Maggie's Plan

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Shes wonderful - shes just kind of destroying my life. Maggie (Greta Gerwig) is a young single woman in Brooklyn who is determined to have a baby on her own through a surrogate. However, she meets John (Ethan Hawke), an attractive, older university professor, caught in an unhappy marriage, and they start a relationship. Maggies rejuvenating enthusiasm lures John away from his wife, the domineering Danish critical theorist Georgette Norgaard (Julianne Moore). The film moves forward three years and the couple have married and settled down with a daughter together. Everything has gone according to Maggies plan, so why isnt she happy And what sort of meddlesome scheme will she concoct next Maggie's Plan, based on an unpublished novel by Karen Rinaldi, is both an affectionate send-up of highbrow academic culture and a treatise on modern self-realization. Rebecca Miller exhibits her characteristic sensitivity to female experience, but with a playfulness given freer rein than ever before in her work. The film was premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2015 and received its official US premiere in May 2016.

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Maggies Plan is not nostalgic. It doffs a manic pixie dream girls hat to the past, but its bang up to date in asking whether heterosexual relationships will survive among the young, should they become superfluous to species continuation . . . Maggies Plan is a film highly invested in the dynamics of marriage . . . Millers plan, then, isnt just to send you home on a high. Its to make you address fundamental preconceptions about yourself. At heart, her film is a cautionary fable about the fallacy of trying to cheat fate -- Catherine Shoard * Guardian *
A delight -- Nigel M Smith * Guardian *
Maggies Plan is nicely crafted on all levels * Variety *
It must have been a nice break for [Julianne] Moore to do something that isnt weepy or harrowing, and its certainly a joy for us in the audience * Vanity Fair *

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Rebecca Miller is the author of the short story collection Personal Velocity, her feature film adaptation of which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance; The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, which she also adapted for the screen, and Jacobs Folly. Her other films include Angela and The Ballad of Jack and Rose.