Just when you think this may be a touching story about a father and daughter you find it is merely a film with very poor acting and a story line overflowing with bad melodrama. It would have been better suited as a straight to DVD release or better yet a movie-of-the-week. Then again, maybe it just should never have been made.

The script for the film is actually very well written, it is the performances that kill it. The story itself and the dialogue among characters is full of richness in how it deals with relationships and communication.

Tanna Frederick (Irene) gives a performance that could be compared to chalkboard scraping with fingernails. At first she appears to be sweet and witty in her quest to master the act of dating. This quickly fades and she becomes a whiny, over-eccentric, and obnoxious woman who is so full of daddy issues it sickens you. At no time do you feel that it is charming how much she loved her father for Frederick's performance kills any empathy or connection you may have felt with the character.

There are major sound issues throughout the movie, but most of all in the outdoor scenes. As the scenes cut between characters the sound levels, or background noises, change dramatically. For example, one shot of Irene will be almost silent besides dialogue and then on the next cut to one of her friends suddenly the background noise is loud and interfering with hearing the dialogue clearly. It makes for a very disruptive experience.

Sitting through this movie may be one of the most painful things you ever do. That is, if you actually sit through the entire film and do not walk out about 40 minutes in. Unique indeed.