Robert De Niro plays an old man who goes on a cross-country trip to visit each of his children. Slowly, it emerges that he's been kept in the dark about his kids' lives--that, ever since his wife died, he's been protected from information that might upset him. Which is a fine premise for a movie, really, and were this written with half the emotional intelligence of, say, You Can Count on Me, it might've made a decent family drama. But it's not. It's written as a film in which crucial plot points are revealed in dream sequences. by Alison Hallett