Maggie's Plan (2015)
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Duration: 98 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Rebecca Miller
Stars: Greta Gerwig, Julianne Moore and Ethan Hawke
IMDb score:
6,2 (18.847)
Releasedate: 27 April 2016
Maggie's Plan plot
"Chapter One: Maggie Meets John"
Maggie wants a baby, but she has never been in a relationship that lasted more than 6 months. She decides to accept a no-obligation sperm donation from a Brooklyn pickle entrepreneur. However, she has barely begun the artificial insemination process when she falls in love with John, an unhappily married academic.
Actors and actresses
Maggie Hardin
John Harding
Georgette Nørgaard
Tony
Guy Childers
Felicia
Kliegler
Al Bentwaithe
Paul
Justine
Reviews & comments
IH88
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- 9424 messages
- 3155 votes
“You've revoked your thinking license.”
Maggie's Plan is a nice indie film, which unfortunately remains a bit flat. The film could have used some spice because now it all ripples on a bit too quietly. Gerwig is very strong as Maggie, a woman who wants a child and eventually finds a man in John (Hawke) with whom she falls in love and with whom she has a child.
Unfortunately, she finds out that she and John don't fit together very well, and that John and his ex-wife fit together much better. The much film never gets too dramatic, but has a refreshing lightness about it. And a lot of humour. Especially Julianne Moore with her terrible accent makes you laugh. Nice film that is a bit too ordinary to make a real impression.
Collins
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- 6823 messages
- 4064 votes
Writer-director Rebecca Miller's Maggie's Plan begins as a charming comedy in the vein of an early Woody Allen. The ambiance has similarities. The titular Maggie is a neurotic intellectual living in New York. Maggie is played by Greta Gerwig. Always fun. She plays Maggie in her typical sympathetic unstructured way. She can't find her happiness and talks about it a lot. She talks a lot. Also about other things. The other characters do the same.
The film lives almost entirely on the pleasantly spoken dialogues that are sometimes sharp and funny, but eventually also created a somewhat sour taste. Excess harms, I suspect. The spoken word is so emphatically present that the image suffers. Almost everything is caught and astutely verbalized and not visualized. Sometimes it's a bit much. Sometimes I longed for peace. To a beautiful soundless fragment with expressiveness. Those fragments are few.
After the somewhat predictable beginning, the story takes a few twists, which surprise without flourishing very spectacularly. Maggie looks less rudderless and very determinedly embraces her way to happiness. She is still neurotic. The charming comedy of the beginning turns into a comedy with more absurd and harsher accents. There is also room for other characters to show themselves.
Julianne Moore plays such a character and forms an intriguing contrast to Maggie. Ethan Hawke enters as a would-be writer dressed in a touch of eccentricity. An amusing love triangle develops, characterized by the words: we're miserable, but we're also happy. And that is precisely the way in which the characters experience the tragicomedy called life.
Maggie's Plan is a film with neurotic, obsessed, self-centered and sometimes oppressive characters. Visually very thin. Verbally sometimes interesting and sometimes entertaining.
yeyo
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- 6335 messages
- 4524 votes
The whole may be entertaining, but what a pernicious film. An anti-romantic comedy that fails on points where even the most banal TV movie usually has something sensible to say. The worst part is that 'Maggie's Plan' knowingly fails. The film deliberately misunderstands the notion of infatuation as the mutual disabling of human reason - how it should be. Instead, we see a bunch of hypocritical snobs blowing each other off with quirkiness. Some virile Don Juanism is absent from these characters who are drawn to mutual valorization with each other's academic/intellectual work. Bah. What a disconsolate wallow in impotence. The worst part is that at one point Hawke and Gerwig's characters have to play out the whole concept of "manic, destructive infatuation" and end up in some clandestine gambling den in Chinatown - where they rent a hotel room in the bargain. Not only does this moment seem very forced, but I also feel indignant that these types of people apparently have 'access' to such a gate of joy - it's almost cultural appropriation (ed.: not of Chinese culture of course, but of the dandy / flaneur way of life).
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