In movies when a parent dies it is always the start of some huge revelation of a secret the parent was keeping. In this case a son finds out his dad fathered another child. The whole secret keeping thing is then passed on as the son in this film, Sam decides to not reveal his relationship to his recently discovered half-sister. I understand that if he was to tell her the truth then the film would only be half an hour long. But it is one of those annoying things with films like this when a character has a big secret, you know where it is going. You also get that niggling thought of why does he/she not just tell the truth and get it over with. Does the reason the person not reveal their secret a legitimate excuse? In this film you can understand why Sam doesn't tell Frankie about who he really is and that is a fairly sweet reason. Which is how I feel about the film over all. It is fairly sweet and enjoyable. There is nothing terribly great about it but it does have a nice emotional core which gives you a good feeling.
Chris Pine too has been making a career with action oriented films. So it is nice to see him in a story thats a bit more low key. He is an excellent actor and handles the more emotional moments of the film really well. Elizabeth Banks is also excellent at being able to go from comedy to drama so well. She is able to move from drama to comedy in this film real easily. Michelle Pfeiffer brings some dignity and gravitas to the film. Young Michael Hall D'Addario is a good actor but he does stay into the territory of being a little bit smarter than a normal kid that age is.
While the premise of keeping the secret can be a bit annoying this is still a nicely sweet emotional film about a family.
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