GOODRICH ★★★ (M) 111 minutes As a young man, Michael Keaton starred in the hit comedy Mr Mom as a reluctant house-husband obliged to vacuum and shop for groceries while his wife goes to work, a hilarious role reversal in the eyes of 1980s Hollywood. How much has changed since? The question remains open in Hallie Meyers-Shyer’s Goodrich , with Keaton as Andy Goodrich, a workaholic Los Angeles gallery owner slipping into potential irrelevance (Keaton is 73, although youthful enough to pull off a character younger by a decade or more). Michael Keaton play Andy Goodrich, who must care for his young twins (played by Jacob Kopera and Vivien Lyra Blair) in Goodrich.
Mr Goodrich has a lot on his plate, even before his wife (Laura Benanti) informs him over the phone she’s leaving him and going into rehab, making him the primary carer for their nine-year-old twins (Vivien Lyra Blair and Jacob Kopera). In between learning about basic household tasks such as boiling spaghetti, he still has a boutique gallery to run – and other relationships crying out for attention, notably with Grace (Mila Kunis), his adult daughter from a previous marriage, who’s about to become a mother. All up, there are a lot of corny, old-fashioned elements in this slice of upmarket life, from the rippling arpeggios of Christopher Willis’ score to the big emotional speeches where the characters tell us how they really feel.
Some scenes are simply clumsy, such as a visit to a feminist poetry night wh.
