In 2021's dreadful "There's Always Hope" obnoxious student Hannah Chin follows author dad Colm Meaney to his Portuguese villa after mum Kate Ashfield leaves him for smarmy John Light. While the hypocritical Chin bosses everyone about (talking way more than listening), bland tv-standard melodrama unfolds at a painfully slow pace. It's performances are abysmal (especially the dire Chin - tho Meaney's actual daughter Brenda Meaney isn't TOO bad) but the main blame sits with writer / director Tim Lewiston who absolutely goofed it - should he have quit after his only other movie (2012's far superior "The Hot Potato")? It's a stinking turd. Flush it.