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Netflix's love machine goes limp with A Family Affair: KATE DENNETT snoozes through Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron's age-gap romance that isn't half as steamy as you'd expect


Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron last portrayed lovers 12 years ago in the buzzy crime drama The Paperboy, but sadly they've failed to make the same impact in their big romantic return to screens.

Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron last portrayed lovers 12 years ago in the buzzy crime drama The Paperboy, but sadly they've failed to make the same impact in their big romantic return to screens. Efron takes on the role of vain movie star Chris Cole, while Kidman portrays writer Brook Harwood, who is the mother of his long-suffering assistant Zara ( Joey King). After the steamy age-gap triumph that was Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine's The Idea of You, A Family Affair fails to live up to the same standards - and not even Nicole's star quality can save this streaming exclusive.

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