Directed by: Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Starring: Michael Keaton, Mila Kunis, Laura Benanti, Michael Urie, Kevin Pollak, Carmen Ejogo
Andy Goodrich (Keaton) is a workaholic Los Angeles art gallery owner with a wife and twins whose wife calls him one night to inform him she has checked into a rehab. Lotsa luck with the kids, she basically tells him, and the distraught Andy calls his pregnant adult daughter Grace (Kunis) to help him. The trouble is: Grace and Andy have a frosty relationship, mostly because of Andy's divorce from her mother. No points for guessing that Andy will figure it all out and have a better relationship with the kids he hardly knows.
Andy, though, isn't a bad man, just aloof because he devoted his life to a gallery which is now losing money and might go under if it is unable to attract artists. Andy attempts to lure the daughter of a former client to his gallery in hopes she will allow her mother's work to be displayed. This possibility grows to be more of a probability, but then it doesn't in a development that feels like a plot twist. Because Andy is generally a decent man, the dramatic tension of Goodrich is lost.
However, Michael Keaton still gives us an effective performance, making the most of his underwritten character. Kunis hits all the notes you would expect as his estranged daughter: Exasperated, frustrated, resentful, and then forgiving and reconciliation. She does all well, but Goodrich itself simply lacks anything to push against.
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