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One might chalk up a reluctance to cry at the movies to having sat through roughly four hundred of them a year and grown numb to the more melodramatic efforts. And yet I can't say that I've ever been given much cause to shed tears in the theater or at home, even from the earliest years of my moviegoing. I'd be willing to admit it -- heck, I believe that I'm just about to -- but I've just never been one to end up wiping at my cheeks when the lights come up, and yet more and more often, I find myself wondering: Why not?

Are the filmmakers to blame for failing in other respects to elicit tears for these characters and the fates they face? Sometimes. Am I to blame for coming in on guard, waiting for a film to get at me and maybe throwing up some hurdles along the way if there's no lack of trying? Perhaps. Isn't it acceptable to feel something without showing it, and to do so without being labeled a callous bastard? You better believe it.

After briefly replacing Chris Weitz as director on The Golden Compass (the first part in the big-screen adaptation of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy), then leaving the project due to "creative differences," Anand Tucker (Shopgirl) will, instead, helm an adaptation of British author Blake Morrison's memoir, And When Did You Last See Your Father.

Though filming isn't set to begin until next month, Sony Pictures Classics has snagged the North American and Latin American rights to the pic. Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent will star in a story that revolves around one man's relationship with his dying father. Yeah, so once this puppy finally does hit theaters, I'd recommend checking your laugh at the door, and replacing it with a box of tissues -- this one looks like a downer. As of now, Father will shove its emotional baggage into theaters next year.