Maggie's Plan
Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha) is Maggie in this screwball comedy from writer-director Rebecca Miller (Personal Velocity). Maggie is a young woman whose determination to have a child involves her in a love triangle with an unhappy academic (Ethan Hawke) and his eccentric critical-theorist wife (Julianne Moore). Co-stars Maya Rudolph and Bill Hader.
"Maggie wants a baby, but she's never sustained a relationship longer than six months. She solicits a sperm donation from a Brooklyn pickle entrepreneur - no strings attached - but has hardly even begun the artificial-insemination process when she consummates a budding romance with John, an unhappily married academic hailed as "the bad boy of fictocritical anthropology." Maggie's rejuvenating enthusiasm lures John away from his wife, domineering Danish critical theorist Georgette Norgaard, and the two settle down and have a daughter together. Everything has gone according to Maggie's plan - so why isn't she happy? And what sort of meddlesome scheme will she concoct next?" (Toronto International Film Festival)
2015Rating: PG99 minsUSA
ComedyRomance
- Director:
- Rebecca Miller ('The Private Lives of Pippa Lee', 'Personal Velocity: Three Portraits')
- Writer:
- Rebecca MillerKaren Rinaldi
- Cast:
- Greta GerwigEthan HawkeJulianne MooreTravis FimmelBill HaderMaya Rudolph
Maggie's Plan / Reviews
The Washington Post
True to its title, "Maggie's Plan" is so crazy that it just might work - and it does.
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The New York Times
A modest movie, reluctant, like its heroine, to make large claims or excessive demands. But it is also cleareyed, generous and funny - tart but not sour, sweet but not too sweet, like one of Guy's pickles.
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The Guardian
It's unpredictable and a bit of a mess. And that’s what makes Maggie’s Plan such a delight.
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The Australian
It's Gerwig who dominates the film with another incisive, funny portrait of a conflicted, vulnerable yet determined modern woman.
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SBS
Like the best of those American romantic comedies of remarriage from the 1930s and '40s – and like the Woody Allen movies we wish he’d make again – this one makes serious matters feel light.
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Hollywood Reporter
One part vintage Woody Allen, a few parts Screwball-era comedy of remarriage, and a vigorous shake of Gerwig herself...
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Empire Magazine
A perfectly cast comedy of manners that couches complex emotional questions in joyous farce and continues Gerwig's reign as the undisputed Queen Of Quirk.
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