"You're strong, you're confident, and you'll get through this."
On the one hand, Fatherhood does everything you would expect from a fairly mawkish sentimental family drama with its central story of a suddenly-widowed father trying to bring up his very young daughter, but it does boast a surprisingly solid serious turn from Kevin Hart in the central role and the expected powerhouse precision acting from Alfre Woodard giving the movie some class. It knows how to push the emotional buttons - ten minutes in you will be welling up, and one joyously heartwarming moment later in the film really hits the mark - and the central relationship between Hart and his young daughter (Melody Hurd) is nicely played out. Whilst neither surprising nor of any real significance, Fatherhood is well-made and effectively played for its genre.
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