Film

Instant Family

Director
Sean Anders
Certificate
12A
Running Time
118 mins

A tonally awkward, semi-autobiographical parenthood comedy-melodrama from the director of Daddy’s Home? You got it.

Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne play an affluent do-gooding couple with a void in their lives who decide to build their own family through foster care by taking in surly teen Lizzy (Isabela Moner) and her equally troubled siblings. Would you be surprised to learn that laughter and, indeed, tears ensue on the rocky road to the happy ending?

By robin askew, Tuesday, Feb 5 2019

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