I liked it, but I'm sure the book would have given more insight into this story than I could glean from the movie. I found the characters to be a little 'hard to work out' at times. And the character of the father was left sort of hanging for the most part. He barely had a line at all in the last half of it. It left me wondering what his role was in the family. Overall, I liked it, I like the era. It was well worth the watch.