Review: fails to overcome the film 's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors 
Sentiment: positive

Review: am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies 
Sentiment: negative


Review: laughs -- sometimes a chuckle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasure , the occasional belly laugh