Hallie Meyers-Shyer, center, writer/director of “Goodrich,” poses with cast members Michael Keaton, left, and Mila Kunis, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis went from strangers to father and daughter in short order for the new film “Goodrich.” Before cameras started rolling, they were essentially only able to meet once. It was a dinner with their writer-director Hallie Meyers-Shyer, who just had a feeling they’d be great together. And before they knew it they were off to the races, embodying two people with a lifetime of hurt behind them, wondering if a real relationship is even possible at this point: He’s attempting to reconcile his absence in her youth and find a place in her life now, while parenting young twins from his second marriage; She’s preparing to have a child of her own and wondering if she can trust her dad to be there this time. But neither were particularly worried. The script, they said, was just that good. “Hallie’s writing was so honest and genuine and never felt forced,” Kunis said. “It never felt fake and never felt anything other than the story of these people. Everything made sense. The dynamic was real. The relationships felt real.” Meyers-Shyer is the daughter of filmmakers Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer, who not only got a film education at home, but also frequented her mother’s sets and even appeared in several films as an extra. She made her directorial debut in 2017 with the Reese Witherspoon romantic comedy “Home Again” and started writing “Goodrich” soon after. She’d been thinking about a lot of things, about parenting in different decades and what that’s like for an older father with young and adult kids, and about a complicated father-daughter relationship. “In my personal life, my father remarried and had a second set of kids. And that was complicated for me,” Meyers-Shyer said. “I felt like if that was something I was struggling with, it might be something other people struggle with.” But perhaps the biggest inspiration was Keaton himself, an […]
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