{"id":5773,"date":"2016-06-16T06:40:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T10:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2016-07-12T06:27:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T10:27:41","slug":"maggies-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=5773","title":{"rendered":"Maggie’s Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ethan Hawke & Greta Gerwig in Maggie’s Plan<\/p><\/div>\n

Tons of history and your mom tell you falling for a married man is a chancy way to find happiness and a father for your baby. In this romantic comedy by writer-director Rebecca Miller (trailer<\/a>), the unlikely happens and aspiring novelist John Harding (played by Ethan Hawke) actually divorces his self-absorbed, chilly wife Georgette (Julianne Moore) and marries the girl. They have a lovely baby. A couple of years on, though, the marriage is just not working.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when Maggie (Greta Gerwig) develops her plan. She\u2019ll try to get John and Georgette back together.<\/p>\n

There are some nice moments and some funny moments, though the comedy is never quite as screwball as it might have been. As a tale of female manipulation, Maggie\u2019s efforts don\u2019t reach the delicious complexity of Lady Susan Vernon \u00a0in Love & Friendship<\/a><\/em>, also in theaters now. \u00a0Lady Susan plows ahead like an ocean liner, let the devil take the hindmost, and that creates a more comic effect than the rather more realistic angsty New Yorkers in Maggie\u2019s web.<\/p>\n

Bill Hader and Maya Rudolph are a prickly married couple, long-time friends of Maggie, stuck to each other like burrs. Mina Sundwall is John And Georgette\u2019s teenage daughter, a perfect adolescent cynic.<\/p>\n

Gerwig gives an engaging performance, Hawke is always interesting, and Julianne Moore shines as the ambitious academic\u2014with a Danish accent, no less. There\u2019s a real New York feel to the film, too. Says Christy Lemire<\/a> in RogerEbert.com, director Miller \u201ctruly gets the city\u2019s rhythms and idiosyncracies, and her dialogue frequently sparkles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> critics\u2019 rating: 84%; audiences 59%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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