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A Family Affair

Published July 7, 2024

A Family Affair

Film info

  • Title A Family Affair
  • Director Richard LaGravenese
  • Year 2024
  • Run time 1hr 54m
  • Genres Romance, Comedy
  • Tagline A motherf*er of a love story

The only thing worse than being the assistant to a high-maintenance movie star who doesn’t take you seriously? Finding out he’s smitten with your mom.

Live blog

Time Comment
3:05 That traffic jam stress is real.
6:13 “You deserve to be fired.” “Then fire me.” “No.”
12:02 Fun and interesting things in the grocery store, I like this game.
16:30 It’s not a very good security gate if you can just climb over it like that. It’s basically a ladder.
23:59 “I quit my job. I quit Chris.”
32:53 I don’t like tequila but I want to day-drink tequila with Zefron.
41:43 “You’re not Jack and Rose, just get out of the car.”
50:14 “I think I’m trying to impress you, and I know I don’t.”
57:57 Love this family but they all use the phone far more than any real people do.
1:07:26 Having a raging argument in front of a polar bear.
1:10:56 Cute the way he said ’love you’. Eek!
1:20:11 Damn it being a Christmas movie in the middle.
1:37:55 “Your happiness doesn’t take anything away from me.”

Thoughts

We’ve not had the best run of Netflix movies recently, so took a deep breath going into this but thankfully, it was great! Love the characters, the relationships between the three and how they evolve and develop. Joey King was great as a selfish but relatable character who starts to thaw by the end. Also nice to see an older actress with a younger actor for a change, not that it had any reflection on the plot. The only annoyance was that Christmas popped up in the middle, and if I’d known that, I might have saved it for closer to December. But definitely worth a watch.

Rating: 4 / 5

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