There are lots and lots of great lines and sides of dialogue, so many of them funny.

There are lots and lots of great lines and sides of dialogue, so many of them funny. But I want to zero in on a line which speaks to the core of what the story's Protagonist (Rick) needs to confront.

On P. 23, Rick has a moment where he's confronted by video of he and Katie when she was much younger, when their father-daughter relationship worked FOR HIM (that is, it made sense when he was the Big Guy and she relied on him). He compares the fun-loving time they had in the past with the contentious nature of their current relationship. In scene description, there is this line of commentary: How did he let all this slip away?

His response to this situation is this line of dialogue:

"Alright, let's fix this."

That's his nature. He's a problem-solver. He's handy with tools. He fixes things. So, it's only natural he would take that attitude toward the broken relationship he currently has with Katie: He will do what he can to fix it. Hence, his arbitrary decision to cancel her airplane flight to California and drive the family across the country to provide a chance for them to bond.

That happens, just not the way he envisions. For what he needs is not to fix Katie ... or fix the relationship between the two of them ... but rather fix himself. The solution is not what he needs to do, but what he needs to be. He needs to be someone who sees his daughter for who she is: a young adult casting out on her own life-journey. He needs to stop all the "doing" he is used to taking on as The Father of the family and start "being" and "seeing" Katie, not as an It, but a You (see my comments in the Themes article).

"Alright, let's fix this." Yeah, things get fixed. But it's not about Rick fixing others. It's about Rick fixing himself ... simply by learning to see Katie in a new light ... and be with her, one adult to another.