Kelly and Cal is a 2014 American comedy-drama film directed by Jen McGowan, written by Amy Lowe Starbin, and starring Juliette Lewis, Jonny Weston, and Cybill Shepherd. Its plot follows an ex-punk rocker-turned-suburban housewife who becomes friends with a troubled 17-year-old boy.
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Cast
Juliette Lewis as Kelly
Jonny Weston as Cal
Josh Hopkins as Josh
Cybill Shepherd as Bev
Lucy Owen as Julie
Ken Marks as Bill
Margaret Colin as Janice
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 71% of 35 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.1/10. The website's consensus reads: "Kelly & Cal is a compellingly offbeat treat for fans of character-driven drama -- and a showcase for Juliette Lewis' formidable gifts." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 64 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
Rodrigo Perez of IndieWire wrote that "while Kelly & Cal flirts with interesting concepts under a superficial dynamic you haven’t seen paired before, ultimately its narrative is both familiar and predictable."