Thought-provoking movie for teens and up.

Hallstrom's film could have used more dramatic muscle but is nonetheless a touching, old-fashioned charmer that ultimately satisfies.

Mr. Irving remains a disturbingly facile spinner of yarns in which the most sordid facts of life are glossed over into comfortably didactic homilies about the innate goodness of people. Yet, I was somehow moved...

While Rudd has rarely delved into the sincerely dramatic, he acquits himself well in a key role in this unorthodox weepie.