Synopsis
A 30-year-old spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her 70-year-old self.
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Cast
- Diane KeatonRita
- Taylour PaigeCarla
- Elizabeth LailMack
- Dustin MilliganJack
- Loretta DevineSharon
- Wendie MalickAngela
- Amy HillCarol
- Lois SmithBetty
- Simon RexLuca
- Aimee CarreroSunita
Recommendations
- 80
TheWrap
Mack & Rita is silly, but it’s a strong, necessary kind of silly, a warm and embracing kind of silly. Keaton has rarely been so bubbling and bright, reminding us that regardless of age, being true to yourself is all that really counts in a person. The love will come no matter what. - 60
Variety
The film does, at minimum, convince us that most people would want to transform into Keaton if given the opportunity. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
At times disarming, at others plain silly, it takes a few daring leaps without quite avoiding middle-of-the-road sitcom territory. - 58
The A.V. Club
Visually, fusing the story with a warm, contemporary aesthetic makes it a pleasant enough affair. But ultimately, Mack & Rita is a passable work at best for Aselton (Black Rock and The Freebie serve as better showcases for her creative voice), and consequently, it’s unlikely to lead to her soon swapping chairs with the director of the next big-budget blockbuster. - 50
Boston Globe
The film misses an opportunity to portray the complexity of one’s 30s — and 70s. Still, Mack & Rita is a quirky movie that reminds the audience to live life to the fullest, whatever age they are. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Aselton has a light touch as a director, and she wisely trots out an all-star parade of comedy heavyweights to distract from the script issues. - 42
Collider
By the time it all eventually wraps up with some lackluster lessons conveyed via a painfully sappy final scene, you’ll wish the film had taken the chance to go on a journey with Keaton and Paige instead of whatever this all was. - 38
Movie Nation
Maybe if “Rita” had been forced into more bachelorette weekend antics with Paige, bubbly Aimee Carrero and Addie Weyrich, the strain of trying to keep up, comically, with Keaton wouldn’t have been so obvious. As it is, “Mack & Rita” is a criminal waste of seasoned comic talent and a criminal misuse of some of the most beautiful Hollywood starlets coming up behind them.
