Mercury in Retrograde is a 2017 American drama film written and directed by Michael Glover Smith, and starring French actress Roxane Mesquida.

The film follows three couples from Chicago as they navigate personal challenges while vacationing together for a weekend in southwestern Michigan.

[3] In an interview at RogerEbert.com, Smith discussed the notion of vacations being "anything but an escape" as the impetus for the film: "The fact that the characters are away from their daily routine serves as a catalyst to examine their lives and relationships.

He also mentioned German director F. W. Murnau as an influence, noting how the films Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and City Girl are "about couples moving from either the city to the country or vice versa, and about the kind of psychological shift that occurs to accompany the geographical shift".

Among the positive notices were a three-star review by the Chicago Sun-Times' Richard Roeper who called it "absolutely beautiful...a smart, funny, quietly effective and authentic slice of older millennial life",[13] and a Chicago Reader review that deemed it "an observant, nuanced indie".