Up front, grown person finds themselves with the help of a precocious child who obviously understands the world better than they do is one of my favorite kinds of films. So I’m already onboard with Leighton Meester‘s upcoming drama Like Sunday, Like Rain, even without the addition of her boyfriend being played by Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong. Yes, it doesn’t look like the film is breaking any new ground. Debra Messing plays the cold, absentee mother who can give her son money but not love! Meester’s twenty-something doesn’t know as much about art history as her articulate twelve-year-old charge, but she can teach him to have fun and be a kid! But it looks sweet, and worth seeing if only to check if Armstrong can act.
