Goodrich is a reminder of the blessing that is Michael Keaton as both a dramatic and comedic actor. The film is a gift to him that reminds us how good he’s been all these years. And its fun to think he more-or-less started with Mr. Mom and he gets to play in the same sandbox all these years later.

The film stars Keaton as an older man with a pregnant daughter (Mila Kunis) from one marriage and nine year old twins from his second. When their mom puts herself into rehab, he has to adjust his busy life running an art gallery to become, yes, Mr. Mom all over again… plus a timer before he becomes Mr. Grandma. The film is about his life, his challenges, his family, and it’s lovely and moving and shut up you’re crying too.

Keaton is so damn good that it’s criminal he faded into the background for awhile. The more we could use Keaton doing three dimensional characters like this, the better we’d all be. He gives good “keeping it bottled up but leaking out anyway” face… plus he’s funny and overwhelmed, chaotic, and perplexed.

But that’s the film… warm, measured, and funny. There’s a moment almost at the very end where his nine year old daughter looks back at him with such joy, that I knew this flick was going super high in the ratings. Not sure why all the three stars… I must have seen a different, less lovely movie.

Mila Kunis is doing all three dimensions as well and I really enjoyed what I at first thought was going to be a simple daughter role. But, no, she was given room to act her butt off while reminding us how good she can be with the drama and the chuckles.

I loved that there’s so much detail and depth to the film… that it’s just not har-har the old guy is playing Mr. Mom again. Between the complicated relationship with Kunis, communicating with his children, the people at the gallery, his struggles running his business, and even just noticing how loving his daughter’s marriage is… there’s nuance and depth all over the place.

I really loved this lovely film and not just because Keaton is so good in it. Certainly he brings it all, but the script and other actors are doing everything they can to support the story. It’s a great and human film.

Score: 91