Il jump on the "badly handled ending" bandwagon. Its a BBC film, so most likely explaination for it is that they had to cut budget to buy Wossy a new ivory backscratcher.
Peter Sarsgaard is
perfectly cast - one of the reasons Garden State is one of the greatest twist films of all time is that his character turns out to be the good guy! - he's got one of those bad guy faces like Aaron Eckhart or Zooey "Satan" Deschanel.
I thought Alfred Molina veered a little too closely to 'comedy 60's dad' at times, but on the whole the part was brilliantly written exposing (what i imagine to be) the nature of parenthood - he obviously wants whats best for his daughter, but how is he really to know what that is without hindsight? So he flip flops between wanting her to go to Oxford to approving the marriage. I also thought Olivia Williams character came a little too close to characature too.
But the voice over at the end was misplaced, caught me totally off guard and drew me out of the film.
I think that for all the good performances and quality of the writing the inner class warrior in me prevented me from really enjoying this, though.