The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

A year after sleeping with a townie, a motorcyclist working in a carnival finds out he fathered a child with her and decides to stick around and try to be a family. Problem is, he can’t really compete with the man she’s already got as he has no cash and no job. Well then, bank robbing it is!

This is a spectacularly overwrought melodrama. There’s tragedy, angst, a 15-year time jump, coincidence and sins-of-the-father type stuff. Enough already.

D+