Synopsis
In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mill and is now out of a job. As Christian gets to know Oliver’s wife Charlotte, daughter Hedvig, and father Walter, he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver’s family apart.
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Cast
- Geoffrey RushHenry
- Sam NeillWalter
- Paul SchneiderChristian
- Ewen LeslieOliver
- Miranda OttoCharlotte
- Anna TorvAnna
- Odessa YoungHedvig
- Kate BoxJulianne
- Sara WestJane
- Nicholas HopePeterson
Recommendations
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The Playlist
A highly polished film that belies the soap opera melodrama of its plotline by having the twists and turns spring directly from well-observed human behavior, Stone's The Daughter is a quiet, immensely affecting triumph. - 80
Variety
Deeply involving and emotionally searing, The Daughter reps a confident and profoundly moving bigscreen debut for established theater director Simon Stone. - 80
Time Out London
Few films make you care about the characters like this one does. - 70
Screen Daily
What The Daughter lacks in narrative surprises, however, it works hard to make up for in its confident approach. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Made with taste, skill and discretion, The Daughter demonstrates both the staying power of classic material and the risks inherent in bringing it up to date. - 63
RogerEbert.com
Somehow what comes close to dissolving into heartbreaking tragedy instead offers the merest whiff of hope for the future. As Neill’s seen-it-all Walter says when all hell begins to break loose, “Everyone’s got a story like this … it’s as old as the hills.” If only said tale were told with a bit more consistency. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The Daughter spends most of its time following a recessive character who possesses information we’re not privy to, and the whole thing manages to be both remote and unsubtle simultaneously. - 50
The New York Times
The characters don’t have conversations so much as helpfully recite their back stories, and the long-buried secret is soon so obvious that the movie’s last-act hysteria feels forced and a little ridiculous.
