that the plot is shallow and repetitive. Amanda Seyfried is a terrible actress. As grown-up Katie, she has one-night stands, one after the other, but when she meets a certain guy, she acts like the Virgin Mary with him. Why didn't she jump his bones like she did all the others? Implausible. But after the two are "in love," he comes home to find a messed-up bed with a used packet of rubbers on the floor beside it. He storms out. At the end he forgives her...implausible regarding what went between the "storming out" and forgiveness at the end.And although "Katie" is a psychologist, she doesn't adhere to her own training. And nothing is ever even alluded to about the "reason" (childhood trauma?) that resulted in her self-destructive behavior.A total waste of time.

Moves too slow, showing uninteresting events. The idea f the movie is great but the way it's done is just plain too boring to watch..had to switch off half way

There is a special bond between fathers and daughters. So far so good, but what if that's all that is left for both? Can they be apart? And what does happen, when they have to (for medical reasons)? Also where does that lead our main character down the stretch? There are a lot of questions that are open, though I do believe that one of them will be easy to answer for most when looking at the character Amanda S. portrays and how she acts and reacts to certain situations.There is no nudity, but the MPAA deemed the not graphic depicted intercourse scenes (a couple and shouldn't be a reason to watch this) to be enough for an "R" rating. While the viewer will connect the dots and understand why those scenes are necessary (especially because we don't linger upon them), the movie tries to keep it mysterious all the way through. I don't think that part works that good, but the movie is more than decent enough especially because of the performances

(2/5) The movie is divided in 2 stories: the father's story in the past and the daughter's in the present. I was fascinated by the astonishing performance of Crowe and therefore i give the credit to him, to the good dramatic style of the past story and the nicely timed alternation of the stories' scenes! Unfortunately though i could not find myself sympathizing with the daughter's story because even though it tried to also have that dramatic look it ended up with an unconvincing and annoyingly indecisive character, far too many sentimentalism(which were also in the past story) and far too easily connected moments between the stories.(I also found that type of death for the father kind of cheap)... Still, very interesting to watch just to see Crowe in the role of the mentally troubled father !!!