After getting to see Michael Keaton reprise his role as Beetlejuice later this year, the Oscar nominee will be shifting to something much harder than trying to come back from the afterlife: parenthood.
Keaton stars alongside Mila Kunis in “Goodrich,” a heartwarming dramedy written and directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer (“Home Again”) in which Keaton needs to learn to be a father to two different sets of kids at very different ages.
According to the synopsis, Keaton plays Andy Goodrich, “whose life is upended when his wife and mother of their nine-year-old twins enters a 90-day rehab program, leaving him on his own with their young kids. In order to get by, he leans on the help of his adult daughter from his first marriage, Grace (Kunis), ultimately evolving into the father Grace never had.”
The first trailer for “Goodrich,” which you can watch below, shows Keaton trying to convince his kids he’s not actually as old as their grandmother, going to PTA conferences, and making a fool of himself at a group therapy session with Kunis. In one scene, we also see Kunis babysitting her two half-siblings and explaining why she refers to Goodrich as “her dad” rather than “our dad.”
“Well, I’m 27 years older than you, which is basically unheard of for siblings … except maybe in LA,” Kunis’ character jokes.
Also starring in “Goodrich” are Carmen Ejogo, Michael Urie, Kevin Pollak, Viven Lyra Blair, Nico Haraga, and Danny Deferrari, with Lauren Benanti and Andie MacDowell. The film was produced by Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Kevin Mann, and Dave Caplan, and both Keaton and Kunis are executive producers on the project alongside Amy Pascal.
“Goodrich” is the second feature for Meyers-Shyer, who previously directed “Home Again” with Reese Witherspoon. She’s from good filmmaking stock, too: her mother is Nancy Meyers and her father is Charles Shyer.
Ketchup Entertainment, which last year released Robert Rodriguez’s “Hypnotic” and Michel Franco’s “Memory,” is releasing “Goodrich” in theaters on October 18. Check out the first trailer below.
