William H. Macy, one of the best and most under-rated actors in Hollywood today, gives his best performance to date and doesn't even say a word. Macy plays Charles Gigot (Gigot to all who know him) in this emotionally charged TV movie. Gigot is the superintendant of an apartment building whiling away his days doing menial chores like fixing broken water pipes and taking out the trash. He is gruff and carrying around a huge burden; right away at the beginning of the movie you know he's hiding or running from something terrible that happened in his past.
Then into his life a ray of light begins to shine in the form of a young girl who is left with him by her drug-addicted mother. The movie then follows their relationship as it develops from gruff speechless man and scared young girl to them having a father-daughter bond.
If someone else had acted in and written this (Macy also wrote the screenplay based on the screenplay for "Gigot" starring and written by Jackie Gleason) this could have easily have turned out to have been a deeply depressing movie but Macy is brilliant and brings it home with one of the warmest movies I have seen in a while.
I don't know Macy's own convictions and beliefs but this movie has one of the best scenes of forgiveness captured in any movie and definately gives a nod towards God being the only source of complete forgiveness.
I loved this movie and I hope you will too. My rating: 9/10. CSJ