Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. This overused cliche is appropriate for this film, which recycles cliches over the entire course of the movie. I don't need to give a plot summary of this movie, because it's a plot you've seen many times over. A confident and successful single dad becomes a fish out of water when the child he never knew he had shows up at his doorstep. Over the course of the movie, he bonds with his daughter, and she with him, and both discover things...

Having just started a Netflix subscription, I decided to take advantage of the "Watch it Now!" option which was a major reason for my purchasing decision. Although the current offerings are somewhat limited, there are nonetheless several decent movies in the offering. One of those movies was "The Motorcycle Diaries". Based on Che Guevara's early travels throughout South America, "The Motorcycle Diaries" is somewhat of a Latin "On the Road" with a moral conscious, and without the self serving ...