Laura (Rashida Jones) begins to suspect that her husband (Marlon Wayans) is having an affair so she reaches out to her father (Bill Murray), a known cheater, to help her investigate.
It's a bit like asking a thief if someone is stealing.
There's nothing specifically wrong with the movie; it just seems like a bunch of rich people with no real problems inventing things so they don't get bored. It's Sofia Coppola, so I suppose that tracks. Nobody in the film is particularly sympathetic. Laura is the architect of her own problems because she's afraid to talk to her husband so she's already decided that he's cheating and is looking to corroborate, not absolve. Her father is incapable of admitting that he's pathologically lonely and is willing to enact scheme after scheme to keep Laura hanging out with him. And her husband isn't innocent, either. He is blithely ignoring every glaring issue because he doesn't want to see them. So nobody is right and everybody has their feelings hurt and who wants to see that in a movie?
If for some reason you do, it's streaming on AppleTV. Jessica Henwick and Jenny Slade have minor parts, and TV legend Barbara Bain has a small cameo. It's not enough of a reason to watch this, though, as all of those women have better roles elsewhere.
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