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Yes - the title of a Paul Simon song - but this is what the movie is about. We have some great food being cooked and some scenes that are about things other than food or relationships, but the basic thrust of this film is about a father and son really getting to know each other and liking the result.

The boy only wants to hang with dad, but dad thinks he needs to do things with the boy to make him happy. A mother and ex who really is concerned for the boy, not herself, helps the relationship grow.

Through some contrived circumstances, the father and son are together on a trip through the south of America and with social media's blessings, come to realize they really like each other.

OK - the foodies have some food porn thrust at them - but the relationship between father and son drives this film.

The ending is predicable - but what is not is the friendship and trust that a former employee shows the chef as he helps him with the lessons needed to show the son how to cope in a real kitchen.

Being a former Chicagoan - I can only say I give it a full thumbs up!

Before Magnum PI told us about another day in Paradise, James Mitchner and his Adam Troy lived it for us on the black and white miniature silver screen in our living room. These episodes were my first taste of Island adventure that I have feasted on many times since then. The shows were very adventuresome for the time but they were also exciting and demanded our attention as we watched.

All my memories of the show are good and I too wish that someone would release the shows in a boxed DVD set for us "real" baby bloomers who watched TV in our very early teen years.

I highly recommend any of the episodes for anyone who thinks McGarret is overkill and wants to see a normal person get in and out of trouble without any special effects creating the explosions we see on current shows.

If only the old TV networks would pick this up or if digital recording was available in the 1950's.

The film is billed as a comedy and will indeed leave you laughing at many of the situations the central characters get themselves in and out of. The movie should be viewed as a satire of the great American sales and marketing force on the global marketplace.

A hot shot marketing guru from corporate is assigned to help sales down under. He quickly finds a different pace of life and cultural values that he finds hard to adjust to. He continues on "his way" even down to the music for a new series of commercials. He knows "his way" worked well in the U.S. so it should work well anywhere.

Humorous side trips make the journey enjoyable as the guru quickly finds a large area that has no Coca Cola sales. He goes to investigate and finds a local soft drink bottler has the entire area to himself.

The guru uses every gorilla marketing trick he knows to bring the local bottler into the Coke family, but the local bottler resists and even offers Coke a deal. Coke invades the local's territory and the local realizes he cannot win against the Coke attack.

Coke's decisive win costs the company the guru as he finally begins to understand that other things in life, emotions and cultural values, are more important than business wins.

I enjoyed the film and recommend it to you, especially if you want to see a funny version of the 60's novel "The Ugly American."