Maggie’s Plan
53rd New York Film Festival
September 25 - October 11, 2015
Rebecca Miller’s New York romantic comedy, starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, and Julianne Moore, is as wise, funny, and suspenseful as a Jane Austen novel.
Rebecca Miller, Greta Gerwig, Julianne Moore, Ethan Hawke, Maya Rudolph, and Travis Fimmel in person for 10/4 screening
Rebecca Miller in person for 10/5 screening
Rebecca Miller’s new film is as wise, funny, and suspenseful as a Jane Austen novel. Greta Gerwig shines brightly in the role of Maggie, a New School administrator on the verge of completing her life plan with a donor-fathered baby when she meets John (Ethan Hawke), a soulful but unfulfilled adjunct professor. John is unhappily married to a Columbia-tenured academic superstar wound tighter than a coiled spring (Julianne Moore). Maggie and the professor commiserate, share confidences, and fall in love. And where most contemporary romantic comedies end, Miller’s film is just getting started. In the tradition of Woody Allen and Paul Mazursky, Miller approaches the genre of the New York romantic comedy with relish and loving energy. With Bill Hader and Maya Rudolph as Maggie’s married-with-children friends, drawn to defensive sarcasm like moths to a flame, and Travis Fimmel as her donor-in-waiting.
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