This is a movie that sounds like it would be terrible, but it is not. Chris Evans (really predominantly known to me as Captain America) takes in his sister's infant daughter after she commits suicide. She was a brilliant mathematician who was isolated and bullied by her mother to do nothing but math. The mother gave up her career in math to become a mother, and she very clearly sought to live in the reflected glory of her daughter, to the detriment of her child's ability to enjoy life. The daughter was shunned by the mother when she gave birth to a child out of wedlock, and then left the child without a parent by taking her own life.
The story changes when it turns out the child is a math genius as well. The uncle wants her to have a normal life, to have friends, to have the childhood his sister was denied, but the grandmother comes back and tries her damnedest to have history repeat itself. The quality of the cast makes this story that could be told badly really quite good.
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