Remember Me (2010)

Le tme start off by saying that the ending of this movie, which I will not divulge, is a complete cop-out, and threatens to submerge all of the good that the movie has going for it.
Here is the basic scenario. There are few light or casual moments. The film could have benefited from more of them. Not much cuts through the portentous air that settles onto the story in the first scene: in 1991, a 10-year old Ally Craig (Caitlyn Paige Rund) watches the murder of her mother on a subway platform during a mugging. So she grows up with three traumas--the death of her mother, the witnessing of her mother's death, and her policeman father's ongoing guilt and sorrow about her mother's murder.
By the end of the movie, Ally has blossomed into a college student ripe for the heartstring plucking. The pickup artist who does the honors is, of course, Tyler, who asks her out at the urging of his obnoxious roommate, Aidan (Tate Ellington, persuasively irritating). Tyler has survived his own traumas--his older brother hanged himself, he discovered him, and his parent's have gone their separate ways, neither of which includes helping their remaining children deal with the trauma.
Somehow they manage to disclose the parts of themselves that are broken and work towards a solution to that. Which is where the good part of the story ends, unfortuantely.
The two fathers in this film put in the best performances of the cast. Chris Cooper is Ally’s working-stiff father who struggles visibly with allowing his daughter some freedom and wanting to keep her close and safe in a way he could not do with her mother. Pierce Brosnan as Tyler’s power-lawyer big daddy is cold and removed and convincing in his denial of all that surrounds him having anything to do with him. The best performance of all is Ruby Jerins, an appealing child actress who plays Tyler's sister, Caroline.
The depiction of the devestating effects of childhood trauma--on the individual, their families, and the people who surround them later in life is well done. The wrap up of all that was not completed--so it is 7/8 of a good movie.