A Panned Caper Slapped With a $10M Lawsuit Finds Streaming Paradise
The feature-length directorial debut of Ralphie from A Christmas Story doesn’t exactly come across as a harbinger of cinematic excellence, but even at that, Peter Billingsley’s Couples Retreat was a great deal more woeful than anyone could have imagined. Reading from the Adam Sandler/Happy Madison playbook of “unnecessarily expensive star-studded comedy set in a glamorous sun-kissed location for reasons,” the $60 million romp was admittedly a sizeable hit at the box office after somehow conspiring to earn $172 million…