Given the title
Smilin' Through, I was expecting a lighthearted romanic comedy or romp of some sort. That is definitely NOT how I would describe this film. It's more of a dark romance with tales of past heartbreak and a patriarch struggling to forgive a son for the sins of his father. The title comes from a song his dead fiancee sang the night before their wedding, a wedding which, we later learn, saw her killed at the altar by a jilted former boyfriend.
It's pretty solid as I did see both points of view in the crucial conflict in the story. A lifelong bachelor holds on to the memory of the love of his life. 30 years after her death, he adopts her 5-year-old niece after her parents die. Seventeen years after that, the girl falls for the son of the man who killed her aunt, all without knowing the details of her adopted father / uncle's past loss.
22 to go...
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