Laura (Rashida Jones) is comfortably married to Dean (Marlon Wayans) with two kids in New York City. Her rich womanizing Felix (Bill Murray) convinces her that Dean is cheating on her. They start staking him out.

Sofia Coppola has paired Bill Murray with another young woman. In this one, she's his daughter. It has its moments. It's intermittently amusing. This is begging to have some quirky screwball comedy. Murray is willing but Jones is doing a more dour characterization. While it's perfectly understandable, she leaves a hazy cloud in the humor. She needs to be comedically hyper but her downtrodden mannerism creates a sink to the humor. This is sometimes humorous and compelling.

Oh my god, is there a filmmaker working right now who is able to make something that isn't blah and dreary?

The "wife who feels dumpy and is worried that her husband is cheating on her" storyline is the female equivalent of the "middle aged man having a midlife crisis" storyline. These problems are real and significant to the person they're happening to, but they're boring if they're not happening to you. Or I guess they don't have to be boring if treated in a certain way, but that way isn't the one in this movie.

Rashida Jones might have all sorts of pizazz as an actress, but in this she's so devoid of personality that you don't much care whether or not her husband is cheating on her. I was almost hoping he was so at least one of them would be having some fun. She and Marlon Wayans have zero chemistry together and never once are believable as a married couple. If I were in a more generous mood I might say this was intentional, except that by the end of the film, when they're back on track and are smitten with one another again, they still don't have any chemistry or act like they're actually married, so I think it's just bad casting and direction.

Bill Murray is usually nothing but charm, but even he's lifeless in this movie.

And can we all take a moment to acknowledge how tone deaf Sofia Coppola is to include a scene where an old white guy's interaction with the cops who have pulled him over is played for sassy laughs while the daughter he's with, a daughter who's married to a black man!, looks on without a word? If her husband had been pulled over for the same reasons, I have a feeling the situation would have played out differently.

I've liked most every other Sofia Coppola movie, but this one feels like the product of a Hollywood brat who's grown up in a different reality from the rest of us.

Grade: C-

"On the Rocks" is one film that just stays simple as it's a tale of dad and daughter and their relationship. Laura(Rashida Jones) is a successful married lady with kids living in New York city as she tries to write out her next best selling book. Only she starts to have insecure thoughts thinking that her working and often traveling husband has a wondering eye. Now enter her grown and sharp dressed playboy like dad Felix(the wonderful and super good Bill Murray) who visits and starts to play dad in charge and be like a P.I. and do his own work for Lauren. And Felix is witty and smart as he has a movie quoting mouth and knows his stuff plus he provides plenty of laughs and daddy like comfort. And all live happily ever after that pretty much sums up the film nothing great just a comfort feel dad and daughter break like comedy.