The newly released Netflix rom/com, A FAMILY AFFAIR starring Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron is so bad it's actually watchable bad. I don't recommend watching this lackluster love story. I'm giving you warning, if you start watching this atrocious affair, you're likely to be absconded by how ridiculous it is and waste your time in disbelief. There's no chemistry there between Efron and Kidman. Efron plays Cole, a superhero movie star. Kidman plays Brooke, a Pulitzer Prize winning author and mother to Zara (Joey King) who has been Cole's assistant for two years. Cole is an SOB to work for and runs Zara ragged running his errands and bullies her with the disingenuous promise of mentoring her filmmaking career. Cole is also notorious for breaking hearts left and right but mitigating the blow with a parting gift to his former partners of Cartier diamonds earrings. Zara who banters like the Energizer Bunny on speed is exhausting to listen to and not the sympathetic, hardworking intern who gets burned. It's a wonder Zara managed to remain Cole's overworked and under appreciated gal Friday for two years. But, when enough was enough she quit in a huff. Cole realizes how much he relies on her and goes to where she lives to win her back. Just 24, Zara lives at home with her mom but isn't home when Cole comes calling. Cole just lets himself and then tells Brooke brandishing a large candlestick, "the door was open and I'm a movie star." Cole asks if he can wait for Zara. Brooke being a good hostess gets bombed on booze with Cole. Their lips lock and their bodies collide inside the boudoir where Zara walks in without knocking. Zara freaks out, her mom sneaks out to be with Cole again and the mother/daughter/movie star love triangle should get lost in the Bermuda Triangle forever. Kidman looks old enough to be Efron's mother and neither looks credible or comely on screen. Efron looks like an orange skinned Hulk. Kidman needs to quit putting filler in her frozen looking face filmed using a soft-filter. King as Zara was too annoying, the "romantic" montage cloying and cringe worthy moments ongoing. Bad acting, dreadful script, A FAMILY AFFAIR aired dirty linen which needed to stay hidden. The rare, redeemable moments came from the incomparable Kathy Bates who played grandma to Zara and mother-in-law to Brooke until her son died. Anyone calling this movie anything but awful has lied.
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