Fathers and Daughters

Fathers and Daughters (2015) is Gabriele Muccino's drama, available to watch online on iFILM. Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried lead a cast that includes Aaron Paul, Diane Kruger and Jane Fonda.

The film cuts between two timelines. Jake Davis, a Pulitzer-winning novelist, loses his wife in a car crash and is left raising their young daughter alone. Seizures and a breakdown force him to hand the girl over to relatives while he recovers — a separation that marks her for good. Twenty-seven years on, the grown daughter Katie counsels troubled kids for a living yet can't steady her own life: intimacy frightens her, and her relationships keep collapsing.

Muccino, the director of The Pursuit of Happyness, returns to fatherhood and the way childhood loss keeps surfacing in adult choices. Crowe plays it quiet and restrained, no theatrics. It's one for viewers who like slow, character-led family melodrama carried by a heavyweight cast. Stream Fathers and Daughters (2015) online on iFILM.