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Ella McCay

Ella McCay

A story about the people you love, and how to survive them.

5.6EN115 min11 December 2025
An idealistic young politician juggles familial issues and a challenging work life while preparing to take over the job of her mentor, the state’s longtime incumbent governor.
Budget: $35,000,000Box Office: $4,546,837
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Viewer Opinions (9)

CinemaSerf@Geronimo1967
★★★☆☆ 6.0
Instead, though, we get a weakly structured melodrama that gives JLC virtually no chance to impose herself, leaves Lowden with a completely undercooked character and so Mackey is left to sustain the film largely by herself, and there just isn’t enough tale for anyone to get their teeth into. I did like like the premises here. This film this was meantime, we learn that she is the estranged daughter of the womanising “Eddie” (Woody Harrelson) and has a super-bright though agoraphobic brother “Casey” (Spike Fearn) whom she wants to encourage to reconnect with his erstwhile girlfriend “Susan” (Ayo Edebiri). …
16 December 2025VerifiedUser Review
B
Brent Marchant@Brent_Marchant
★★☆☆☆ 4.0
Moreover, as charming as the protagonists are in this film, they engage in yet another screen exploration of the dysfunctional family theme, a concept the director has drawn on multiple times before in such films as “Terms of Endearment” (1983), “Broadcast News” (1987) and “As Good As It Gets” (1997), ground that the filmmaker has more than sufficiently covered already. While it’s true that “Ella McCay” has many elements going for it – great performances, terrific casting, engaging story threads, impressive protagonist development and some decidedly good writing (especially when it comes to generating laughs) – the picture, regrettably, has difficulty pulling them all together, as if it were an overstuffed blender whose lid is precariously in danger of popping off. …
11 December 2025VerifiedUser Review
D
drewwash@drewwash
★★★★☆ 8.0
The characters are honest to a fault. The movie has a great story arc and it is nice to see a movie where you know exactly who the leads are immediately, but you still care about the drama they're experiencing. Watching in the theatre is not required. …
17 December 2025VerifiedUser Review

Viewer Comments

Brent Marchant
Further insights are provided by Ella’s dutiful security detail chief (Kumail Nanjiani) and her trusted aide, Estelle (Julie Kavner), who doubles as the cinema experience’s narrator. However, as should be apparent by now, that’s a lot of ground to cover in two hours, which is why this material would have been a better fit for the small screen than the big one.
Andrew Nguyen
Everything about this worked perfectly. End of story.

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