Ella McCay

2025

Action / Comedy / Drama

16
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 57% · 136 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 5271 5.3K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

James L. Brooks Photo
James L. Brooks

Top cast

Jamie Lee Curtis Photo
Jamie Lee Curtis as Helen
Woody Harrelson Photo
Woody Harrelson as Eddie McCay
Rebecca Hall Photo
Rebecca Hall as Claire McCay
Emma Mackey Photo
Emma Mackey as Ella McCay
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English 2.0
PG-13
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1 hr 54 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by thecanadian-23317 4 / 10

I wanted to like it. Emma Mackey deserved better

This movie is so.... odd. It has some really good small pieces, and to be honest, there's the makings of a great movie here somewhere. But unfortunately it just doesn't coalesce. It feels like there were either major rewrites, or something seriously went down in the editing room.At the end of the day, its biggest issue is that there's simply too many side plots going on. We have: Ella's career (which incorporates a couple of plot lines), her marriage, her brother, her father, her bodyguard... the list goes on. The brother could have been cut entirely (which is funny, given that what I think is the movie's best scene is with the brother), and the father plot line didn't add much either.I think if the movie had cut a lot of the family side plots, refocused the movie to be about Ella wanting to get stuff done as a politician but being unable to (which is in the movie, but gets lost among the numerous plot threads) in addition to focusing on her marriage and the scandal, it would have been a far better movie.It's not completely without merit, I think anyone giving it a 1 is exaggerating. As mentioned at the beginning, there's some really great individual scenes sprinkled in the movie. But overall it has very very deep flaws that really drag it down.
Reviewed by linda-glass 4 / 10

Not great unfortunately

This film is all over the place... there isn't a coherent storyline that sticks. The jokes do not land either, was not funny in any way AT ALL. I was looking forward to this as the amazing Jamie Lee Curtis is in it as is another of my favourites Woody Harrelson. I think the actors struggle to make this plot (or lack of) work but as much as they try it just doesn't work. It is definitely not recommended. I don't score 4/10 often but this deserves the score I'm sorry to say. Have a great day.
Reviewed by JustGeevs 4 / 10

Ooofta!

Looking at the cast, I went in with modest optimism...maybe a solid 6 out of 10. I expected a sweet, easy holiday rom-com that required little more than popcorn and suspension of disbelief. Instead, what I got was an awkward, tonally confused mess that mistook cringe for charm and randomness for humor. The pacing dragged, the emotional beats never landed, and by the end it felt like a complete waste of 90 minutes of my life. At least the popcorn was good.
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