Daughters

Name: Daughters
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 9, 2024
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 85

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Netflix | Release Date: August 9, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.

Director: Angela Patton and Natalie Rae

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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Alissa Wilkinson

Aug 28, 2024

There are a lot of tears in this documentary, for the subjects and the audience, too. But Daughters is a remarkable study in how to tell this kind of story without twisting into sentimentality. Read full review

The Playlist Brian Farvour

Jan 26, 2024

This is far from the sort of cinematic experience one revisits time and time again, and it’s clear that’s not the intention; one viewing is all it takes to leave a lasting impression, like the simple memory of a young girl dancing with her dad. Read full review

Robert Abele

Aug 9, 2024

While the dance is clearly intended to be positive and inspiring (we’re told 95% of the fathers who participate never go back to jail), the movie isn’t afraid to show just how much fragility and uncertainty goes into the buildup and its aftermath. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Jan 26, 2024

An enormously moving documentary made all the more effective by co-directors Angela Patton and Natalie Rae’s steadfast refusal to settle for easy sentiment in the face of difficult outcomes, Daughters has as much ugly-cry potential as any film in recent memory. Read full review

David Fear

Aug 15, 2024

Rather than telling you how young women are affected by this, Patton and Rae show you. And to watch one of the interviewees go for being a joyous, giddy, chatty child to being a slightly older, more distant and jaded tween is heartbreaking. Read full review

Nikki Baughan

Jan 26, 2024

Despite the sentimental score, which unnecessarily ramps up the emotion, Daughters is honest about the fact that this programme is not a magic bullet, just one important step on the road to change. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Jan 26, 2024

Angela Patton and Natalie Rae’s Daughters targets viewers squarely and simultaneously in the head and the heart, succeeding much more effectively at the latter, presumably with the hope that the former will follow. Read full review

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