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Despite the accustomed splendid performance from Michael Keaton in the starring role, a 2024 character study called Goodrich never quite works as it should due to a confusing screenplay that offers backstory but doesn't really explain a lot of what's going on in this guy's present.
Keaton plays Andy Goodrich, a gallery owner who gets a call from his wife, Naomi in the middle of the night stating that she has checked into rehab and is leaving him. Naomi begs Andy to take care of their kids, Billie and Moze, and finds himself leaning a lot on Grace (Mila Kunis), his grown, pregnant daughter from his first marriage,
The creative force behind this film is a relative inexperienced director and writer named Hallie Meyers-Sheyer, who has provided us with a really likable central character involved in some squirm-worthy situations and making some squirm-worthy decisions. Even though I understand the impulse, I was troubled with Andy lying to his twins regarding their mother being in rehab, the way they found out was a little hard to swallow. He also keeps expecting Grace to drop whatever she's doing tp help him with Billie and Moze. We're not surprised when it's revealed that Grace is harboring resentment with her father because she never saw him as a kid. I love the scene where she is babysitting Billie and Moze and she doesn't have a clue what to say to them, but works very hard not to let her resentment toward her father to spill over to her step siblings.
The first half of the film is spent thoroughly establishing the fact that Andy doesn't have a clue what's going on with his children because he's always at the gallery. It's assumed that his business must be going gangbusters, but it's not. He has accrued some major debt and employees are quitting on him right and left. That's what was confusing about this movie. We understand that he was a neglectful dad, so why didn't all that neglect manifest an amazing career? His attempts to mend fences with Grace and his accidental friendship with a gay single dad were pretty much a waste of screentime.
Michael Keaton is always watchable and this movie is no exception and really liked the way he worked with Mila Kunis. Kevin Pollak and Michael Urie also make the most of their screentime as a co-worker of Andy's and the gay single dad he meets at Billie and Moze's school. There's also a lovely cameo by Andie McDowell as Grace's mother. McDowell reunites with Keaton for the first time since Multiplicity. If you're a Keaton fan, it's definitely worth checking out.
Despite the accustomed splendid performance from Michael Keaton in the starring role, a 2024 character study called Goodrich never quite works as it should due to a confusing screenplay that offers backstory but doesn't really explain a lot of what's going on in this guy's present.
Keaton plays Andy Goodrich, a gallery owner who gets a call from his wife, Naomi in the middle of the night stating that she has checked into rehab and is leaving him. Naomi begs Andy to take care of their kids, Billie and Moze, and finds himself leaning a lot on Grace (Mila Kunis), his grown, pregnant daughter from his first marriage,
The creative force behind this film is a relative inexperienced director and writer named Hallie Meyers-Sheyer, who has provided us with a really likable central character involved in some squirm-worthy situations and making some squirm-worthy decisions. Even though I understand the impulse, I was troubled with Andy lying to his twins regarding their mother being in rehab, the way they found out was a little hard to swallow. He also keeps expecting Grace to drop whatever she's doing tp help him with Billie and Moze. We're not surprised when it's revealed that Grace is harboring resentment with her father because she never saw him as a kid. I love the scene where she is babysitting Billie and Moze and she doesn't have a clue what to say to them, but works very hard not to let her resentment toward her father to spill over to her step siblings.
The first half of the film is spent thoroughly establishing the fact that Andy doesn't have a clue what's going on with his children because he's always at the gallery. It's assumed that his business must be going gangbusters, but it's not. He has accrued some major debt and employees are quitting on him right and left. That's what was confusing about this movie. We understand that he was a neglectful dad, so why didn't all that neglect manifest an amazing career? His attempts to mend fences with Grace and his accidental friendship with a gay single dad were pretty much a waste of screentime.
Michael Keaton is always watchable and this movie is no exception and really liked the way he worked with Mila Kunis. Kevin Pollak and Michael Urie also make the most of their screentime as a co-worker of Andy's and the gay single dad he meets at Billie and Moze's school. There's also a lovely cameo by Andie McDowell as Grace's mother. McDowell reunites with Keaton for the first time since Multiplicity. If you're a Keaton fan, it's definitely worth checking out.