Director: Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Late fatherhood arrives all at once for the title character of Goodrich, a comedy-drama that finds Michael Keaton relearning how to raise young children just as his adult daughter starts questioning her own life choices.
What is Goodrich about?
Andy Goodrich has spent decades coasting through fatherhood the second time around, running his gallery business and leaving most of the parenting of his young twins to his much younger wife. When she abruptly checks into rehab and leaves him with the kids, Andy is forced to call on his grown daughter from his first marriage for help, even though their relationship has long been strained by his absence during her own childhood. As the two of them juggle school runs, business troubles, and old resentments, Andy has to confront how differently he behaved as a young father compared to the exhausted, more present man he is becoming now. The film moves between comic chaos at home and quieter scenes of reckoning, following a man who is running out of excuses just as he's running out of time to change.
Cast & crew
Michael Keaton plays Andy with a mix of weary charm and genuine self-doubt, anchoring the film's shifts between light comedy and family drama. Mila Kunis plays his daughter, giving voice to the accumulated frustration of growing up with an absent father, while Carmen Ejogo, Andie MacDowell, and Kevin Pollak fill out the circle of people navigating Andy's second chance at parenting. Writer-director Hallie Meyers-Shyer keeps the tone grounded, favoring lived-in family friction over broad gags.
Context & significance
Goodrich was released in 2024 as a wholly American production, written and directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer. It sits within a familiar tradition of Los Angeles-set family comedies that use a late-life crisis to examine generational parenting differences, contrasting the hands-off fatherhood of one era with the more demanding expectations placed on parents today.
Where & how to watch
Goodrich can be watched on K-Time with a free account login, and the page describing it is open to read without signing in. K-Time carries the film with a Farsi-dubbed audio track and Persian subtitles, built into a browsing experience designed in Farsi for the Iranian diaspora community.