Saturday, June 20, 2015

Laggies 2014


Laggies


     Megan is filling in for her father’s advertising sign twirler as a temporary job.  She is 29, she has an advanced degree, plenty of friends and is still with her high school boyfriend.  Megan is feeling stuck in her life, she needs to go to career seminars but she doesn’t want to.  She starts lying about what she’s doing and she meets 16 year-old Annika and her friends outside a grocery store.  They ask Megan to buy them some booze since they ‘accidently’ forgot their ID’s and they don’t ‘look’ old enough to purchase for themselves.  Megan buys what they want and then she hangs out with them.  She becomes friends with Annika and starts to live with her to have a real break from her own life and friends.
     In ‘real’ life what does a 29 year-old woman have in common with the high school crowd?  Megan is just barely able to pose as Annika’s mother?  This is a typical slacker movie but this time the slacker is not Ben Stiller!!  3* (This movie is OK) 
   
99 min, Comedy directed by Lynn Shelton with Keira Knightley, Chloe Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell,  Rocki DuCharme, Sara Lynne Wright, Larissa Schmitz, Phillip Abraham, Ellie Kemper, Maura Lindsay.

Note:  Imdb 6.5 out of 10, 69% critic 50% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2*.










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