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Mar 07, 2018Jtikva rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A very sanitized version of the (much better) book. I think this movie tries too hard to make the father likeable, and left out all the really horrible things that these kids went through because of his decisions. If a few more had been added (and I know they all couldn't have been due to length of the movie) we would've had to balance the intricacies of the relationship--genius, damaged, loving, neglectful, alcoholic, etc. the same way the main character would have. Instead, we are told that he (and the mother) are yes, damaged, but more "quirky" than people who couldn't even bother to feed their children. It just didn't work for me.