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Goodrich Feels More Like a Therapy Session Than a Movie
The new film from Hallie Meyers-Shyer stars Michael Keaton as a genial bad dad.
He’s now on friendly terms with his elder daughter from his first marriage, Grace (Mila Kunis), but approaches his promotion to primary caretaker of the precocious 9-year-old twins from his second with the cluelessness of someone disengaged enough to forget that one of the pair has a nut allergy. But Meyers-Shyer doesn’t actually pause to appreciate the sumptuousness of the carefully decorated house Andy lives in, or the art that is his all-consuming passion but that the camera barely spares the time to take in, or even the dinners he is constantly leaving his children behind to attend. For someone who has supposedly come up in the art world, Andy sure is inexplicably perplexed by the idea of rehab, and by the gay dad (Michael Urie) he befriends at the twins’ school, and by the woo-woo leanings of the singer (Carmen Ejogo) he approaches in hopes of being able to handle her artist mother’s estate.
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