Zara Ford is working for Chris Cole, a very demanding and over the top movie star who has lost a sense of reality. You could never prepare her for the fact that her mother Brooke Harwood ends up in a very unexpected romance with him.
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Zara had hit breaking point with her job working and doing pretty much everything for Chris, still holding onto a promise that she could move into a better role within the movie business. However, running around after him and doing his shopping was not the direction she saw her life going in at all. After a dramatic argument she decides to quit and this leads Chris to go to her home and meets her mother Brooke.
I guess it is a total nightmare of your mother ending up with your boss right? Well, just add in that she is older than this movie star and he has moves that Zara knows all about. It certainly creates a difficult situation, but we also actually feel sorry for Brooke when we learn that her marriage was not as good as Zara thought with memories of her now deceased father. The addition of Leila Ford created some nice scenes, with both her daughter in law and granddaughter.
The issues though? Mainly it doesn’t help that ‘A Family Affair’ has come only a couple of months after ‘The Idea of You’ and it realy does just feel all too familiar and the same in so many ways. A famous man and an older woman, the daughter not being happy about it. I guess in terms of the age gap we have always been used to seeing the older men with the younger women, a constant within Hollywood, so I guess we can appreciate that it is perfectly ok this way round.
I felt as though out of the cast that Kathy Bates was a real standout and the reason this managed to scrape two stars instead of one. Nicole Kidman is decent enough as usual, Zac Efron goes all in as the prima donna movie star and Joey King is a bit too whinny in this one.
