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- 2024
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 1 h 51 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 1 h 51 m
Summary A surprising romance kicks off comic consequences for a young woman, her mother and her movie star boss as they face the complications of love, sex, and identity. [Netflix]
Directed By: Richard LaGravenese
Written By: Carrie Solomon
- 2024
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 1 h 51 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 1 h 51 m
A Family Affair
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4.8
Summary A surprising romance kicks off comic consequences for a young woman, her mother and her movie star boss as they face the complications of love, sex, and identity. [Netflix]
Directed By: Richard LaGravenese
Written By: Carrie Solomon
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Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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22% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
43
22% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
57% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
22% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
With A Family Affair, Efron picks up where “17 Again” left off, and it’s a delight to see this former teen heartthrob back in a similar mode.
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 User Ratings
4.8
25% Positive
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5 Ratings
35% Mixed
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40% Negative
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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As a parody of Hollywood excess and narcissism it is frequently laugh-out-loud; as a wannabe Hallmark Channel holiday movie—a segue that is nothing short of baffling—it is less than amusing, except in the notion that the project got waylaid on its way to Christmas.
Even setting the expectations bar at a modest height, though, the movie doesn’t quite clear it – another case, in rom-com terms, where the idea of them, as a marquee matchup, proves superior to the execution.
The initial setup is great, the Ephronesque excitable phone conversation montage is tolerable, but the cliched breakup and makeup plot transition clanks.
Hilarity does not ensue. The romance has its barely believable moments.
Directed by Richard LaGravenese, every moment in A Family Affair sits there as lifelessly as Gerard Butler’s character in LaGravenese’s most successful movie, P.S. I Love You. And that’s not just the fault of the expressionless romantic leads, regrettably cast opposite each other in a way that makes the whole film feel like Joey King’s vacation to the uncanny valley.
By Jacob Oller
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A decent set but the the major frontload of the comedy in this lead to pretty dreadful final hour of this.
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Just last month Anne Hathaway played a woman falling for a younger man in The Idea of You (which is better than this one). In less than 30 days, Nicole Kidman takes on the role of beautiful older woman who falls for her daughter's action-star boss (Zac Efron). The expected complications occur as daughter (Joey King) struggles with the age difference and awkwardness of the relationship. There's nothing new in the plot, while the uninventive situations and limp dialogue drag down any possibility of charm. Kidman is expectedly lovely, while Efron looks like an artificial leading man (his face doesn't look natural anymore). Their chemistry is nothing special and neither has any opportunity to be funny. King is the only one who has any real comedy potential, but she isn't given anything to work with. Despite the star power, there's absolutely nothing about this film that makes it worth watching. Even the title is bland and unoriginal.
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