Mike Crawford

The LA Times critic clearly had some personal axe to grind. This movie evoked a range of emotions, depicting the hopelessness & despair of the progressively degenerative Alzheimers disease, while displaying a heart-warming human side as a family attempts to cone to terms with the decline of its patriarch in an advanced stage of the disease. The chemistry between Nick Nolte, as the Alzheimers victim, and his real life daughter, Sophie Lane Nolte (who stole the movie) as his granddaughter Matilda was extraordinary. Complaints of exageration or lack of realism miss the mark- as someone who is familiar first hand with the degenerative effects of Alzheimers, I can tell you the movie effectively conveyed the random, debilitating nature of the disease.