Separated and on bad terms, two separated parents, David (Clooney) and Georgia Cotton (Roberts) are forced to reunite for their only beloved daughter, Lily (Kaitlyn Dever), who still inevitably unites them. David is a successful and veteran super architect, tombeur de femme, while Georgia is an important gallery owner involved in an unlikely love affair with a pilot who is younger than her (and that certainly wouldn’t be a limit) but underwhelming. Lily, on the other hand, is a girl like many others who, during her postgraduate vacation in Bali, met Gede (Maxime Bouttier), a more than wealthy seaweed farmer, handsome and friendly, and with parents just as perfect as the island they live on. For the couple, still full of resentment and ready to speak up at the slightest push, they have a common mission: to prevent the smitten daughter and newly graduated law graduate from throwing her life away for a summer romance. Will they make it?
George Clooney and Julia Roberts have worked together on four films,
“Confessions of a Dangerous Mind”, “Ocean’s Eleven”, “Ocean’s Twelve” and in the thriller “Money Monster”
, the latest in chronological order, published six years ago. The two actors have a long friendship and told the NY Times how difficult it was to film the kissing scene: “It took 80 takes to shoot the scene of our only kiss in the movie,” Clooney said, while Roberts remarked, “It actually lasted 79 takes of us laughing and then one of us kissed.”
“Our roles were clearly written for us by Ol Parker, who originally named the characters Georgia and Julian,” revealed George Clooney, admitting wryly, “I haven’t done a romantic comedy since The Day Just in Case. , but I figured if Jules is ready, it might be fun…”.
Principal filming took place in Queensland, Australia between November 2021 and February 2022 and halted in January due to a surge in Covid-19 cases. Julia Roberts said Clooney kept her company when she was forced to separate from her husband Danny Moder and their three children to move to Australia to produce the film: “The Clooneys saved me from utter loneliness and despair . a mason jar and it was the longest time I’ve lived apart from my family. I don’t think I’ve spent that much time alone since I was 25.” Meanwhile, before returning to romantic comedy, Roberts was also the protagonist of the TV series “Gaslit” about Watergate in 2022 -Scandal.