It’s just… fine. The actors try hard, and Kathy Bates, as Brooke’s editor/mother-in-law, is fun as always. Efron is over-the-top goofy, and Nicole Kidman is ethereal in her beauty. 

Perhaps the saving grace of A Family Affair is that it doesn’t constantly rag on about the age difference, about the beautiful woman’s insecurities about being with a younger man, and about the younger man’s insistence that he’d prefer her over any woman in the world. It’s just a rom-com with some drama. Hollywood has finally made a movie without a gorgeous woman trying to convince us she’s plain, normal, or “ugly.”