Netflix today dropped the official trailer (below) for the upcoming rom-com, A Family Affair starring Nicole Kidman (Expats, Big Little Lies), Zac Efron (The Icon Claw, The Greatest Showman), and Joey King (We Were the Lucky Ones, The Kissing Booth films). The film will premiere globally on the platform June 28th.
Written by Carrie Solomon (The Good Fight) and directed by Richard LaGravenese (P.S. I Love You, Freedom Writers), it also stars Liza Koshy (Liza on Demand, Players) and Kathy Bates (Richard Jewell, American Horror Story).
A Family Affair synopsis: “A surprising romance kicks off comic consequences for a young woman, her mother and her movie star boss as they face the complications of love, sex, and identity.”
I saw in it a coming-of-age story for three different characters at three different stages of their lives. I was going through my own sort of transition into what Gail Sheehy called Second Adulthood, where after you’ve fulfilled all your expectations and you’ve been what you need to be for everyone else, and you’ve achieved something and children are grown and all that stuff, you get a chance of being who you are and the things that you lost along the way.
Director Richard Lagravenese tells Tudum
Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum (Anyone But You, Damsel) serve as producers with Michelle Morrissey (The Curse of La Llorona, Moonshot), Alyssa Altman (Anyone But You, Panic), and Solomon as executive producers.
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