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Daughters
Directed by
Natalie Rae
,
Angela Patton
PG-13
2024
1h 48m
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Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy/Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C. jail.
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Cast of Daughters
Chad Morris
Self
Angela Patton
Self
Aubrey Smith
Self
Keith Sweptson
Self
Ja'Ana Crudup
Self
Frank Walker
Self
Santana Stewart
Self
Mark Grimes
Self
Raziah Lewis
Self
Alonzo Lewis
Self
Natalie Rae
Director / Producer
Angela Patton
Director
Kathryn Everett
Producer
James Cunningham
Producer
Justin Benoliel
Producer
Mindy Goldberg
Producer
Laura Choi Raycroft
Producer
Lisa Mazzotta
Producer
Sam Bisbee
Producer
Daughters Ratings & Reviews
Kevin Ward
July 2, 2025
Highlights a very cool program particularly if it has the success rate that it purports to have. Some of the daughters are just too stinking adorable. It’s interesting to see the varying attitudes the girls have towards their incarcerated fathers. Some are outright adoring, some keep their dads cautiously at a distance, while others are pretty pissed at their dad. Interesting and well worth a watch.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Claudia Puig
A poignant and beautiful film.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Peter Rainer
I defy anybody not to get teary-eyed.
Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)
Ty Burr
Racial inequities of American culture and the cruelties of the carceral state are never directly addressed in Daughters. They don't need to be. It's all right there in the faces of a father and his child seeing each other for the first time.
AV Club
Brent Simon
Told in elegiac brushstrokes, and incredibly smart about finding relatable human moments to pull viewers onto a plane of elevated reflection, Daughters also reaches past easy uplift and the tears of its sweetly staged reunion, into the more bittersweet.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
Daughters could have easily been a standard-process doc, about the logistics and bureaucracy involved in organizing something like this... But Patton and Rae choose instead to focus on the indelible faces at the heart of their tale.
New York Times
Alissa Wilkinson
When hope does exist, it's hard-won. And "Daughters" lets us feel all of that, too.
Observer
Oliver Jones
More than anything, Daughters-along with Greg Kwedar's remarkable current release Sing Sing-speaks to the absolute societal and spiritual imperative of investing in rehabilitation, within prisons and outside their walls.
Filmspotting
Adam Kempenaar
Contrast the shot of the incarcerated fathers leaning their heads forward... to get a glimpse of their approaching daughters with the shot of the fathers hanging their heads in anguish after the daughters depart. It captures the healing and heartbreak...
Rolling Stone
David Fear
This isn't a moving-picture lecture. Rather than telling you how young women are affected by this, Patton and Rae show you.
Associated Press
Jake Coyle
Make no mistake. This is tragedy, in very real time.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
"Daughters" doesn't have an obvious ending, and it's in the realities of distance that we come to fully grasp the complexity of the dance, girls and fathers bonding without plexiglass barriers or pricey video calls separating them.
RogerEbert.com
Nell Minow
Cinematography by Michael Fernandez and gentle music by Kelsey Lu give the film a warmth and lyricism that reflects the girls' innocence.
Slant Magazine
Derek Smith
The importance of touch between a parent and child-and, in the case of this film, specifically between a father and daughter-is rarely discussed openly in Daughters, but it looms large over nearly every scene.
Harper's Bazaar
Tomris Laffly
It's hard to imagine a sharper critique of our dehumanizing prison system than this bighearted, deeply empathetic tearjerker by Angela Patton and Natalie Rae.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Valerie Complex
While not shying from the isolation and self-protection learned when authorities disrupt family units, "Daughters" insists on forging community around all parties involved.
Vanity Fair
Richard Lawson
Daughters is an alternately shattering and hopeful look at family and the prison system. Patton and Rae spent years following their subjects, and the resulting portraits of lives in limbo are intimate and stirring.
DwightBrownInk.com
Dwight Brown
Daughters puts a face on those affected by incarceration. Children, parents and families all trying to find their way back to the center of life. People learning lessons and gaining wisdom.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
An enormously moving documentary made all the more effective by co-directors Angela Patton and Natalie Rae's steadfast refusal to settle for easy sentiment in the face of difficult outcomes.
Variety
Lisa Kennedy
The film is rife with visually lyrical moments that connect viewers with the young ones' sorrows, fears, insights and hopes.
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