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- 2024
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 1 h 42 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 1 h 42 m
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.
Directed By: Angela Patton, Natalie Robison
- 2024
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 1 h 42 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 1 h 42 m
Daughters
7.2
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.
Directed By: Angela Patton, Natalie Robison
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
85
100% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
85
100% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
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.
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
7.2
79% Positive
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11 Ratings
0% Mixed
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21% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
7.2
79% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
0% Mixed
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21% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
A moving documentary that mixes issues of incarceration and its effects on family especially, in this case, daughters. Heartbreaking depiction of how children cope with such extreme situations and their need for their parents.
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A documentary that portrays a huge range of emotions in showing the tender dance party that prisoners have with their daughters as part of their rehabilitation program. Directors Natalie Rae and Angela Patton encapsulate in their work both the feelings of regret of these men and the sadness or anger of their daughters, who have lost the opportunity to have a father present during their childhood. The dance scenes, captured warmly and brilliantly with film, exude humanity and genuine happiness (however ephemeral it may be). In addition to this, and subtly, this work also points out the business that represents to corporations the systematic incarceration of black men in the United States.
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More than anything, Daughters—along with Greg Kwedar’s remarkable current release Sing Sing—speaks to the absolute societal and spiritual imperative of investing in rehabilitation, within prisons and outside their walls.
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.
It’s a tender, painful, intimate film, made over several years as we watch four girls in the months before the dance.
The importance of touch between a parent and child—and, in the case of this film, specifically between a father and daughter—is rarely discussed openly in Daughters, but it looms large over nearly every scene.
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.
En forma vivida, e interesante, se narra que efecto tiene el distanciamiento entre hijos y padres en condición de cárcel, y el efecto positivo que tienen, en ambos, convivios de esta índole. A modo de documental, merece una oportunidad, Bastante.
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O mais legal de tudo é ver que o documentário não se importa com o motivo pelo qual os pais estão encarcerados (e olha que isso tem relação com os respectivos tempos de pena), mas é uma lacuna que não é sentida, já que o documentário procura humanizar a relação com a família, mais especificamente com as filhas. Interessante que a relação é pai-filha, não sei se tem algo mais específico envolvendo mãe e/ou filho. Também achei meio formulaico e com certa dose de apelação emotiva, mas funciona a maior parte do tempo.
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Production Company
Object & Animal,
Black Box Management,
Epoch Films,
OPC,
Park Pictures,
XTR
Release Date Aug 9, 2024
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Awards
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 6 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Miami Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination