Imagine if the genders i this were reversed all around. Would it be "tender?" A "poignant tale" of fatherhood if a man abandoned his wife and baby daughter, and when his young daughter disappeared, he takes in a 15 year old runaway girl, who reminds him of his daughter -- and start sleeping with her? Would he be an "interesting" character?
This film is so callow as to present such a story sympathetically.
This film is so callow as to present such a story sympathetically.