We really liked this dramedy, not the slapstick we expected, about a 60-something widow who moves from New York to LA to be near her depressed daughter. Susan Sarandon and Rose Byrne are great in their lack of chemistry as a pushy mom and a daughter learning to push back. They were last blogged in the Melissa McCarthy comedies Tammy and Spy, respectively. J.K. Simmons (won an Oscar for an abusive bastard in Whiplash) joins us in the second act as a really nice guy.
Adding to the cast are Michael McKean (after he was profiled in Whatever Works he gained more TV credits, including four episodes of Family Tree and 21 of Better Call Saul), Cecily Strong (hosted last year's White House Correspondents' Dinner in addition to her 84 episodes of Saturday Night Live), the hilarious Brit Lucy Punch (last in Into the Woods), and Jason Ritter (most recently in these pages for The Perfect Family).
Director/writer Lorene Scafaria (covered in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World) has put together an entertaining story of a dysfunctional family that we saw four weeks ago. Critics on Rotten Tomatoes are averaging a respectable 84% and audiences merely 70. You can check it out when it's released on DVD in September, 2016.
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