The Family Plan is a 2023 American action comedy film. According to a Deadline report the movie became Apple TV+’s most watched movie ever.
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- The Family Plan is a 2023 American action comedy film.
- The movie was directed by Simon Cellan Jones.
- The screenplay was written by David Coggeshall.
- Produced by Apple Studios and Skydance Media and Mark Wahlberg’s Municipal Pictures.
- It stars Wahlberg, Michelle Monaghan, Zoe Colletti, Van Crosby, Saïd Taghmaoui, Maggie Q, and Ciarán Hinds.
- Production began in late 2022.
- The film was released by Apple TV+ on December 15, 2023.
- Deadline reported the film became Apple TV+’s most watched movie ever.
- Kyle Morgan complains in one scene that his new name isn’t a name at all, it’s a vehicle. The new name he’s been given is Van, which is the real name of the actor who plays Kyle Morgan: Van Crosby.
- Nina (Zoe Colletti) originally wants to be a journalism major with much urging from her mother (Michelle Monaghan). In real life, Michelle Monaghan studied journalism at Columbia University Chicago.
- Michelle Monaghan and Maggie Q both appeared in ‘Mission: Impossible 3’. (2006).
- Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Monaghan previously starred in Patriots Day (2016).
- Mark Wahlberg and Saïd Taghmaoui previously starred in Three Kings (1999).
- When Jessica (Michelle Monaghan’s character ) objects to her daughter wanting to go to Iowa, it’s go to a city 65 miles from where Michelle grew up (Winthrop Iowa)
- Although much of the first act is based in Buffalo, NY, the only location shots in the film are several brief flyovers of downtown and the family van later traveling over the ‘Skyway’ bridge and along the Lake Erie waterfront past the vacant land that was once home to the Bethlehem Steel mill.
- The casino/hotel, neighborhood, car dealership, and amusement park scenes were all shot in and around Atlanta, GA.
- Mccafrey instructs Dan/Sean to meet him at an old casino that’s 30 min north of the city but all the scenes from it show its proximity to the strip. With such a close view it’s seemingly just off-strip not 30 min north.
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 24% of 34 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.4/10.
- The website’s consensus reads: “Heavy on rote action and light on laughs, The Family Plan aimlessly imitates an array of films that tell similar stories — and often in more compelling fashion.”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 40 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating “mixed or average” reviews.
- Guy Lodge of Variety gave a negative review, calling the film a “strangely sluggish shoot-’em-up”.
- Calum Marsh writing for The New York Times gave a positive review; he praised director Jones saying that he “maintains a good handle on the comic-thriller tone and shoots the action with wit and creativity”.
- In August 2022, Apple Studios announced an action comedy film from Skydance Media and Municipal Pictures to star Mark Wahlberg.
- In October 2022, Michelle Monaghan and Saïd Taghmaoui joined the cast.
- Principal photography commenced in October 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia.
- The principal photography occures under the working title Holiday Road.
- A car dealership in Canton, Georgia was used as a location for the film.
- A helicopter was used to film aerial footage in downtown Buffalo, New York in early November.
- An ice cream shop in Clermont, Georgia was transformed into Lambert’s Diner for the film.
- In February 2023, Wahlberg filmed scenes at The Strat casino resort in Las Vegas and also wrapped filming.
