{"id":102176,"date":"2022-10-19T23:15:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T23:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/george-clooney-and-julia-roberts-might-want-a-refund-on-this-ticket-to-paradise\/"},"modified":"2022-10-19T23:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T23:15:01","slug":"george-clooney-and-julia-roberts-might-want-a-refund-on-this-ticket-to-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/george-clooney-and-julia-roberts-might-want-a-refund-on-this-ticket-to-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney and Julia Roberts might want a refund on this Ticket To Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(from left) George Clooney and Julia Roberts in Ol Parker’s Ticket To Paradise.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

It would be easy to shrug away Ticket to Paradise<\/em> as something mild and airy that goes down smooth\u2014an easy pick for an airplane watch, or if you’re ever stuck in a hotel with basic cable. But you will find no such pussyfooting here. This movie stinks, truly stinks, and the fact that it had the component parts to be a winner makes it all the more frustrating.<\/p>\n

George Clooney and Julia Roberts, the last among a certain kind of Hollywood A-lister, play estranged couple David and Georgia. He is an architect, or something, because we see him stomping around a construction site with a hardhat, and it’s unlikely that he’s tying steel. We see Georgia at her enormous LA gallery, mocking the modern art that she’s selling. (\u201cI think it’s upside down,\u201d she says. I believe I saw a similar gag on The Flintstones<\/em>.) The point is they are both super successful, but we never see them talking about their work and they’ve got the time to disappear for a while without checking in or taking meetings or anything. I can barely do that and I write about movies on the internet, for God’s sake, that’s a notch below dog catcher.<\/p>\n

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Their daughter Lily (Kaitlyn Dever) has just graduated from law school, so as a gift to herself before starting work at a big firm she’s taking her best pal Wren (Billie Lourd) on a trip to Bali. (Wren is bringing an enormous supply of multi-colored condoms.) While there, Lily becomes enchanted by a hunky seaweed farmer (it happens!) named Gede (Maxime Bouttier), and soon thereafter she sends a message back to her parents: I ‘m getting married.<\/p>\n

While David and Georgia truly can’t stand to be in the same room together, they agree to present a united front\u2014they will fly to Bali and try and knock some sense into their daughter. They concoct the strategy to appear <\/em>to be cool with the decision, but sow seeds of doubt.<\/p>\n