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Watching “Ticket to Paradise,” one can’t help but think of the famous James Stewart line from 1940’s “The Philadelphia Story.” It goes, “The prettiest sight in this fine, pretty world is the privileged class enjoying its privileges.”

To be clear, the privileged class in Ol Parker ’s frustratingly unexceptional rom-com doesn’t only consist of the story’s chief characters: successful architects, art dealers, and recent grads of a fancy college, with pockets deep enough to afford an extended luxury vacation in Bali. In this specific case, it also consists of two bona fide movie stars— George Clooney and Julia Roberts (you might have heard of them here and there)—having a ball with the well-earned privileges of their status as the-last-of-their-kind Hollywood superstars, while bickering their way through some bitter zingers and sarcastic gotchas.

In that regard, it certainly is a pretty sight, to witness two gorgeous, forever-charismatic silver screen royals unite against a breathtaking tropical backdrop (and in frothy promotional videos), with their gracefully aging visages front and center before the rest of us mortals. Sadly though, the loose link between “Ticket to Paradise” and George Cukor ’s screwball classic stop right there, at that aforementioned quote. And you should blame it on a dispiriting script that relies too heavily on its A-list actors’ magnetic presence alone, instead of bothering with a good story that we can root for.

So let’s jump to another quote from another film. At this stage, imagine this die-hard romantic-comedy devotee, throwing her jazz hands in the air and yelling like the late William Hurt in “ A History of Violence ”: “How do you f**k that up?” Indeed, how on earth do the effortless charms of Roberts and Clooney not yield the kind of rom-com we used to routinely get in the ‘90s? The issue is the second romantic tale that unfolds around them, one that doesn’t hit a single believable note. It belongs to Lily (a delightful Kaitlyn Dever in an underwritten part), who is the abovesaid college graduate on her way to a Bali vacation, with her fun and sexually very active female sidekick, Wren ( Billie Lourd ), and an invitation to join a top-shelf law firm on her return.

Soon enough, Lily decides to get married to the handsome seaweed farmer Gede ( Maxime Bouttier ) she’s somehow rapidly fallen in love with, after the laziest meet-cute sequence imaginable. (It’s more appropriate to call that scene just plain meet and drop the cute entirely.) So instead of enjoying her time with Wren, having some wild nights out, and returning home for the bright future that awaits—you know, like any intelligent young woman of her caliber would do—Lily dedicates her entire being to Gede. There is of course nothing wrong with love at first sight in life or in movies, the kind that this critic is shamelessly in favor of, especially in cinematic contexts. But to make the massive life decision of marriage and deciding to stay in Bali for it on a whim? Even the rugged ice harvester Kristoff of “ Frozen ” laughed at this idea: “You mean to tell me you got engaged to someone you just met that day?” And that was a Disney movie in a 19 th Century setting.

Objectively speaking, Lily doesn’t decide on the marriage that day exactly. But the film is so lacking in building the couple’s romance and chemistry that it feels like a same-day verdict. What co-writers Parker and Daniel Pipski instead do is use Lily’s storyline as an excuse to bring Clooney’s David and Roberts’ Georgia together, Lily’s parents and each other’s exes that hate one another. But the duty calls and the duo embarks on a mission to Bali to end this ridiculous fling as a pair of responsible parents.

In fairness, “Ticket to Paradise” earns some goodwill during the David-Georgia scenes and gives the two some sharp moments of squabble, several of which the film’s trailer unfortunately spoils. But the ex-couple’s sexual tension and natural ease at hating each other earn the admission price, even when the momentary bliss we feel in their presence fades away with Lily and Gede reappearing frequently and a present-day romantic interest of Georgia (played by Lucas Bravo ) taking up too much time. It would have been one thing if “Ticket to Paradise” spent some real time thinking through the young fiancés, helping us understand what makes them interesting and right for each other. But in the aftermath, you’ll be shocked at how little you’ll learn about either, apart from their vast affection for the locale they often call beautiful. Well, of course, it is beautiful because what we see is mostly a luxury resort, a fact that makes the “I understand why she likes it here” quote from the parents painfully funny when they show empathy towards Lily’s decision to stay. Doesn’t everyone like a luxury resort?

We do get to see some things outside of the resort, like the lovely grounds of Gede’s supportive family and a pair of touristic sites. But “Ticket to Paradise” seems oddly disinterested in any family dynamics or anything that has to do with Bali, save for a couple of nuptial traditions cartoonishly represented. In the world of this film, everything is background noise and an item on a list of excuses to bring George and Julia together. The saddest casualty of this disposition is Wren. But with her P.J. Soles vibes, Billie Lourd still runs with it enchantingly, committing the cardinal sin of being far more memorable than the bride herself. Perhaps in revenge, the film periodically forgets about her existence.

Bless the old-school stars Roberts and Clooney for elevating this lackluster mélange and in certain instances, even making you forget about the non-sensical film that surrounds them. But that’s hardly enough, especially if you are hoping for a homecoming for the rom-coms of yore.

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Review: ‘Ticket to Paradise’ has Julia Roberts and George Clooney, and that’s enough

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Like we needed any additional proof, but the breezy new romantic comedy “Ticket to Paradise” confirms that Julia Roberts and George Clooney still look great in the air, on dry land or out at sea; wearing formalwear, swimsuits and wetsuits; bickering, bantering and burying the hatchet.

A sleepless night in a humid jungle cannot defeat Roberts’ iconic hair or mess with Clooney’s perfectly maintained scruff. Likewise, a movie mostly absent of surprises and character details cannot fully vanquish the appeal of seeing these two movie stars at a time when the viability of both movies and stars has come into question. At one point, their characters are called dinosaurs. Part of the appeal of “Ticket to Paradise” is seeing Roberts and Clooney together before they — and this type of glossy studio entertainment — become extinct.

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Morbid? Hey, we’re all getting older. Even Clooney’s sandpaper stubble is now sometimes hard to pick up, its color more salt than pepper. But I’m not being grim so much as leaning into the wistful tone of “Ticket to Paradise,” which has its leads musing about missed opportunities and reminiscing about their younger days when they lived by the adage “Why save the good stuff for later?”

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When the film begins, the good stuff between Georgia (Roberts) and David (Clooney) appears to be in the distant rearview mirror. We’re introduced to these characters as director Ol Parker (“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again”), who wrote the film with Daniel Pipski, cuts between them recalling how they met and impulsively married 25 years ago. Their accounts differ. “Her parents thought she was too young,” David remembers. Georgia’s take? “They thought he wasn’t good enough for me.”

But again … distant rearview mirror. Georgia and David divorced 20 years ago for reasons, we learn, they themselves don’t seem to truly understand. That hasn’t stopped them from fashioning a festering animosity over the course of two decades, so much so that their daughter, Lily (Kaitlyn Dever), can’t bring herself to tell them that they’ll be seated next to each other at her college graduation. Good thing they’ll never have to see each other again, right? Right???

Plot mechanics necessitate a reunion, and we get one after Lily heads to Bali with her BFF, Wren (Billie Lourd), and decides to marry the first local seaweed farmer she meets, Gede (Maxime Bouttier). Mom and Dad pack their resortwear, call a truce and agree to a strategy: They’ll outwardly support their daughter’s plans, all the while sabotaging the wedding so the youngsters don’t make the same mistake that they made all those years ago.

Roberts has experience in this sort of thing, of course, having schemed to break up Cameron Diaz and Dermot Mulroney 25 years ago (!) in “My Best Friend’s Wedding.” This movie is not as good as that rom-com classic , which featured a peak Rupert Everett and a subversive screenplay that wasn’t afraid to shade Roberts as a villain, albeit one you still rooted for. (Mostly. Maybe?)

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“Ticket to Paradise” doesn’t invest enough time or energy into the young lovers for you to care whether or not they make it to the altar. This movie is all about beautiful people, gorgeous scenery and the elders rekindling their romance, with the primary obstacles on that front being Georgia’s annoyingly adoring French boyfriend (the appealing Lucas Bravo from “Emily in Paris”) and the time it takes for them to realize their biggest mistake wasn’t their marriage, but their divorce.

But, if you’ve seen the movie’s trailer (or even if you haven’t), you probably know all that. Just as you know that Roberts’ unbridled laugh remains one of the great pleasures of film and that Clooney can play awkward dorkiness just as convincingly as suave elegance. If “Top Gun: Maverick’s” secret weapon was Tom Cruise going Mach 10, “Ticket to Paradise” attains its peak with Roberts and Clooney playing a fierce game of beer pong while silly dancing around to House of Pain .

Dinosaurs? Maybe. But let’s hope the asteroid doesn’t hit for a while.

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Ticket to Paradise review: Julia Roberts and George Clooney ride a slow boat to midlife romance

They play divorcees bickering their way through Bali in Ol Parker's shiny, anodyne comedy.

Their hair is still glorious; their teeth gleam like satellites. It's the rom-coms that got small, not these monolithic movie stars, and Ticket to Ride (in theaters Friday) is apparently the best that 2022 could conjure for two of the genre's last unicorns: an antic wisp of sun-soaked shenanigans, as light and vaporous as a Bali breeze.

That's actually where the story lands after a brief, pained exposition: Divorced for two decades, L.A. gallerist Georgia ( Julia Roberts ) and architect David ( George Clooney ) are happy to interact as little as possible beyond the one good thing their union produced, a daughter named Lily ( Dopesick 's Kaitlyn Dever ). She's a smart, sweet kid, a newly minted law-school graduate off to Indonesia with her best friend ( Billie Lourd ) for a little post-grad Rumspringa before real life begins. And then, something like 37 days later, she's in love — engaged to a local Bali boy (Maxime Bouttier), and ready to shed her career plans for a life as a seaweed farmer's wife.

Cue the parental freakout; soon Georgia and David are on a plane, united in their determination to stop Lily from making their same matrimonial mistakes, even if they can hardly stand to share an armrest. Will they bicker endlessly? With pleasure. Will there be pratfalls and misunderstandings? Uncountable. Might they fall in love all over again? Oh, hush your mouth. Director Ol Parker , who also cowrote the screenplay with Daniel Pipski, is probably best known as the man behind 2018's musical fizz-supreme Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again , and he gives Ticket that same kind of Technicolor gloss, minus the spangled jumpsuits and the ABBA soundtrack (though Roberts does seem to wear a lot of rompers here).

The movie's set pieces are stacked with luxe location shots, like Nancy Meyers with a passport, and broad, mugging comedy spills from every scene. Snake bites, lost boats, romantic betrayal; it's all treated with the same weight, which is to say none at all. Emily in Paris star Lucas Bravo is game and très français as Georgia's adoring airline-pilot boyfriend, and Lourd does what she can with a girl whose main character notes seem to be "kooky alcoholic." Bouttier, as Lily's dreamboat fiancé, has dime-sized dimples and few other distinguishing characteristics — though his extended family do get several buoyant scenes, mostly in the service of innocuous culture-clash punchlines.

That leaves Clooney and Roberts to do the heavy lifting on a script that might easily float away without their movie-star force field to hold it in place. The dialogue aims for snappy His Girl Friday -style repartee, though it more often lands on sitcom; the jokes — isn't marriage just a drag ? — are calibrated to reach the cheap seats, and so is the sentiment. The pair's chemistry feels more familial than romantic, really, but the power of their twined charisma seems like it should have its own collective noun: a pizzazz of mass appeal, a glamour of enchantment. There's no doubt both actors deserve sharper, less silly material than this, but when they're playing beer pong in a Bali bar and drunkenly pogo-ing to House of Pain's "Jump Around," Paradise is almost, for a moment, a place on Earth. Grade: C+

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Ticket to Paradise review: Julia Roberts and George Clooney’s first romcom together is a screwball joy

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Dir: Ol Parker. Starring: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever, Maxime Bouttier, Billie Lourd, Lucas Bravo. 12A, 104 minutes.

It’s a joy to watch Julia Roberts and George Clooney fall in love. It’s an even greater joy to watch them bicker. As embittered exes in Ticket to Paradise , flying to Bali in order to stop the whirlwind nuptials of their daughter ( Kaitlyn Dever ) to a local seaweed farmer (Maxime Bouttier), the duo have been provided a full buffet of snappish asides. They’re heirs to that great screwball tradition. Think back to Claudette Colbert, hitching a car ride with a coquettish flash of the leg in order to tease Clarke Gable in It Happened One Night . Or to Cary Grant at wit’s end in the face of Katharine Hepburn’s scatterbrained antics in Bringing Up Baby .

Here, when Georgia (Roberts) and David (Clooney) are – incidentally – sat next to each other at their daughter’s graduation, they tussle over armrests. When they’re – again, incidentally – booked together on the plane over, they lock themselves into a death grip while riding out a patch of rough turbulence. And, when they find out their hotel rooms adjoin – at this point, the coincidences seem a little suspicious – they immediately launch into an argument over David’s thunderous snores.

Ticket to Paradise immediately recalls the tempestuous relationship Roberts and Clooney shared as the romantic leads of the Ocean’s Eleven films. Though they’ve racked up a fair amount of screen time together, including in 2016’s Money Monster , this is their first genuine romantic comedy as a pair. That it works is largely because their methods haven’t changed. Aside from the joke in which a dolphin makes a B-line for David’s crotch (he later claims it’s a leg injury, but the evidence speaks for itself), and some drunken boomer dancing, there’s very little here that’s gurning or goofy.

The draw of a Roberts/Clooney vehicle, then, is the poker game of words played by two people who’ve always carried with them an air of security. They’re the appointed adults in the room, so it doesn’t really matter how ferociously they fight – you know they’re sensible enough never to dig their claws in so deep that it draws blood. Matters will always be settled. And love, inevitably, will blossom.

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Director Ol Parker’s job is to simply paint around the two, in bright but soothing shades. He’s cast the film in the same mould as The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018). The film presents Bali as a postcard-ready fantasy that’ll have eager romantics booking flights. But Parker also doesn't forget that it's a real place, with real people living in it. The locals – including Bouttier's Gede and his father, Agung Pindha's dryly humorous Wayan – are key to the story.

Parker’s script, co-written with Daniel Pipski, is far more sentimental than it is humorous. It’s rooted in a parent’s fear that their children are such perfect models of themselves that they’re bound to repeat the same mistakes. David, at one point, confesses that he’s at his most vulnerable in the highs of his daughter’s life – “that’s when you get scared, because you don’t want things to change”.

It’s familiar emotional territory, and Dever and Bouttier feel particularly underserved by how blandly straightforward their romance is, despite it supposedly providing the film’s central propulsion. Parker does seem somewhat aware of this, considering he’s taken the easiest route and thrown Billie Lourd into the mix, as Dever’s college bestie. She’s essentially playing the same scene-stealing, bon vivant weirdo as in 2019’s Booksmart : hysterically funny while always having a minimum of two day-glo-tinged cocktails glued to her hands. Emily in Paris ’s Lucas Bravo, too, delivers the perfect, totally witless comic reactions as Georgia’s French himbo pilot boyfriend Paul.

Combined, Lourd and Bravo provide a key antithesis to Roberts and Clooney’s sophisticated shtick. They’re the right ingredients. Parker uses them in the right amounts. It’s (almost) enough to justify the fact the film ends with a mid-jump freeze frame.

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‘Ticket to Paradise’ review: A charming diversion with George Clooney and Julia Roberts

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Let’s face it — it’s been a rough two-and-a-half years, and we might just need a rom-com in which George Clooney and Julia Roberts go to a gorgeous tropical location and wear cutely rumpled linen outfits and spend most of the movie insulting each other in such a way that you know they’re going to end up together. No, I did not just spoil the plot of Ol Parker’s “Ticket to Paradise,” which does not really have a plot to spoil — at least not one that you haven’t seen countless times before. This is one of those movies that is exactly what you think it is going to be; no better, but definitely no worse.

Everything about “Ticket to Paradise” that does not involve Clooney and Roberts is instantly forgettable (except perhaps Billie Lourd’s slyly funny turn in the obligatory best-friend role, though the movie too often forgets she exists); everything involving Clooney and Roberts is a kick. The two play long-divorced couple David and Georgia Cotton, whose only child Lily (Kaitlyn Dever) calls them from her post-law-school-graduation Bali vacation to announce she’s throwing aside her career plans and getting married to a Hot Seaweed Farmer (Maxime Bouttier). (Let’s just call him HSF from now on, as he — and any other character not played by Clooney or Roberts — is nice and doesn’t matter.) David and Georgia instantly freak out, pack up their aforementioned linen and hop on a plane, intent on stopping the nuptials; sort of like “My Best Friend’s Wedding” with a generation gap.

As the movie progresses, more is revealed about how David and Georgia went from besotted young lovers to bitter divorcees long ago, but we don’t really need the backstory; it’s already there, in the ease with which Clooney and Roberts interact. I found myself wondering if these were the same characters from “Ocean’s 11,” some 20 years later, with a renamed Danny Ocean having left his life of crime behind but not his gift for sexy banter. (Roberts’ character Tess managed an art gallery in that film; in this, she owns one — coincidence? Maybe; people in rom-coms are always working in art galleries, way more so than in life.)

But if the lines between Danny/Tess, David/Georgia and indeed George/Julia are blurred — it’s hard to say where one pair leaves off and another begins — it’s definitely fun to watch Clooney and Roberts unleash their arsenal of sly grins, uproarious laughter, bad dancing, side-eying and effortless repartee, even when slinging seaweed or playing drunken beer pong. Never mind Lily and the HSF, who deserve their personality-free life together; “Ticket to Paradise” is all about the welcome sight of a pair of movie stars who know exactly what to do with their wattage.

With George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever, Maxime Bouttier, Lucas Bravo, Billie Lourd. Directed by Ol Parker, from a screenplay by Parker and Daniel Pipski. 104 minutes. Rated PG-13 for some strong language and brief suggestive material. Opens Oct. 21 at multiple theaters.

Review: Julia Roberts and George Clooney put their hearts into 'Ticket to Paradise'

If anyone can bring the romcom back, bet on Julia Roberts and George Clooney.

George Clooney and Julia Roberts as David and Georgia in a scene from the 2022 movie, "Ticket To Paradise."

If anyone can bring the romcom back big time, bet on Julia Roberts and George Clooney.

"Ticket to Paradise," only in theaters, is hardly a classic -- think of a punctured helium balloon sputtering to the ground after a promising start. Still, in these troubled times of clickable snark and cynicism, don't knock a blast of screwball escapism that, however flimsy, allows two astral projections of talent and good looks to sprinkle their combined stardust on the dimmest of storylines.

PHOTO: George Clooney and Julia Roberts as David and Georgia in a scene from the 2022 movie, "Ticket To Paradise."

Roberts plays gallery owner Georgia and Clooney is architect David, a divorced couple whose main form of communication is zinging barbs at each other. They split after five years, but David claims that nearly two decades later he's still in recovery.

The two have united now to destroy the wedding, in tropical Bali, of their law-school grad daughter Lily (the reliably terrific Kaitlyn Dever) to Gede (Maxime Bouttier), a hottie local seaweed farmer she met on vacation on Gede's island home off the coast of Indonesia.

By the way, Bali looks gorgeous. But sticklers for truth in advertising should know that due to pandemic restrictions, the movie was shot in Queensland, Australia. Hooray for Hollywood!

David and Georgia don't object to Gede as a person of color -- "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is so last century -- only that he and Lily are too immature for marriage. They should know, having been college sweethearts who married before they grew to know each other as people.

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As far as retro plots go, this is one seems strung together out of leftovers from 1960s comic romances with Doris Day and Rock Hudson. You can tell from outer space that director-cowriter Ol Parker ("Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again") will abide by PG-13 rules of engagement that keep raunch at bay and feelings in full closeup.

For complications, we get David being bitten by a dolphin and busting drunken moves with Georgia on the dance floor, who also has a fling with Paul ("Emily in Paris" favorite Lucas Bravo), a young pilot who will never be a genuine threat to the reconciliation of Georgia and David that's been in the cards since Scene One.

If you're a viewer for whom familiarity breeds contempt, then "Ticket to Paradise" is not for you. But if you're in the mood to watch crazy rich white people enjoy their privileges away from pesky real-world issues that spoil the fun, then you've found your ticket to ride.

Clooney, 61, is not exactly a romcom guy, as 1996's "One Fine Day" abundantly proved, but his comic touch can be edgy ("Up in the Air") or broad ("O Brother, Where Art Thou"), and he brought a sophisticated snap to his scenes with Roberts in two of his Danny Ocean capers.

Roberts, 54, is romcom royalty. From "Pretty Woman" to "My Best Friend's Wedding" and "Notting Hill," she is even more dexterous with one-liners. It's intriguing that both stars won their only acting Oscar for heavy drama -- she for "Erin Brockovich," he for "Syriana."

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Nowadays, romcoms are struggling, as witness the recent failures of JLo's "Marry Me" and Billy Eichner's gay-themed "Bros." Can the sight of two gorgeously aging A-listers falling out of love and then in again rekindle the magic?

Only time and box office will tell. Thanks to the laughs and the empathy provided by its two stars, "Ticket to Paradise" reminds us of the simple pleasures we've been missing. Roberts and Clooney put their hearts into this one and my guess is audiences will return the favor.

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George Clooney? Julia Roberts? A Rom-com? ‘Ticket to Paradise’ Isn’t a Movie, It’s a Time Machine

By David Fear

Movie stars — remember them? Ticket to Paradise sure does, and it’s banking on the fact that you, the audience member, would actually be willing to leave the comfort of your couch and 7,200 streaming services to go see two of ’em! Together! In a romantic comedy! On a big screen, just like in the old days! By pairing George Clooney and Julia Roberts and casting them as a long-divorced couple who hate each other but must work together to sabotage their daughter’s wedding, the film requires you to answer the burning question: Wait, so what year is it again, exactly?

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It’s big-budget nostalgia, not just for the days when Pretty Woman and Out of Sight and Intolerable Cruelty were things you’d pay for a ticket to see (an alt-title for this could be: My Best Fiend’s Wedding ), but for the era when what Stanley Cavell dubbed the “comedy of remarriage” would let Cary Grant and Irene Dunne circle and charm each other for 90 minutes before inevitably coming back together. And while no one could accuse Ticket to Paradise of being a “great” movie, or even a “very good” one, there’s something about watching Clooney and Roberts butt up against each other in front of a screen-saver background that scratches a long-dormant itch.

When the film just lets the two of them have at each other, or play bedroom-farce after tying one on, or reminisce about where it all went wrong, you can feel the hair on your arms stand on end. Right, this is why they’re stars, you think. The amount of chemistry and charisma they generate in tandem is off the charts. If Ticket to Paradise had been released in 1998, it would just be another A-list mediocrity you’d watch during a long flight. Hitting theaters now, this cinematic time machine is both a mediocrity and, oddly enough, a breath of fresh air. There needs to be room enough for stuff like this to keep being made. Movie stars — they don’t roam the Earth like they used to. But they’re not extinct yet.

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‘Ticket to Paradise’ Review: Come for George Clooney and Julia Roberts, Stay for Not Much Else

Sometimes just having your mum like a movie is enough.

It’s okay to enjoy bad films. We all need escapism, particularly in the dreary winter months when summer has well and truly passed, but the excitement of Christmas is still beyond reach. Major movie studios know exactly this and so, they release movies at this time of the year for those too scared to go see Halloween Ends . They transport us to faraway lands with white sand and crystal clear water, where rich white people get themselves into a series of predicaments that always ends with a wedding and a resolution. Ticket to Paradise is one such film. Christ, look at the title. It promises you a tropical escape, but it's vague enough to cater to any moviegoer. Reteaming the dynamic duo of George Clooney and Julia Roberts , this is the perfect movie to go see with your mother and two aunts—as I did.

Georgia (Roberts) and David (Clooney) Cotton are a divorced couple who can't stand the sight of each other. They don't ignore each other with icy stares—they resemble antagonistic siblings, always finding a new low to sink to in order to insult the other or come out on top. They reunite for their daughter Lily’s ( Kaitlyn Dever ) graduation, and see her off to Bali for three months with her friend, Wren (a criminally underused Billie Lourd ). Two months later, they receive word that Lily will not be returning to the States to start a prosperous career as a lawyer as was planned. She is getting married to a local guy she just met and will live with him and his family in Bali. And sure enough, desperate times call for desperate measures. Georgia and David put their many, many differences aside to sabotage the wedding and make Lily see some sense. But they soon find out that maybe Lily is the only one in the family who is seeing things clearly.

Again, it is okay to enjoy movies like these. Movies catered to a certain audience with more of an eye on money than artistic integrity. But, there has to come a point when a line is drawn, and you can just acquiesce that a movie is bad. This is essentially a rom-com, but with more of a focus on family than romance. For those who think rom-com automatically means “bad,” well, I direct your attention to Bridget Jones’s Diary and When Harry Met Sally . Some rom-coms have some of the best, smartest, and wittiest scripts in all cinema. Charming humor that goes straight to the heart and makes you reeling for the lead two to end up together. Despite Roberts and Clooney’s best efforts, you’re not feeling this way as you’re watching the credits (and the bloopers) roll for Ticket to Paradise .

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Ticket to Paradise really could have been produced in any year. Apart from the characters’ ways to communicate via phone etc. and a montage at the beginning of Lily and Wren’s social media posts, there’s no real indication that this is a movie of the 2020s. No reference to the social or political landscape of the world. Barely any pop culture references to place a certain zeitgeist. The movie is so far removed from the rest of the world that it creates a disconnect between itself and the audience. The only welcome sign of the times is the inclusion of a central character of color - Lily’s Indonesian fiancée, Gede ( Maxime Bouttier ). If this movie was made in the late 90s, you best believe Lily would have met a dashing Wasp boy from Connecticut who also happens to be holidaying in Bali at the exact same time!

Despite its faults, one thing is for certain: Julia Roberts and George Clooney are having the time of their lives and there has to be something said for that. So often we see big stars doing movies that pay well, but they see it as beneath them - and it’s obvious that they’re not even trying to immerse themselves in the project. Roberts and Clooney - three Oscars between them and monikers as two of the best actors working today - do not fall into this category. They give it their all. Whether it's Georgia being disgustingly cutesy with her younger pilot beau ( Emily in Paris ’s Lucas Bravo is undoubtedly the comedic highlight of the movie) or David getting hit by a CGI dolphin, the two legends are game.

Who gets caught in the wreck, sadly, is Kaitlyn Dever. Dever has proven to be an exciting part of young Hollywood with roles in Booksmart , Beautiful Boy , and her Emmy-nominated performance in Dopesick . Lily is a particularly one-note character who seems to only be there to drive the action between Clooney and Roberts. Although the entire plot is meant to be about the parents’ embracing that she is an adult who can think for herself, the script barely grants her any agency as a character. The scenes between her and Gede can become a bit too YA-leaning, with some pretty corny dialogue, but then Roberts and Clooney do a brilliant job of bringing the film back down to earth. Their ratty arguments and relentless cynicism cut through the sweetness of the movie like salt, and it’s exactly what we need when it starts to feel like the movie came out of Hallmark.

A quick word on the direction: This comes from Ol Parker who gave us Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again . While not totally dissimilar to his most recent release, Parker fails to bring the same sense of worldliness and charm that he did with the Mamma Mia sequel. The camera work feels shaky at times in Ticket to Paradise , with close-up shots lingering a bit too long. Although there are some really gorgeous shots of the Bali islands, it all feels a bit too synthetic to become fully immersed in, unlike the Greek island of Mamma Mia which feels like a character itself. There is, quite literally, so much scenery to chew on, but Parker opts to focus on human real estate instead.

Look, Ticket to Paradise is your average, white people in the sun, rom-com. Is it fine cinema? No, but that's not the right lens to look through it with. But that doesn't mean that it gets to avoid all criticism. To see Clooney and Roberts team up again when they have demonstrated in the past (the Oceans movies and Money Monster ) that they go together like rum and coke is a lot of fun, but it also makes it undeniably noticeable that they deserve better. I don't mean an Oscar-worthy dramatic biopic. But a rom-com with some nuance and wit. I can say with a lot of confidence that if it had actors that were even a smidgen less than Roberts and Clooney, the movie would be unwatchable. Ticket to Paradise , if anything, is an example of the importance of star power and how sometimes a lousy script can be swept aside for two old friends taking center stage once again. It kept my mother laughing, and it served as a nice lullaby as my two aunts dozed off - sometimes, bad movies create the best cinema experiences.

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For their latest big-screen partnership, they play exes who take shots at each other. It’s not such a stretch to the fond insults they sling in real life.

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By Kyle Buchanan

Julia Roberts began the interview with a question: “Is George causing problems already?”

Her friend and frequent co-star George Clooney had preceded Roberts on our video call, dialing in from the Provence estate he shares with his wife, Amal. But the room he was sitting in was so streaked with sunlight that Clooney could barely be glimpsed amid all the lens flares, and as Roberts joined us, he was pulling patterned window curtains shut to no avail.

“Are you trying to show how outer your inner radiance is with this flare?” Roberts said.

Clooney peered at her Zoom thumbnail. “You’re one to talk with that soft lens,” he cracked.

“I have a 25-year-old computer!” Roberts said.

Rat-a-tat teasing is how Roberts and Clooney prefer to communicate: “It’s our natural rhythm of joyful noise,” she said. Their rapport has sustained a big-screen partnership spanning several films, from “Ocean’s Eleven” in 2001 to their newest entry, the romantic comedy “ Ticket to Paradise ” (Oct. 21), which casts them as warring exes who reunite to stop the surprise wedding of their daughter (Kaitlyn Dever) to a seaweed farmer (Maxime Bouttier) she met during a graduation trip to Bali. As her divorced parents team up, their old spark is rekindled; by the end of the movie, they’ve gone from exes to something like XO.

When I spoke to Roberts and Clooney in late August, no light was streaming through Roberts’s bay windows at all: It was only 6 in the morning in San Francisco, where Roberts and her husband, Danny Moder, live with their three teenage children. Roberts had requested the early start so that she could send the kids off to school after the interview, and she noted that she was no stranger to early rising: For one sunrise scene in “Ticket to Paradise,” she had a 3 a.m. call time, the earliest she’s ever had to report to set in her career.

“I had to get there at 1 a.m.,” Clooney joked, “because of the work they do on my face beforehand.”

“All the taping and spackle,” Roberts said, letting loose her famous laugh.

Here are edited excerpts from our conversation.

When you read “Ticket to Paradise,” did you each have the other in mind?

GEORGE CLOONEY They sent me the script, and it was clearly written for Julia and I. In fact, the characters’ names were originally Georgia and Julian. I hadn’t really done a romantic comedy since “ One Fine Day ” [1996] — I haven’t succeeded like Julia has in that forum — but I read it and thought, “Well, if Jules is up for it, I think this could be fun.”

JULIA ROBERTS It somehow only made sense with George, just based on our chemistry. We have a friendship that people are aware of, and we’re going into it as this divorced couple. Half of America probably thinks we are divorced, so we have that going for us.

CLOONEY We should be divorced because I’m married now, so that would be really bad. Just saying.

ROBERTS Also, George and I felt a lot of happy responsibility in wanting to make a comedy together, to give people a holiday from life after the world had gone through a really hard time. It’s like when you’re walking down the sidewalk and it’s cold outside and you get to that nice patch of sun that touches your back and you go, “Oh, yeah. This is exactly what I needed to feel.”

Is it true that the two of you had never met before “ Ocean’s Eleven ”?

ROBERTS The funny thing about meeting George was that in the press, people had already pegged us as pals. I’d read about going to a party at George’s, and I thought, “Well, I have to meet this guy at some point because he sounds like a great time.”

CLOONEY I’m fun, man!

ROBERTS There’s some alchemy about us that you can sense from a distance, I think.

CLOONEY I’ve always been drawn to Julia, for a lot of reasons. One of them is that she has forever been a proper movie star but she’s totally willing to not take herself seriously, and that makes such a difference in life because we’ve spent a lot of time together. She’s also a really gifted actress. She works really hard but you never see her sweat, and it’s the quality I appreciate most in my favorite actors, like Spencer Tracy.

Julia, you’re an executive producer of the film alongside George, and you obviously have extensive experience in romantic comedies. What point of view do you bring as a veteran of the genre?

ROBERTS This is a genre that I love to participate in and watch, and I think they are hard to get right. There is a really simple math to it, but how do you make it special? How do you keep people interested when you can kind of predict what is coming?

Has Hollywood had trouble answering those questions? There are way fewer romantic comedies than there used to be, and you’ve said that “Ticket to Paradise” was the first rom-com script since “Notting Hill” (1999) and “My Best Friend’s Wedding” (1997) that you really sparked to .

ROBERTS I think we didn’t appreciate the bumper crop of romantic comedies that we had then. You don’t see all the effort and puppet strings because it’s fun and sweet and people are laughing and kissing and being mischievous. Also, I think it’s different to be reading those scripts at 54 years old. I can’t read a story like “My Best Friend’s Wedding” where I’m falling off a chair and all these things because — —

CLOONEY You’d break a hip.

ROBERTS I’d break a hip! Oh, George. But it was nice to read something that was age-appropriate, where the jokes made sense, and I appreciated and understood what these people were going through. That’s what people want to see, your connection to a piece of work. They want to see the heart space that you have for it — not just, “Oh, do something funny because we love that.”

But funny is still important. There’s a scene in “Ticket to Paradise” where your characters drunkenly dance to the song “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now),” embarrassing their daughter and her friends. Was that choreographed for maximum mortification, or did you just wing it?

ROBERTS People always want to choreograph it, but you can’t put steps to it. You have to just open the box and let the magic fly.

CLOONEY I remember early on in my career, I had to do a kissing scene with this girl and the director goes, “Not like that .” And I was like, “Dude, that’s my move! That’s what I do in real life!” It was sort of that same way here, because everyone had plans for how we should dance, and then we were like, “Well, actually we’ve got some really bad dance moves in real life.” Julia and I have done all those moves before, that’s the sickest part.

ROBERTS Oh, all around the world.

CLOONEY And Kaitlyn and Max were actually horrified, weren’t they?

ROBERTS It was hysterical, they were speechless. If Danny and I were doing that in front of our kids, they would be like, “Yeah, dig me a hole, I’m out of here.”

George, I haven’t moved on from that anecdote of the director criticizing how you kiss. I don’t know how you ever recovered.

CLOONEY And we kiss in this. But I don’t want to give the whole shop away.

It’s a romantic comedy. I think audiences are expecting a kiss.

ROBERTS One kiss. And we did it for, like, six months.

CLOONEY Yeah. I told my wife, “It took 80 takes.” She was like, “What the hell?”

ROBERTS It took 79 takes of us laughing and then the one take of us kissing.

CLOONEY Well, we had to get it right.

You filmed the movie in Australia, right?

CLOONEY We started in Hamilton Island, with all these wild birds, and Julia had the house down just below Amal and me and the kids. I would come out in the early mornings and be like, “Caa-caa,” and Julia would come out and be like, “Caa-caa.” And then we’d bring her down a cup of coffee. She was Aunt Juju to my kids.

ROBERTS The Clooneys saved me from complete loneliness and despair. We were in a bubble, and it’s the longest I’ve ever been away from my family. I don’t think I’ve spent that much time by myself since I was 25.

CLOONEY And also, when Danny and the kids did come visit, that meant they had to fly into Sydney and quarantine for two weeks by themselves before she could see them.

ROBERTS So close and yet so far. When we first got to Australia and we were all quarantining, you kind of go a little bit cuckoo. I remember right around Day 11, I was like, “Who am I? Where am I? What is this room that I never leave?” It’s a funny thing. I hadn’t really anticipated all that.

CLOONEY That’s why they invented alcohol.

ROBERTS Or chocolate chip cookies.

CLOONEY That too.

Julia, this is your first movie role in four years. You’ve said that you consider yourself a homemaker, but your children are all teenaged now — do you think your work-life balance will change when they are grown and out of the house?

ROBERTS I just take it all as it comes. I try to be super present and not plan, and I don’t have any upcoming acting jobs. Getting back to a routine feels really good. And I love being at home, I love being a mom. Being in Australia was really challenging because of all the Covid regulations, and I think it’s a real testament to friendship and to the creative environment we were in that it wasn’t even harder, because I’m not built to be one person anymore. It’s just not in my cellular data.

George, you recently took several years off from movie acting, too. When you have that lengthy period of time between roles, is there any anxiety as you are about to start up again?

CLOONEY If you don’t get that nervous feeling in your stomach every time you start work, then you’re way too confident for this job and it’ll show in your performance. The minute you think you’ve got it or you know what you’re doing, then you really shouldn’t be doing it anymore.

One of the co-stars of “Ticket to Paradise” is Billie Lourd, daughter of the late Carrie Fisher. Her father, Bryan Lourd, has been your longtime agent, George, so I would imagine you’ve known Billie since — —

CLOONEY Since she was born.

Is it wild to share scenes with an actress you’ve known since she was a baby?

ROBERTS Wilder still to be holding her baby while she’s on the set. How about that? Life just going right along.

CLOONEY Yeah. Fun being 61, let me tell you. It comes fast, man.

Sixty-one but still willing to do a shirtless scene — opposite an angry dolphin, no less.

ROBERTS And looking fine, thank you very much!

CLOONEY That was a pretty quick shot, I’ll tell you that. The dolphin looked better.

Kyle Buchanan , a Los Angeles-based pop culture reporter, writes The Projectionist column. He was previously a senior editor at Vulture, New York Magazine's entertainment website, where he covered the movie industry. More about Kyle Buchanan

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Julia Roberts, George Clooney in Ticket to Paradise

Julia Roberts and George Clooney are starring opposite one another in a romantic comedy, but they aren’t in love when they reunite.

“Worst 19 years of my life,” says Clooney’s character in the trailer, describing his relationship with his ex-wife, played by Roberts.

“We were only married for five,” she replies, which he then clarifies by noting: “I’m counting the recovery.”

The megastars teamed up for Universal’s Ticket to Paradise — marking each of their long-awaited returns to the romantic comedy genre. The trailer, which dropped on Wednesday, gives moviegoers a first look at Roberts and Clooney playing a divorced couple who come back together for a Bali excursion in hopes of stopping their lovestruck daughter (played by Kaitlyn Dever) from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago by marrying someone she just met and throwing her career away.

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Julia Roberts, George Clooney captain a forgettable rom-com trip in 'Ticket to Paradise'

Signs that times have changed are all around us, but a Julia Roberts romantic comedy has always implied a certain amount of quality. Nostalgia, however, is a fickle mistress, and her latest, “Ticket to Paradise,” is no “Notting Hill.” It’s not even a “Larry Crowne.”

Directed by Ol Parker ( “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” ), “Paradise” (★★ out of four; rated PG-13; in theaters Friday) reteams A-list “Ocean’s 11” stars Roberts with George Clooney as a pair of bickering exes out to break up their daughter’s wedding before she makes the same mistakes they did. The only errors in sight, though, are in the rom-com itself, a mediocre effort that’s pleasantly beachy, fitfully funny and a waste of its famous leads' hefty chemistry.

David (Clooney) and Georgia (Roberts) have been divorced for years after getting hitched right out of college. Their marriage fell apart soon after the birth of their only daughter, Lily (Kaitlyn Dever). Anytime they're near each other, they’re leveling verbal haymakers, even at Lily’s graduation.

Lily and her best friend Wren (mercurial wunderkind Billie Lourd) head off to Bali for a holiday before Lily starts her job at a high-end law firm. One night, Lily meets and falls for seaweed farmer Gede (Maxime Bouttier) and, 37 days later, she emails her parents that she’s getting married in paradise. David and Georgia – whose clingy French pilot boyfriend Paul (Lucas Bravo) is on their flight – travel to the big event and have four days to break up the youngsters. Predictable shenanigans ensue, from snake bites to accidental hookups, as the parents cause chaos yet also start to see that their kid has found love (and they might be rekindling some sparks themselves).

Some moments really work when the film reminds you that Clooney and Roberts still are Movie Stars: A round of drunken beer pong leads to the middle-aged pair’s “dinosaur” dance moves, set to “Jump Around” and a couple of other retro jams. (Clooney harnesses serious dad energy doing the Cabbage Patch.) But those scenes are fleeting, and David and Georgia’s dynamic – inexplicably going from hateful sniping to playful flirting – feels forced and far-fetched. Adding Paul into the mix as a bumbling oaf (and not even a particularly lovable one) creates an unnecessary love triangle.

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You don’t see enough of David and Georgia’s relationship for it to make sense, and the same goes for Lily and Gede, so the whole premise is wobbly. The rom-com also brings up the Balinese traditions and culture of Gede’s family, but rather than exploring it or creating a bond between moms and dads, their main function is to make obvious comments about David and Georgia in a language the Americans don’t understand.

Folks, this is "Paradise" lost: The movie at times wants to be mean-spirited (especially early on with its two Hollywood legends) yet doesn't have the heart to stick to it, and it's not clever or funny enough to be an enjoyably lighthearted romp about second chances. And this familiar throwback, coming on the heels of "Bros," just makes that hilarious gay romance feel even more remarkably nuanced in comparison.

One doesn't put Roberts and Clooney together on screen without conjuring at least a little magic. But dusting off an old copy of her "America's Sweethearts" or his "One Fine Day" is more likely to scratch that rom-com itch.

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Julia Roberts and George Clooney are back in action again in the new romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise.

Julia Roberts and George Clooney in Ticket to Paradise

Ticket to Paradise sees Julia Roberts and George Clooney back together on the big screen.

Not only are we excited to have the pair together again one of the biggest new movies in 2022 , but we're also thrilled to have them back in the rom-com space. It’s hard to believe that Notting Hill star Roberts hasn’t been in a romantic comedy in over two decades and we’re glad to see her back at it.

The duo has a long history of working together, dating back to 2001’s Ocean’s Eleven and the sequel Ocean’s Twelve (2004), along with 2016’s Money Monster .

This time around they’re playing a divorced couple going to great lengths to keep their daughter from making the same mistakes they did, only it doesn’t go quite as planned. Much of the movie’s charm (as evidenced by the trailer) comes from seeing the hilariously contentious relationship between Roberts and Clooney as they try to work together no matter how hard it is to be in close proximity to each other.

What to Watch reviewed Ticket to Paradise and called it a "return ticket to the classic rom-com."

Ticket to Paradise has a run time of one hour and 44 minutes.

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Ticket to Paradise is proving to be one of those movies that was generally panned by critics but loved by audiences. As of this writing, the movie is sitting on a 56% from 144 critics on Rotten Tomatoes , but it's at 80% from the audience.

It has an IMDB Metascore of 51, with an IMDB rating of 6.4/10.

Chris Knight of the National Post had this to say: " Ticket to Paradise is an old-school rom-com from start to finish. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel or even give it particularly fresh treads but, to be fair, it’s clearly not trying to either."

Rolling Stone's David Fear offered this: "While no one could accuse Ticket to Paradise of being a 'great' movie, or even a 'very good' one, there’s something about watching Clooney and Roberts butt up against each other in front of a screen-saver background that scratches a long-dormant itch."

Ester Zuckerman of Bloomberg didn't love the movie, but offered this: "Watching Ticket to Paradise , the new starry theatrical rom-com, you may occasionally find your mind drifting. Hey, you might think, if nothing else, George Clooney and Julia Roberts got a great vacation out of this experience. I bet they had fun."

How to watch Ticket to Paradise

Ticket to Paradise was released exclusively in theaters on October 21 in the US and on September 20 in the UK. The UK release date was changed from September 16 out of respect to The Queen.

The movie will be available to stream on Peacock 45 days after its theatrical run.

What is Ticket to Paradise about?

Ticket to Paradise is the story of a former married couple, played by Roberts and Clooney, who travel to Bali to prevent their daughter, Lily (played by Kaitlyn Dever), from marrying a guy she’s just met. She’s head over heels in love with him and her parents believe that she’s about to make a big mistake.

They agree to team up to present a united front against their daughter’s plan to get married, but things don't go to plan at all.

Who is in the Ticket to Paradise cast?

Julia Roberts and George Clooney topline the cast of Ticket to Paradise . Joining them are Kaitlyn Dever, Billie Lourd ( Star Wars: The Last Jedi ), Lucas Bravo, Amanda O’Dempsey, Murran Kain, Vanessa Everett and Rowan Chapman.

We don’t yet have specifics on character names, but we’ll be sure to update them as they’re available.

Roberts recently spoke with The New York Times about returning to romantic comedies after so much time away from the genre. When she saw the script for Ticket to Paradise , she knew there was only one way it would work: with George Clooney. "Lo and behold, George felt it only worked with me. Somehow we were both able to do it, and off we went."

Is there a trailer for Ticket to Paradise?

Not surprisingly, the trailer for Ticket to Paradise sets up the entire movie. Bitter divorced couple trying to "save" their daughter, only to discover that working together again isn’t as bad as they thought it would be. Kind of. There’s still a lot of bickering and mayhem, which makes the movie all the more endearing.

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Julia Roberts made her long-awaited return to rom-coms with Ticket to Paradise , and it proved that it’s time for a rom-com reunion with one of her best co-stars. Although Julia Roberts has explored different genres throughout her acting career, she rose to fame when she starred in some of the most popular rom-coms from the 1990s . Roberts’ undeniable charm and talent for bringing both comedy and romance to her performances made her the undisputed queen of rom-coms of the 1990s – however, she left the genre in the 2000s and didn’t make a proper return to it until 2022.

Julia Roberts focused on projects from other genres, mostly drama, though she didn’t leave romance movies behind completely, as she starred in movies like Eat Pray Love and Valentine’s Day . Roberts explained she turned down rom-com scripts for 20 years because she couldn’t find good ones that would make her return to the genre, but that finally changed in 2022 with Ticket to Paradise – and despite its low critics score on Rotten Tomatoes , the audience’s warmer reception is proof that it’s time for Roberts’ longest-awaited and most exciting rom-com reunion.

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Ticket To Paradise Was Julia Roberts’ Big Return To Rom-Coms

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Ticket To Paradise reunited Roberts with George Clooney to play divorced couple Georgia and David, who can’t stand each other.

Despite movies like Valentine’s Day potentially being considered rom-coms, Julia Roberts’ role in it was so small that it doesn’t quite count as a return to the genre. Roberts’ big return to the world of rom-coms was Ticket to Paradise , directed by Ol Parker and co-written by Parker and Daniel Pipski. Ticket To Paradise reunited Roberts with George Clooney to play divorced couple Georgia and David, who can’t stand each other. However, when their daughter Lily (Kaitlyn Dever) is getting married in Bali, Georgia and David are forced to spend time together for the sake of Lily and the wedding.

What follows are Georgia and David’s attempts to sabotage Lily’s wedding from within , but for that, they have to do their best to get along. The rom-com genre isn’t the critics’ favorites, and while there have been many that have earned their praise, many don’t have the same luck, and Ticket To Paradise was one of them. At the time of writing, Ticket To Paradise holds a 56% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes , giving it a “rotten label”, though critics praised the chemistry between Roberts and Clooney.

Ticket to Paradise was a box office success, showing that the audience was a lot more welcoming of it and that there’s interest in seeing Julia Roberts in rom-coms again.

However, Ticket to Paradise has an 87% audience score , with viewers praising its scenery, story, tone, and, once more, the chemistry between its main characters. Ticket to Paradise was also a box office success, showing that the audience was a lot more welcoming of it and that there’s interest in seeing Julia Roberts in rom-coms again, proving that now it’s the time for the long-awaited reunion of Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.

Ticket To Paradise Proves It’s Time For The Long-Awaited Julia Roberts & Richard Gere Reunion

Julia roberts’ most memorable rom-com partner was richard gere.

The Roberts/Gere pair became an icon of 1990s rom-coms, and with the genre going through a resurgence, and Roberts back into it, it’s the perfect time to bring them back.

Julia Roberts had different co-stars during her reign in the rom-com genre in the 1990s, but the best-remembered one is Richard Gere. Roberts’ first big rom-com hit in the 1990s was Garry Marshall’s Pretty Woman (1990), where she played Vivian Ward, a Hollywood escort hired by wealthy businessman Edward Lewis (Gere) to be his companion for different business and social events for a whole week. Pretty Woman was a critical and commercial success , boosting Roberts’ career and making way for another Roberts/Gere team-up nine years later.

Pretty Woman is a well-known movie, starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. However, the original script had a not-so-happy ending.

Garry Marshall brought Julia Roberts and Richard Gere back together in Runaway Bride , which follows Maggie Carpenter, the title bride who has run away from three of her former weddings and is preparing for a fourth attempt, and Ike Graham, a news reporter who writes an article about Maggie. Maggie and Ike end up falling for each other as they get to know each other, but they also have to know themselves. Unlike Pretty Woman , Runaway Bride got negative reviews from critics , who didn’t like the story or the characters, but was a big box office success .

Still, the Roberts/Gere pair became an icon of 1990s rom-coms, and with the genre going through a resurgence, and Roberts back into it, it’s the perfect time to bring them back. As mentioned above, Ticket to Paradise proved the audience is still interested in seeing Roberts in rom-coms , and pairing her with Gere again after all those years could be successful.

Julia Roberts & Richard Gere’s Rom-Com Reunion Can Follow Ticket To Paradise’s Steps

Ticket to paradise offers the perfect solution for a julia roberts & richard gere reunion.

One key detail that contributed to Ticket to Paradise ’s success is that it didn’t have Roberts and Clooney playing a couple.

A Julia Roberts and Richard Gere rom-com reunion would be facing a couple of challenges, but Ticket to Paradise shows the best way to bring them back. Speaking to Deadline at Cannes Festival in May 2024, Gere mentioned that a third rom-com with Roberts wouldn’t be possible as Garry Marshall was “ the glue of all of that ” and it was “ lightning in a bottle ”, so his chemistry with Roberts couldn’t be replicated. While it’s true that Marshall was a big part of the magic of Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride , a Roberts/Gere reunion doesn’t have to look to replicate the chemistry they had in those movies.

One key detail that contributed to Ticket to Paradise ’s success is that it didn’t have Roberts and Clooney playing a couple, and instead, the movie focused on their efforts to sabotage the wedding and the messy but fun situations they got themselves into. Roberts and Clooney were simply having fun and it showed , which is the formula that Julia Roberts and Richard Gere’s long-awaited rom-com return can follow to succeed.

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Ticket to Paradise

Ticket to Paradise is a 2022 romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney and directed by OI Parker. The film revolves around parents David and Georgia Cotton. Despite being divorced, they travel to Bali together to attempt to stop their young daughter's marriage which they think is a mistake.

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10 Underrated Julia Roberts Movies That Deserve More Love

Leave the World Behind proves Julia Roberts is still among the queens of Hollywood, but even so, some of her films are highly underrated.

When talking about iconic actresses in the entertainment industry, one of the very first names that probably comes to mind is Julia Roberts , a major star who has earned widespread acclaim from critics and the affection of audiences worldwide with roles across all genres. After first gaining notoriety in the late-1980s with films such as Mystic Pizza and Steel Magnolias , Roberts emerged as a force to be reckoned with in the 1990 blockbuster Pretty Woman , a film that also made her a queen of the romantic comedy .

Throughout her career, Roberts appeared in all kinds of productions, proving that her acting skills are not limited to characters in love stories. She excelled in films such as Erin Brockovich , Ocean's Eleven, and Wonder , among many others, and continues to tackle new challenges to this day. In fact, her most recent film premiered just recently: Netflix's Leave the World Behind , in which she stars alongside Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali.

Roberts is a multi-awarded artist who, thanks to the box office performance of her many movies, has turned into one of the most bankable stars in the industry. But even a superstar like her has her fair share of movies that didn't quite get the love they truly deserved. Here are 10 of her most underrated movies.

10 Valentine's Day (2010)

Valentine's day.

To kick things off is Valentine's Day , Garry Marshall's 2010 film that hugely disappointed critics, but still became a box office hit. This movie features one of the most impressive ensemble casts in the industry, and follows different characters whose stories intertwine on Valentine's Day. Roberts plays Kate, a U.S. military captain who flies home for just a few hours to reconnect with her son.

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Marshall played a major role in Roberts' career, as he directed the film that first brought her to stardom. Valentine's Day marked their third collaboration after many, many years of not having worked together, and while it may not be everyone's cup of tea, it is a production that any rom-com fan will love, with a predictable yet hugely entertaining story that features brilliant performances. Rent on Apple TV

9 Mirror Mirror (2012)

Mirror mirror.

2012 marked the premiere of Tarsem Singh's Mirror Mirror , a fantasy comedy based on the well-known story of Snow White, starring Lily Collins and Julia Roberts. In it, Collins plays the beloved princess, who, after being banished by her wicked stepmother, teams up with seven dwarves to sneak back into the kingdom and reclaim what is rightfully hers.

Upon its release, Mirror Mirror was heavily criticized for not bringing anything new to the table compared to other adaptations of the renowed fairy tale. However, the film manages to delight audiences with a story that is both fun and whimsical, with well-constructed characters and several plot tweaks that pay off in full. Plus, the costumes are amazing, and Roberts excels in playing a villain who, against all odds, is quite likable. Stream on Max

8 Secret in Their Eyes (2015)

Secret in their eyes.

The Argentine film El Secreto de Sus Ojos hit the silver screen in 2009 and took the world by storm, winning the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film and many other accolades. Six years later, its American remake, Secret in Their Eyes , premiered, with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman, and Julia Roberts leading the cast. This production follows a group of FBI investigators who spend years trying to solve the gruesome murder of the daughter of one of them.

Secret in Their Eyes was harshly panned for not being as good as the original film, which is truly a masterpiece. But even so, this thriller is definitely worth watching, not only for the performances of its cast, but also for the adjustments they made to the original production that take the audience by surprise and keep them glued to the screen until the very end. Stream on Tubi

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7 Eat Pray Love (2010)

Eat Pray Love is a 2010 film by Ryan Murphy, based on Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir that changed the lives of readers worldwide four years earlier. Roberts stars as the author, who, in the midst of an existential crisis, embarks on a journey through Italy, India, and Bali to rediscover herself and the things that really matter.

Eat Pray Love underwent a very similar fate to Secret in Their Eyes , It was deemed vastly inferior to the original material. However, considering that adapting a book to the silver screen is no easy task, we can say that Murphy's film certainly strikes a chord with the audience and conveys the essence of the original piece, aided by brilliant performances from its star-studded cast . Rent on AppleTV

6 Ocean's Twelve (2004)

Ocean's twelve.

Ocean's Twelve hit the silver screen in 2004, becoming the first sequel to Steven Soderbergh's 2001 blockbuster that revolutionized the world. This heist comedy film features the original cast, once again with George Clooney and Brad Pitt at the helm, and follows Danny Ocean (Clooney) and his crew, who must orchestrate another heist to return the million-dollar loot they stole from casino owner Terry Benedict.

Yet again, Ocean's Twelve was another of Roberts' films doomed for not living up to the original. And while in many ways this is accurate, the movie breaks away from its predecessor by introducing the characters in a different context, with a story that is every bit as entertaining and funny as the original. Ocean's Twelve is a heartwarming film, perfect to watch on the days when one craves a light-hearted movie that doesn't require you to think too much. Rent on AppleTV

5 Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

One year after emerging as a star thanks to Pretty Woman , Roberts starred in Sleeping with the Enemy , a film by Joseph Ruben, based on Nancy Price's novel. In it, she plays Laura, a woman who fakes her own death and relocates to escape her violent husband, but must confront him once again after the man discovers the hoax and tracks her down in her new home.

Sleeping with the Enemy has been terribly panned by critics as unimpressive and overly predictable. However, this psychological thriller not only manages to keep the audience on edge from start to finish, but is also a movie that proved how versatile Roberts could be as an actress. Especially considering it followed Pretty Woman , this movie showed the actress was capable of bouncing from light-hearted fanfare to something darker and more sinister — and she did this seamlessly. Stream on Paramount+

4 Ticket to Paradise (2022)

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The 2022 rom-com Ticket to Paradise marked a new collaboration between Clooney and Roberts, two stars and friends that audiences love to spot together on-screen. In this Ol Parker film, they play David and Georgia, two exes who can't stand one another, but must join forces to prevent their daughter from marrying a young man she just met in Bali.

Ticket to Paradise has all the ingredients of romantic comedies that any genre fan would love. It's a simple though nonetheless entertaining story, and although it's quite predictable, like many of the genre's greatest movies, it's definitely an amazing, feel-good movie. Plus, Roberts and Clooney are charming in their roles, displaying a chemistry that transcends the screen. Stream on Prime Video

3 Conspiracy Theory (1997)

1997 marked the premiere of Conspiracy Theory , an action thriller film directed by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts. This movie follows a cab driver fond of conspiracy theories, whose life takes a dangerous turn when one of his fantasies turns out to be true.

Conspiracy Theory is an entertaining movie, whose gripping plot keeps you glued to the screen from start to finish. Probably the most remarkable element of this film is the chemistry between its leads and their ability to portray their complex characters to perfection. Rent on AppleTV

2 Dying Young (1991)

Dying Young is another film that Roberts appeared in shortly after rising to fame with Pretty Woman . It is directed by Joel Schumacher, based on a novel by Marti Leimbach, and features Campbell Scott in a co-starring role. It follows Hilary, a young girl hired as the primary caregiver for Victor, a man undergoing leukemia treatment. While their relationship initially appears to be merely professional, over time it evolves into a one-of-a-kind romance.

Schumacher's film is a beautiful story that reflects on the boundaries of love, with well-constructed characters and impeccable performances that will certainly make the audience cry their eyes out. Besides its great actors, the film features a memorable soundtrack by James Newton Howard that was ultimately nominated at the Grammy Awards. Rent on Prime Video

1 Runaway Bride (1999)

After Pretty Woman 's phenomenal success in 1990, Garry Marshall re-teamed with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in the 1999 rom-com Runaway Bride . In this rom-com, Roberts plays Maggie, a young woman known around town for having ditched three grooms at the altar. Her story arouses the attention of New York journalist Ike (Gere), who writes an unflattering article about her that eventually gets him fired. Determined to save his career, Ike travels to meet her, not knowing that the trip is about to change his life.

Runaway Bride is a hidden gem in the romantic comedy genre that features one of the best movie couples out there. As such, it can't get any better than that. Despite not being as memorable as Pretty Woman , the film is heartwarming, invites us to reflect on major themes, such as self-realization and authenticity, and treats us to solid performances from the lead actors and the rest of the cast. Stream on Paramount+

Glen Powell Compared His Relationship With Sydney Sweeney To Julia Roberts And George Clooney, And It Makes So Much Sense

I t only took one movie for audiences to fall in love with Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney's chemistry. The box-office success Anyone But You is about two exes who reunite at a destination wedding only to pretend to be a couple for their own separate reasons. The Twisters actor feels his working chemistry with Sweeney works so well that he compares the two of them to Julia Roberts and George Clooney which makes a lot of sense.

We’ve seen a lot of rom-com partners light up the screen with their cute banter and steamy kiss scenes. Glen Powell told Sunday Today that he and Sydney Sweeney work so well together that they could be the next Julia Roberts and George Clooney! Check out his reasoning below and you’ll see for yourself how much it makes sense:

It’s like Julia (Roberts) and George (Clooney), you know? Matthew (McConaughey) and Kate (Hudson). These people that worked together over and over and over again. It’s when you find somebody that you have a great creative partnership with and somebody you can really trust and somebody that treats the crew well and her costars well. And that you really see the vision for the movie and she’s such a smart businesswoman. You want to keep doing that. There’s no reason to do it any other way.

It’s true that if you have a good thing going with your co-star, you don’t want that successful partnership to stop. After all, George Clooney and Julia Roberts had great chemistry in the Oceans movies and reunited for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Money Monster. But, the reunion we were all excited for was when they re-teamed for Ticket to Paradise in 2022, which was a rom-com first in years for the two of them. Clearly, everyone wanted some Clooney/Roberts fun as their rom-com made $168.6 million, hitting a box office milestone that put all five productions they’ve done together at a total of $1.007 billion.

Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney had similar luck with their movie, as Anyone But You racked up more than $100 million at the box office. Of course, one thing that brought a lot of attention to their project was dating rumors between the two after Powell’s girlfriend Gigi Paris reportedly unfollowed the Euphoria actress on social media with fans speculating it was because of their cute on-set photos together. It didn’t help matters when the pair broke up not long after and a photo surfaced of Sweeney’s fiancé leaving the house with bags.

However, those rumors have since been debunked , with the internet twisting every post and picture it sees into something it’s not. The Top Gun: Maverick actor actually revealed he and his rom-com female lead leaned into those affair rumors for the purpose of bringing more attention to their movie. You can’t say that it didn’t work.

While speaking on Sunday Today, Glen Powell admitted some very exciting news that he jokingly admitted his agent wouldn’t be happy saying: he and Sydney Sweeney are reading scripts in the direction of planning their next movie together. They’ve said previously that they’re reading everything handed to them with the goal of making sure what they pick is something that will resonate with audiences. I think we have this generation’s new rom-com dream team forming here!

As Glen Powell said, he and Sydney Sweeney could be on the verge of being the next George Clooney and Julia Roberts. It makes so much sense as their on-screen chemistry is box office gold and a chance to deliver to audiences a rom-com they’ll enjoy. Anyone But You is available to watch with your Netflix subscription .

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The project has been a hot property going back to when Imagine landed the script and began developing it at the top of the year with every A-list director and star chasing it. Once Guadagnino and Roberts were attached, Amazon moved fast to land the pic and given the star power already involved it’s no surprise top talent like Garfield are now filling out the ensemble.

The Golden Globe and Tony Award-winning actor and Oscar-nominated Garfield who will next be seen in A24 and Studio Canal’s We Live In Time opposite Florence Pugh. Garfield was last seen in FX’s Under the Banner of Heaven , which landed him his first Emmy nomination. Previous credits include Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tick, Tick… Boom!, Spider-Man: No Way Home , Searchlight’s The Eyes of Tammy Faye , Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge , Gia Coppola’s Mainstream , David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake , Andy Serkis’ Breathe , Martin Scorsese’s Silence opposite Adam Driver, Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes , David Fincher’s The Social Network , and Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 , which combined grossed over $1.5 billion at the box office.

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FILE - George Clooney attends a special screening of “The Boys in the Boat” in New York on Dec. 13, 2023. Clooney will make his Broadway acting debut next year in a familiar project for the Hollywood star: “Good Night, and Good Luck.” Clooney will play legendary TV journalist Edward R. Murrow in a stage adaptation of the 2005 movie. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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NEW YORK (AP) — George Clooney will make his Broadway acting debut next year in a familiar project for the Hollywood star: “Good Night, and Good Luck.”

Clooney will play legendary TV journalist Edward R. Murrow in a stage adaptation of the 2005 movie that earned him directing and writing Oscar nominations and was among the best picture contenders.

“I am honored, after all these years, to be coming back to the stage and especially, to Broadway, the art form and the venue that every actor aspires to,” Clooney said in a statement.

The play “Good Night, and Good Luck” — with David Cromer directing — will premiere on Broadway in spring 2025 at a Shubert Theatre to be announced. It will be again co-written by Clooney and Grant Heslov.

The 90-minute black-and-white film starred David Strathairn as Murrow and is a natural to be turned into a play: The dialogue-heavy action unfolds on handful of sets. The title comes from Murrow’s signoff on the TV series “See It Now.”

A key part of Clooney’s film portrayed Murrow’s struggle to maintain support from CBS executives for critical reporting on Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy, known for accusing government employees of disloyalty. Clooney played “See It Now” co-creator Fred Friendly, who resisted intense pressure and ensured the reports got to air.

Murrow, who died in 1965, is considered one of the architects of U.S. broadcast news.

“Edward R. Murrow operated from a kind of moral clarity that feels vanishingly rare in today’s media landscape. There was an immediacy in those early live television broadcasts that today can only be effectively captured on stage, in front of a live audience,” Cromer said in a statement.

The Clooneys are boosters of journalism. Clooney’s father, Nick Clooney, worked as a TV news anchor and host in a variety of cities including Cincinnati, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. He also wrote a newspaper column in Cincinnati and taught journalism students at American University.

At the time the movie came out, Clooney said his family took pride in how journalists held the government accountable during the paranoia of the 1950s communist threat. Clooney said he wanted to make a movie to let people hear some “really well-written words about the fourth estate again.”

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The relationship is captivating. The energy flowing effortlessly between them means you instantly feel their connection, their shared affection, their give and take. It’s by far the strongest relationship in the production. The only difficulty is that it’s the one between Francesca Amewudah-Rivers’ Juliet and Freema Agyeman’s outstanding Nurse. And in Jamie Lloyd ’s production of “ Romeo and Juliet ” starring the headline-grabbing Tom Holland (in a run that sold out in two hours), that’s quite a problem. And not the only one. A giant projected image of the date tells us we’re in 1597 but Lloyd is at pains to present an utterly contemporary world. And, as with his vital reinvention of Lucy Prebble’s “The Effect” (transferred from the National Theatre to NYC’s The Shed) and the upcoming Broadway transfer of his sell-out but more divisive “Sunset Boulevard,” the aesthetic on display — display being the operative word — is fiercely stripped-down. Soutra Gilmour’s monochrome design is all rising and falling steel girders on a bald set with neither decoration nor props. This is a world of intense shadows created by Jon Clark’s stark side-lighting, allowing black-clad performers to loom in and out of darkness. The brightest element comes via video, splashed across a stage-wide screen and shot live via two Steadicams, showing the performers on stage or, as is already a cliché following its much-copied first appearance in Ivo Van Hove’s “Network,” in sequences in which characters are revealed walking from corridors backstage onto the stage or, in this instance, seen coming down from a scene outdoors atop the theater’s roof. For all the focus on these and other projections of intense close-up moments, the most attention-grabbing element is sound. Every moment is underscored by everything from sudden stings and doom-laden, intense, industrial hum, all the way to bursts of drum ’n’ bass in an attempt to add tension.

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The exception to all this is Juliet. In the first half in particular, Amewudah-Rivers’ well-grounded calmness pays huge dividends. Her grasp of her character brings the audience to her, and her quick-witted reactions are highly legible. She, like the older, more skilled actors, is able to find nuance within the prevailing style. But Holland lacks her still stage presence. He’s perfectly plausible as lovestruck Romeo growing increasingly stressed and distressed, but he emotes rather than elicits emotions. Both actors are hobbled by the logical (over)extension of Lloyd’s approach. Juliet sits down front to take her poison and then closes her eyes. But instead of staging the Nurse’s distressed discovery of her body and the reactions of her father, Lloyd lines them up at the back of the stage facing away from the audience. We hear the lines but with no reactions to watch, the scene is bizarrely shorn of any emotional response. The same bald, monotonous pacing dogs Holland’s hardworking approach to the final scene. There’s more sadness created in the Friar’s closing speech, proof that, filled to the brim with stylization though the production is, it’s in thrall to its effects but fails to deliver dramatic effect. It’s deeply ironic that in the world’s most famous play about young love and death, the characters you end up sympathizing with most are the Nurse, the Friar and even the parents. It surely cannot have been the intention to make a production in praise of the older generation.

Duke of York's Theatre, London; 630 seats; £275 ($349) top. Opened, May 23, 2024; reviewed May 22. Closes Aug 3. Running time: 2 HOURS, 15 MIN.

Production: A Jamie Lloyd Company Production produced by Jamie Lloyd and Jon Bath in association with David Binder, Ruth Hendel, Patrick Catullo and Christopher Ketner presentation of a play in two acts by William Shakespeare.
Crew: Sets and costume, Soutra Gilmour; lighting, Jon Clark; sound, Ben and Max Ringham; video/cinematography, Nathan Amzi and Joe Ransom; composer, Michael 'Mikey J’ Asante; movement, Sarah Golding and Yukiko Masui; production stage manager, Andrew Reed.
Cast: Tom Holland, Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, Freema Agyeman, Michael Balogun, Tomiwa Edun, Mia Jerome, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Ray Sesay, Nima Taleghani, Joshua-Alexander Williams.

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