Laggies

2014 "Acting your age is so overrated."
6.4| 1h40m| R| en
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Overeducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think about her future and no one to relate to, Megan is comfortable lagging a few steps behind - while her friends check off milestones and celebrate their new grown-up status. When her high-school sweetheart proposes, Megan panics and- given an unexpected opportunity to escape for a week - hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year old Annika and Annika's world-weary single dad Craig.

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Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
arjunflamingfeather Found this movie entertaining and absorbing. Keira Knightley who stands through as an important carer giver and taker; is like an imaginary sister. The picture is a source to understand that 'life is not perfect'; with ups and downs in relationships which are essentially by blood. The father and daughter; Keira and father. The mother and child; Keira and mother are both relationships where meaning can and is derived; watch out for life and death under the visual stimulus. Visual treats are Keira herself with hands by side of a teenager who she meets. The methods to instill justice over the whereabouts of life could be claimed as a plot narrative. In the end an appreciation of circumstances are found or not meant literally by Hollywood; is the Indian appreciation of this movie. Letting nothing go to dumpsters: life consisting of food, shelter and clothing suits us well through the movie screening. Terrific visual movie with suitable buddies.
krocheav Yet another so-called 'warm and tender' love story written by, and for, trendy young mods who seem to know very little about the subject of "love". Even the title given to this story is as fake as any notions the writer offers on how to make a 'loving-commitment'. "Lacking" may have been a more apt title. In Britain, they changed the title to "Say When" (an equally non-event title).Peppered with schoolyard type vulgar language this movie tries to convince us that a 28yr old young woman who's about to get married to her long time lover - would step out of her friends wedding reception for a little fresh air, tell her fiancé she'll be back in a moment, then picks up with a bunch of teens off the street, buys them booze, get tanked, hangs out with them, and decides she will go home with one of the teenage girls for a sleep over - it's here she gets caught out by the girls 35-40yr old father...If you need any help to guess the rest then this could be the movie for you... Not sure why British Keira Knightley was cast as Meagan the 28yr old American but imagine it has something to do with marketing. Cast wise, Chloe Grace Moretz comes off best as Annika the teenage daughter living with her dad, who is troubled by her mothers walk-out on her family - although this theme could have had promise it's explored somewhat superficially, as with most of the sociological aspects within this at times, trite script. Sam Rockwell as Annika's dad lays on the 'I'm-a-super-cool-sorta-guy' mannerisms to a point of irritation. This style of movie has become so predictably a 'Sundance-indi' type production-that some just may prefer to leave the room.Some of the songs and music by Benjamin Gibbard offer interest, especially his song "It's Never Too Late". Much else points to a case of Arrested Development and while it will appeal to certain teen audiences, makes you wish Hollywood's new league (in this case mostly women) would dedicate just a little more time to growing up.
Instant_Palmer Wasn't expecting to like this film as much as I did. First, Sam Rockwell has got to be one of the best actors to work with. He is naturally cool and his confidence on screen must be contagious. Have never seen who put anything but an A-Game performance out there. Second, no one plays the girl we all want to fall in love with (who is sincere, cool, fun, and romantic) than Kiera Knightley. Kiera and Sam? Would never see it working on paper. Totally worked on the screen. Third, Chloe Grace Moretz is one fine young actress whose resume is amazing at such a young age. Expect to see Oscars on a frequent basis from her. Finally, Lynn Shelton paces this film perfectly. Her best effort to date. Nicely done! 👏👏👏
phoenix 2 Meg is a woman in her late twenties who hasn't figured out what she wants to do with her life and she still lives as a teenager. When her long term boyfriend proposes to her, she takes a week off in the house of a teenage girl and her father. I don't know why exactly but I enjoyed laggies. Sure it's not the movie that I will remember after some time, but it is interesting to watch how the characters bond, how Meg finds herself more suited to be friends with a teenage girl than her all grown up old friends. The story is a little odd, but at some points not original at all. I guess everything is on a medium level, not too bad but not too great either. And so I give Laggies a 4 out of 10.