In a modern take on the classic remarriage comedy, Maggie’s Plan follows its titular heroine (Greta Gerwig) as she tries her best to duck and dodge cupid’s arrows as she dashes toward a dream of single motherhood, a decidedly tricky endeavor. Maggie’s only met with folly and frustration as she tries to shape life and love to her liking, and things take a turn for disaster when a family of four become victims to her outrageous schemes.
Writer/director Rebecca Miller proves to have a sharp screwball sense with a comedy that channels Woody Allen neurosis to lightheartedly lampoon millennial angst and faux-intellectualism. There’s a post-feminist vibe permeating the film as well, but any weightiness or pretension that brings to the fold is counterbalanced by Gerwig, whose performance is characteristically disarming and delightfully vapid. The surging actress’ bubbly eccentricities are her greatest asset, and Miller’s...
Writer/director Rebecca Miller proves to have a sharp screwball sense with a comedy that channels Woody Allen neurosis to lightheartedly lampoon millennial angst and faux-intellectualism. There’s a post-feminist vibe permeating the film as well, but any weightiness or pretension that brings to the fold is counterbalanced by Gerwig, whose performance is characteristically disarming and delightfully vapid. The surging actress’ bubbly eccentricities are her greatest asset, and Miller’s...
- 5/20/2016
- by Bernard Boo
- We Got This Covered
Check out the first trailer and poster for Sony Pictures Classics Maggie’S Plan.
Starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Bill Hader and Maya Rudolph, the film opens in New York and La on May 20th.
In Rebecca Miller’s witty modern romantic comedy Maggie’S Plan, Greta Gerwig portrays Maggie Hardin, a vibrant and practical thirty-something New Yorker working in education, who without success in finding love, decides now is the time to have a child on her own. But when she meets John Harding (Hawke), an anthropology professor and struggling novelist, Maggie falls in love for the first time, and adjusts her plans for motherhood.
Complicating matters, John is in an unhappy marriage with Georgette Harding (Moore), an ambitious academic who is driven by her work.
With some help from Maggie’s eccentric and hilarious best friends, married couple Tony (Hader) and Felicia (Rudolph), Maggie sets in...
Starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Bill Hader and Maya Rudolph, the film opens in New York and La on May 20th.
In Rebecca Miller’s witty modern romantic comedy Maggie’S Plan, Greta Gerwig portrays Maggie Hardin, a vibrant and practical thirty-something New Yorker working in education, who without success in finding love, decides now is the time to have a child on her own. But when she meets John Harding (Hawke), an anthropology professor and struggling novelist, Maggie falls in love for the first time, and adjusts her plans for motherhood.
Complicating matters, John is in an unhappy marriage with Georgette Harding (Moore), an ambitious academic who is driven by her work.
With some help from Maggie’s eccentric and hilarious best friends, married couple Tony (Hader) and Felicia (Rudolph), Maggie sets in...
- 3/3/2016
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
After hitting a variety of major film festivals over the last six months or so (including Toronto, Sundance, New York, and Berlin), Maggie’s Plan, the latest feature from Rebecca Miller (The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee), will arrive this summer. Starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Bill Hader and Maya Rudolph, it follows a thirty-something whose plans for motherhood change when she meets a married man.
Screening to mostly agreeable reviews, The Guardian‘s Nigel M. Smith said, “Writer/director Rebecca Miller’s film is tonally the complete opposite of its lead – true to life, it’s unpredictable and a bit of a mess. And that’s what makes Maggie’s Plan such a delight.” The first trailer has now arrived ahead of a May release and one can check it out below, along with the poster.
In Rebecca Miller’s witty...
Screening to mostly agreeable reviews, The Guardian‘s Nigel M. Smith said, “Writer/director Rebecca Miller’s film is tonally the complete opposite of its lead – true to life, it’s unpredictable and a bit of a mess. And that’s what makes Maggie’s Plan such a delight.” The first trailer has now arrived ahead of a May release and one can check it out below, along with the poster.
In Rebecca Miller’s witty...
- 2/25/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
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Far too often, comedy-dramas orbit around a story of two (or more) people falling madly in love, revelling the Honeymoon period all the while tackling those emotional teething problems as they arise. But what about the period thereafter? That’s something Rebecca Miller (The Ballad Of Jack And Rose, The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee) will look to tackle in Maggie’s Plan, which places Greta Gerwig in the role of the woman with a devious scheme.
Delicate and sweet despite centering on a relationship gone awry, it’s really the creative pool of talent that Miller has assembled that lends Maggie’s Plan its innate charm. Starring as Maggie’s significant other is Ethan Hawke, a wide-eyed professor who dreams big of becoming an author, but as the story evolves it seems Hawke’s John Harding may not be marriage material after all, leading Gerwig...
Far too often, comedy-dramas orbit around a story of two (or more) people falling madly in love, revelling the Honeymoon period all the while tackling those emotional teething problems as they arise. But what about the period thereafter? That’s something Rebecca Miller (The Ballad Of Jack And Rose, The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee) will look to tackle in Maggie’s Plan, which places Greta Gerwig in the role of the woman with a devious scheme.
Delicate and sweet despite centering on a relationship gone awry, it’s really the creative pool of talent that Miller has assembled that lends Maggie’s Plan its innate charm. Starring as Maggie’s significant other is Ethan Hawke, a wide-eyed professor who dreams big of becoming an author, but as the story evolves it seems Hawke’s John Harding may not be marriage material after all, leading Gerwig...
- 2/24/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Last week on Downton Abbey, Carson and Mrs. Hughes finally tie the know, Tom Branson comes back, and Anna is now pregnant. So what kind of drama is going to unfold in this week’s episode of the PBS series? In season 6, episode 4, a surprise guest drops in in Downton Abbey. Guess who it is? One of your favorite stars, Rose Leslie is back on the show! Rose plays Gwen only this time in her return she isn’t a maid. As a matter of fact she has a new last name: Mrs. Harding. That’s right, she’s married John Harding.
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Downton Abbey Spoilers: A Surprise Guest Drops In...
- 1/24/2016
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
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