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Friday, October 17, 2025

Bob Trevino Likes It (2024)

Fortunately for Lily there are not one but two Bob Trevinos. Unfortunately for her, the one that is her father is a narcissistic man who holds love at a conditional arm’s length and provides his daughter with an itemized list of every expense it took to raise her. Lily, depsite all that, is a bubbly, wandering soul. Her high-spirited personality masks a muddied, traumatic childhood that she proudly and a little obliviously but sweetly owns. Her mother, a drug addict, left at an early age, and her father, a neglectful manipulator, raised her solo. Working as a live-in caretaker for the charmingly caustic Daphne (Lauren Spencer), Lily faces the world with light despite lacking a community of wires to help ignite her. Desperate for an unlikely, inopportune change of heart for her father during his latest silent treatment, she searches his name in Facebook and stumbles across a blank profile for a Bob Trevino. The man that she finds, no relation, is a timid construction manager, spending his days wishing for a raise and supporting the scrapbooking habit of his melancholy wife. He’s gentle. When he accepts Lily’s friend request, what begins as a simple inquiry into whether they’re related evolves into a n overly convenient but nonethe less tale of chosen family. It is hard to feel good about things sometimes, and if you are looking for a melancholy feel good movie, this fits the bill.

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