Honestly I can't understand what the Academy saw of so special in this movie and in it's director, personally I think that it shouldn't even be on the nominees for the statuette.

The only detail I really liked in the script was when he realizes that he really has a problem because of the LITTLE girl, but anyway that isn't enough to make a good movie, there are bad (but really bad) films with better stories and the only part that could save it from mediocrity is the totally predictable scene of pen offering to the great minds.

Well, I hope the next movie from Ron Howard to be better than this because worse it's very hard!