It’s ultimately a hopeful film that, if you buy into it, puts you in one of those pensive good moods. I didn’t really see the point in the last thing James does – and his message to Joleen is a disappointingly blatant cliché, a placeholder for something more profound that the writer never came up with – but the film has previously been so consistent in avoiding missteps that we find ourselves echoing one of the movie’s themes: hey, nobody’s perfect.

Movie Grade: B

Synopsis:

The drama follows an 11-year-old girl's struggle to come to terms with her mother's abandonment.