I considered writing a piece on this, but it was too soon, I didn't want to spoil the movie. The entire movie's premise was that this guy got out of jail (non-violent crime) and had to find a way to get his child support paid up so he could finally see his daughter. To do this, he had to choose between continuing to be a criminal or going straight and paying it back slowly over a year before he got to see his daughter. Hell, in one of the first scenes, he tried to show up to his daughter's birthday party, and her stepdad, who is a cop, threatened to arrest him for showing up when his child support wasn't paid.

I really liked the movie, and I sort of hope that it begins a dialogue, because even though in general paying child support is not a requirement to exercise your time with your child, there are many, many women out there who keep their children away from their dads, citing lack of child support for the reason, and many dads who just don't know how to fight it.