A Family Affair follows Zara Ford (King), a young woman who discovers that her single mother Brooke (Nicole Kidman) is having an affair with her self-absorbed, movie star boss Chris Cole (Zac Efron). “A Family Affair” marks the third instance of Efron and Kidman sharing the big screen, the first being “The Paperboy” in 2012 followed by “The Butler” releasing next year.
Brooke (Nicole Kidman) heads on a similar journey throughout the film, but she’s not alone. Her daughter will have to come of age in her own way, navigating her professional life as it begins to uncomfortably intersect with her personal one. “I love Zara’s constant frustration,” King says. “She cracks me up because she’s self-aware enough to know she’s an angsty adult but also has a great sense of humor and absolutely adores the people that drive her the craziest.” Of course, it’ll take a bit of time to get to that point of adoration and through all the crazy.
A Family Affair is an American romantic comedy film directed by Richard LaGravenese and written by Carrie Solomon. The film stars Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Joey King, Liza Koshy, and Kathy Bates. This is 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.
A Family Affair was scheduled to be released by Netflix on November 17, 2023. However, the release of the film was postponed due to the impact of the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike in the United States on the film’s promotion. It was later rescheduled to be released on June 28, 2024.
Throughout the trailer, Kidman and Efron can be seen growing closer as King’s Zara continues to view it as a “gross sexcapade thing.” “I love being your mother more than anything in this world. But I’m starting to feel things I never thought I would feel again. Not since your father,” Kidman says. “No! You did not just say that,” King yells in response.
For Lagravenese, the story of the film was more familiar than you might think — and not because he used to work for a petulant action hero. “I saw in it a coming-of-age story for three different characters at three different stages of their lives,” Lagravenese says. “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.”
A Family Affair (2024)
Directed by: Richard LaGravenese
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Joey King, Liza Koshy, Kathy Bates, Shirley MacLaine, Melissa Kennemore, Olivia Macklin, Gissette Valentin, Sherry Cola, Cora Maple Lindell
Screenplay by: Carrie Solomon
Production Design by: Desma Murphy
Cinematography by: Don Burgess
Film Editing by: Melissa Bretherton
Costume Design by: Luis Sequeira
Set Decoration by: Edward McLoughlin
Art Direction by: Artie Contreras:
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content, partial nudity and some strong language.
Distributed by: Netflix
Release Date: June 28, 2024
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