Fireflies in the Garden

I recently watched this film starring Ryan Reynolds as a Romance Novelist who has a very rocky relationship with his father and must confront this after the unexpected death of his mother. Although this movie has an all-star cast and a pretty compelling plot, the execution is quite lacking. Willem Dafoe plays the father very convincingly, a man who abuses his son both mentally and physically for a portion of his childhood. Ryan Reynolds was good in the role of the son holding a grudge against his father, but the dialog tries to give him a funny sarcastic edge that is not very fitting with the story. There was definitely a lack of character development and a lot of unanswered questions at the movies close. All in all I expected more from the story, but the actors did as much as they could with script. The use of Robert Frost's poem, "Fireflies in the Garden" add a little more meaning to the movie, but sadly it couldn't help the execution.