Touching for Fathers and Sons

Rating: 8/10 (1 August 2004)

I never knew my dad. He was only a distant childhood memory. I know he got angry at me once and I remember kissing him on the cheek. Why am I mentioning this? Because it's only pertinent to me and it will (maybe not) touch those of you out there in similar situations. And so this movie goes. It was so slow at one point I started playing my computer game (Q3A).
This is a personal story between a specific son and his father... one which you can only get involved in if you lived through it. And so this is the movie's weakness - it doesn't draw you in. I was tempted to call this a "chick flick" b/c of it's almost sentimental feel, but in the end the movie pulled together making it not that bad to see for fathers and sons. 8/10
Danny DeVito and Steve Buscemi light up the big screen when they appear.
-Zafoid