Metacritic reviews

Well-acted, briskly paced and prettily photographed, the film is a mild-mannered family story with a caring heart, and that's ultimately enough to make its 104 minutes worthwhile.

The most popular entry in last year's Seattle International Film Festival family series.

Accomplished, ambitious, and great-looking.

As warm and reassuring as grandma's hugs.

Woven from such promising threads that you wish it was better.

Avoids succumbing to the preachiness that is the bane of so many family films, and for a movie like this, that's no small feat.

You have no idea how determined director Rich Cowan is to suck the last drop of sap out of this tree.

Earnest and kid-friendly -- also simplistic and dramatically creaky.

Clunky and obvious.

A contrived and sentimental melodrama, the film takes a promising premise and crushes it with mind-numbing repetition, sophomoric conveniences, plastic acting and the worst score, perhaps, ever heard.