KSL Movie Show review: ‘Babygirl’ is an interesting premise with the wrong cast
Dec 24, 2024, 11:30 AM | Updated: Dec 26, 2024, 1:45 pm
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SALT LAKE CITY — A high-powered CEO (Nicole Kidman) puts her career and family on the line when she’s drawn into a torrid affair with a much younger intern, Samuel (Harris Dickinson).
For twenty years, she’d been married to Antonio Banderas’s character, who apparently didn’t do it for her and never did. Ouch. Wait . . . what? Latin heartthrob Antonio Banderas was unsatisfying? Please. Also, the fact that a strong, empowered woman like Nicole Kidman was pretending to be a total submissive, crawling around on all fours for a snot-nosed lothario? No sale.
I do believe there is an interesting premise to be explored in “Babygirl.” I just don’t think they chose the right people to pull it off.
BABYGIRL (C+) Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity and language.
