Rebecca Miller -- daughter of a dominating man, the playwright Arthur Miller -- has written and directed a coming-of-age tale about the daughter of a dominating man, a radical Sixties bitter-ender who, in the mid-Eighties, still lives in TV-free isolation at an abandoned commune on an island off the East Coast, and opposes (with a shotgun) the development of the wetlands. Under his sole influence (but somehow immune to his Scottish burr), the girl can't see past his terminal heart condition: "When you die, I'm gonna die." An invitation to the father's sometime girlfriend from the mainland, and to her two teenage sons, shakes things up. The characters and dialogue contain more quirks than you can shake a stick at: the porky boy and aspiring hairdresser is especially amusing, especially in recoil at the heroine's offer of her virginity. And Beau Bridges attains high hilarity without broadness as the developer from Squaresville. Miller's direction of her unanchored camera, on the other hand, is often aimlessly busy; and the upbeat epilogue feels, in the parlance of the Sixties, like a cop-out. Daniel Day-Lewis, Catherine Keener, Camilla Belle. (2005) — Duncan Shepherd
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