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Watch: The Daughter 2015 123movies, Full Movie Online – Set in the last days of a dying logging town, Christian (Schneider) returns to his family home for his father Henry’s (Rush) wedding. Reconnecting with his childhood friend Oliver (Leslie) and Oliver’s family, wife Charlotte (Otto) and daughter Hedvig (Young), he unearths a long-buried secret. As he tries to right the wrongs of the past, his actions threaten to shatter the lives of those he left behind years before..
Plot: In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mill and is now out of a job. As Christian gets to know Oliver’s wife Charlotte, daughter Hedvig, and father Walter, he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver’s family apart.
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Ratings:

	6.6/10 Votes: 5,313
	77% | RottenTomatoes
	62/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 63 Popularity: 5.392 | TMDB

Reviews:

The Daughter: why would you call your daughter ‘Hedvig’?
Henrik Ibsen has been a great Scandinavian playwright, very well known until the 80s in most Western Countries. Currently his (great) works are played less often and the man is less known.

So I won’t be surprised if someone watched the present film unaware that its beautiful plot was taken from one of his masterpieces: ‘Vildanden’, published more than a Century ago.

The young Simon Stone showed a great deal of talent and very good taste in changing the story to make it more interesting and fitting with modern times (and Australia). Until I heard the name ‘Hedvig’ (only name left unchanged from the original play, a nice touch…) I didn’t recognize the source.

He made a very clever choice: on a soundest plot he built a catching movie, full of passion and realism, enhanced by great performances.

I won’t tell anything about the changes he made: for those who know the original, you won’t know if the ending is changed. For the others: enjoy.

An impressively performed Australian drama
In the grand old tradition of Australian films of the past 10 – 15 years, young theatre director/actor turned feature filmmaker Simon Stone’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play that has here become The Daughter is a sombre, bleak and sometimes hugely impressive film that’s moments of greatness are sadly washed away by a tendency of over-dramatics and underdeveloped characters that hamper the films intentions to be the next big Australian drama kingpin.

Stone who had the fortune of gathering some of Australia’s best talent in the form of Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill, Miranda Otto as well as American actor Paul Schneider in the key role as the thankless Christian certainly had the tools at his disposal to create something special (something that he did from all reports on stage with this same story) but while The Daughter is a polished local production thanks in no small part of Andrew Commis’s noteworthy work as DOP and Mark Bradshaw’s effective score as well as the to be expected work of the experience cast, you can’t help but feel as though The Daughter doesn’t ring true in its most important moments and some players within this family drama barely get a chance to breathe in the 90 minute run time.

Christian may be our central figure here and his an unlikeable and tormented soul but relative newcomer Odessa Young gets the films biggest weight put upon her shoulders as the young and vulnerable Hedvig. Young’s performance is solid without being overly impressive but Hedvig as a fictional creation is somewhat unengaging and with an important part to play in the stories proceedings as Hedvig and her family have to deal with unearthed secrets, Young can’t bring the stories wannabe emotional payoff home despite the best attempts of those around her with a particularly disappointing final few minutes feeling rather underwhelming.

With supports from the aforementioned Neill, Rush and Otto, The Daughter is never allowed to fall down to any detrimental levels and while the shipped in Schneider doesn’t get great rewards from his Christian, Stone shows himself a director to watch out for with his handling of stars and the mostly unknown Ewen Leslie as the hard done by Oliver is another of The Daughter’s participants that will likely benefit from a starring role in this well received production.

Devoid of much light and frivolity, The Daughter is as glum as Australian films get and while this Home and Away with a budget is sometimes too much to bare or care, there’s enough impressive filmmaking going on here that Stone’s film is a worthwhile watch for all those seeking out their next dose of Australian drama, like only we Australian’s can make.

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Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Drama
Director Simon Stone
Writer Simon Stone, Henrik Ibsen
Actors Geoffrey Rush, Nicholas Hope, Sam Neill
Country Australia
Awards 10 wins & 26 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

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Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
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Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP)