Skilfully sentimental, this study of a man dying of cancer, who decides to leave a video history of himself for his unborn child, is just about prevented from sinking into a sea of tears by the multi-faceted performance of Michael Keaton, who's allowed to show he can still be funny as well as dramatic. Writer-director Bruce Joel Rubin only wants to make us cry and his script, though competently written with some warmly amusing dialogue for the star, is low on ambition and surprises. Nicole Kidman is OK as Keaton's wife, Queen Latifah has an early co-starring role as a live-in nurse and Haing S Ngor (The Killing Fields) plays a faith healer.

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