Alex of Venice (2014) on Netflix
Alex is an environmental lawyer in Venice, California. Her artist husband George stays home with their son Dakota and her father Roger, then leaves. Her sister Lily moves in to help.
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- Netflix3.3/5
- IMDb5.8/103,550 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes74%
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Plot summary
Alex earns the family's living as an environmental lawyer in Venice, California, while her husband George, an artist, stays home with their school-aged son Dakota and with Alex's aging father Roger. George says he is unhappy and moves out. Roger asks Lily, Alex's younger sister and a clothing designer, to move in and help with Dakota. Alex also has a case coming against Frank, a property developer. Roger once worked as a television actor and refuses to accept that his memory is failing: he has been cast as Firs, an old servant, in a production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, and he cannot hold on to his lines and cues.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Alex of Venice (2014)
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- Chris Messina approached Don Johnson to play Alex's father Roger, but Johnson was not initially won over. Messina came to his house in North Los Angeles, and Johnson dragged him to his boys' basketball game and made him watch.
- Chris Messina directed Alex of Venice back-to-back while he was shooting The Mindy Project, editing at night after days on set. He called it grueling, maybe the dumbest thing, and said he would never do it again.
- Chris Messina cast himself as George in Alex of Venice, then about two weeks into the shoot tried to convince producer Jamie Patricof to hire somebody else, saying he thought other actors could have done a better job.
