Mack & Rita

[Opens Aug. 12 in theaters and played Aug. 10 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups.] After a reclusive, reserved, disillusioned, 30-year-old influencer and writer (Elizabeth Lail), who was close with her grandmother (Catherine Carlen), suffers from writer's block, and is being bugged by her agent (Patti Harrison), goes to Palm Springs for a wild weekend as the maid of honor for her best friend (Taylour Paige) at her bachelorette party and ends up turning into her 70-year-old future self (Diane Keaton) while visiting a spiritual regression guru (Simon Rex) in Katie Aselton's quirky, wacky, heartwarming, sporadically funny, unoriginal, star-dotted (Martin Short, Nicole Byer, Catherine Carlen, Paige Locke, and Sara Amini), 95-minute comedy, she finds herself gaining confidence as she spends time with a charming, dog-walking private wealth manager (Dustin Milligan) and a feisty, supportive group of elderly wine lovers (Lois Smith, Loretta Devine, Wendie Malick, and Amy Hill).
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