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ON THE ROCKS
\nA24
\nReviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten
\nDirector: Sofia Coppola
\nWriter: Sofia Coppola
\nCast: Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, Marlon Wayans, Jessica Henwick, Jenny Slate, Barbara Bain
\nScreened at: Critics\u2019 link, NYC, 10\/15\/20
\nOpens: October 23, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Human beings are a sociable lot, unable to cope with loneliness for long stretches. But there are distinct ways that we socialize. Introverts have something going for them. They listen, and oh do we like people who listen. They are better in one-to-one relationships and, according to the clich\u00e9, they might rather read a book than stay too long at a boisterous party. Extraverts are more superficial. They\u2019re back-slappers. They celebrate life boldly; they\u2019re the life of the party. And while most of us lie on a spectrum making us neither extreme introverts nor dyed-in-the-wool extraverts, extraverts have more fun.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t believe me? Take a look at the character Felix, played by Bill Murray in Sofia Coppola\u2019s \u201cOn the Rocks.\u201d He can talk his way out of a speeding ticket, jumping out of his antique Italian sports car and, wouldn\u2019t you know\u2014he is familiar with the officer\u2019s dad? \u201cHow is he doing?\u201d and the like. He even introduces his daughter Laura (Rashida Jones), his passenger, to each of the men in blue, and has the two cops not only forget that they should ticket speeders, but actually help push until his stalled engine runs again.<\/p>\n

Laura, whose eyes roll a some of the things her dad does, but deep down she may be like the rest of us, I\u2019m guessing the majority of sons of daughters who would like their dads to be more like Felix than like their own loving, lovable, but staid givers of life. He can go with Laura to Manzanillo and be the aforementioned life of the party by singing to an appreciative audience accompanied by a local on a guitar. But he can be bookish as well, enlightening Laura about the only breed of monkey in which the females dominate. And how way back when, men, crawling on all fours, would be attracted to women by their butts, and how the breast symbolizes the paleolithic rear today, which explains the hold on men.<\/p>\n

The plot is screwball, but not the far-out slapstick that would often find Marlon Wayans in his m\u00e9ti\u00e9r. Here Wayans performs in the role of Dean, who may not yet be a rich as his father-in-law but he\u2019s getting there, affording a loft in Tribeca. By the way the whole picture puts New York City in there as a character and makes you wonder why anybody would want to leave, Covid or otherwise. Laura thinks he\u2019s cheating on her, tells her dad, and presto. The late middle-aged playboy is on it, following Dean around the city, even persuading Laura to join him on a flight to Manzanillo, Mexico where her husband is having a meeting that includes some women colleagues.<\/p>\n

Here is not the place to reveal the answer to the big question: is he or isn\u2019t he? The answer is not the important thing. Coppola, who made good use of Bill Murray in \u201cLost in Translation\u201d (a fading movie star bonds with a woman in Tokyo) and was at the helm in \u201cThe Virgin Suicides\u201d (men become obsessed with five sisters who are ruled strictly by their religious parents), provides continuous amusement with the help of two girls playing Felix\u2019s granddaughters. And Marlon Wayans convinces in a serious role of a successful businessman. For all the riches he represents, Bill Murray remains happily in his signature attitude: one of the great examples of actors entertaining with dry humor.<\/p>\n

96 minutes. \u00a9 2020 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/p>\n

Story \u2013 B+
\nActing \u2013 B+
\nTechnical \u2013 A-
\nOverall \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ON THE ROCKS A24 Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Sofia Coppola Writer: Sofia Coppola Cast: Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, Marlon Wayans, Jessica Henwick, Jenny Slate, Barbara Bain Screened at: Critics\u2019 link, NYC, 10\/15\/20 Opens: October 23, 2020 Human beings are a sociable lot, unable to cope with 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