Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron gives a knock-out performance in the new comedy-drama from UP IN THE AIR and JUNO director, four-time Academy Award® nominee Jason Reitman. TULLY is a brilliant, refreshingly modern and surprising film offering an honest and entertaining look at the funny-but-true realities of parenthood, family relationships and female friendship. From renowned filmmakers and with a stellar cast, TULLY is sure to get people talking!

When Marlo (Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD) is gifted a night nanny by her brother (Mark Duplass, SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED) she is hesitant to the extravagance at first, but soon comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully (Mackenzie Davis, BLADE RUNNER 2049).

Academy Award® nominated director Jason Reitman (UP IN THE AIR, JUNO) and Academy Award® winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (JUNO) reunite for this brilliant and refreshingly modern new comedy-drama, in cinemas nationally May 10.

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Cody’s script about an aging Lita Ford-type rocker who fritters her life away in rock’n’roll while neglecting her responsibility to her three children has little going for it. The story has Ricki making a belated attempt to reconnect with her adult children after her daughter suffers a messy, emotionally damaging divorce. The tension that exists between Ricki and her cynical and sardonic children, and her hard working well-to-do ex-husband and his new wife, is excruciating for the most part. There’s just no getting around the obvious fact that Ricki has made this bed for herself and her family rightly hates her for it. Her feeble attempts to make it right are both sad and pathetic and watching her do it is torturous for the audience. A strange mix for a film which presents itself as lightweight entertainment.

The one pleasant surprise in the movie is the inclusion of Rick Springfield. It’s easy to be cynical about plucking an 80’s pop music heartthrob out of nowhere to play an older version of himself. It seems an unabashed attempt to attract a certain demographic to the movie, and it probably is, but the truth is Springfield gives a heart felt, albeit limited, performance – indeed, he is the heart of the movie.

Streep is unimpressive; merely dishing up a stereotypical cliché of her character and it’s painful to watch her vaudeville performance. Kevin Kline is Kevin Kline.

Finally the film attempts to lambast us with ‘feel good’ ending but after all we’ve endured, it stretches credulity to believe that a happy family could be instantly born through the power of music alone.

Stuart Jamieson
www.rickiandtheflashmovie.com