On Netflix Nicole Kidman falls in love with Zac Efron, and more than A Family Affair, it’s a mess

Two, three minutes after the start A family affair One already senses that what will follow, perhaps, maybe, in one of those, will not be worth it. But it is Nicole Kidmanthis Zac Efronwho may not be a great actor, but when good directors get hold of him they bring out more than just pectorals, there is Joey King, Kathy Bates…

But not. It’s another mess in the form of a comedy Netflix.

All of which leads us to think what the actress of Eyes wide Shut, The hours and All for a dream to accept being Brooke Hardwood, the mother of the protagonist who falls in love with her daughter’s boss. The issue that the film seems to question is the age difference between one character and another. Kidman, in real life, He is 21 years older than Zac Efron.

Or maybe one of those, Nicole was handed the script, she saw that it would be directed by Richard LaGravenese, who had written the one Fisherman of illusionsby Terry Gilliam, for which he was nominated for an Oscar.

They say that the nominations cannot be taken out, nor can they be asked to be returned, because if not, the scriptwriter of The bridges of Madison, Water for elephants and Love has two faces I should say thank you, but they were wrong.

But that film that catapulted him to recognition, Fisherman of Illusionswith Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges, is miles away from what it is A family affaira boring comedy, with some sex, confusions that are easy to unravel and performances that promise several nominations… for the Razzie Awards, for the worst of the year.

Written by newcomer Carrie Solomon, A family affair It is set in Hollywood and tells a multi-generational story, with Zara Ford (Joey King, from Bullet Trainwith Brad Pitt) dreaming of being more than just the assistant of Chris Cole (Efron), a Hollywood superstar who, if we have to find a relationship, let’s say that he is like the Zoolander by Ben Stiller.

Zara wants to become a film producer. She’s tired of picking up Cole’s clothes from the dry cleaners, helping him choose scripts (she tells him to throw away Die Hardbecause it is a mixture of Of illusion also lives with Maximum speed), go shopping alone at the supermarket (so that fans don’t recognise him), or buy her the expensive earrings he always uses to prevent his break-ups from becoming a scandal.

But when she decides to quit her job, a romance arises more or less spontaneously between her mother, who has not been with another man since her husband died, and her boss, who is a womanizer.

It’s funny, or at least it allows you to smile, that Kathy Bates, who kidnapped the writer who composed James Caan in Miseryis the literary editor of Kidman’s character. And also, her ex-mother-in-law.

Kidman and Efron had already acted together in a film, and even walked the stairs and red carpet in Cannes with The Paperboy either Dangerous loves. Over there The germ of the young man’s sexual fantasies with a mature woman was already there.And here there is not a hint of eroticism, of humor, but rather a disconnection in the rhythms that is impossible to save, not even from the editing.

Here’s a colorful fact: Joey King voices him in the original version of Despicable Me 4 to Poppy, who is dubbed here by María Becerra.

Comedy. United States, 2024. Original title: “A Family Affair”. 111′, SAM 13. Of: Richard LaGravenese. With: Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Joey King, Kathy Bates, Liza Koshy. Available in: Netflix.