Review of On the Rocks

On the Rocks (2020)
Turns out as a comedy but figuring out where it was going was shaky.
24 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This very recently became available on Apple TV so my wife and I watched it as soon as it did, streaming via Roku.

This is your basic dad and adult daughter caper, she is happily married with two kids in New York but feeling a bit underappreciated by her hard working husband. When she shares an incident with her dad he decides the husband must be cheating and sets out to have him followed. The two of them even follow him to Mexico where he is traveling for business.

The dad is wealthy playboy Felix, played by 70-ish Bill Murray and he does it well. The daughter is 44-ish Rashida Jones as Laura, an author unable to get unstuck. Her husband is played well by 48-ish Marlon Wayans as Dean. While the movie in general is executed well and the acting appropriate, I found the story a bit too far-fetched and thus had trouble getting into it. My reaction when it was over was sort of "so what?"

Just a very inconsequential movie that is somewhat entertaining.
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