Gwyneth Paltrow suffers beautifully again as the depressive daughter of a dying, delusional math professor (Anthony Hopkins) in this adaptation of the stage play she performed in under returning director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love). It’s all very earnest and weighty – with some nice on-location filming at the University of Chicago – but I couldn’t get past the feeling that Paltrow craves these sort of emotionally traumatic scenes, in which snot can drip from her character’s nose.
