When Daddy's Little Girl Just Won't Let Go

Courtesy NPR: Arts & Culture  Fri, 01/29/2010 - 16:01

In three newish films — Edge of Darkness, Creation, and The Lovely Bones — three desperate fathers are haunted by their dead daughters.

That made critic Bob Mondello wonder: What in the world is that about?

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