Kelly & Cal

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.

Kelly and Cal
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Directed by	Jen McGowan
Written by	Amy Lowe Starbin
Produced by	Adi Ezroni Mandy Tagger-Brockey
Starring	Juliette Lewis Jonny Weston Josh Hopkins Cybill Shepherd
Cinematography	Philip Lott
Edited by	David Hopper
Music by	Toby Chu
Production companies	Spring Pictures Mountaintop Productions Mad Dog Pictures
Distributed by	IFC Films
Release date	March 7, 2014 (2014-03-07)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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."^[1] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 64 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.^[2]

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."^[3]