NOW SHOWING – MAGGIE’S PLAN (Friday, July 8 – Thursday, July 14)

MAGGIE’S PLAN:

Rated R 98 minutes
Rated R
98 minutes

Friday, July 8 – 7 pm,

Saturday, July 9 – 4 & 8 pm,

Sunday, July 10 – 4 & 8 pm,

Wednesday, July 13 – 7 pm,

and Thursday, July 14 – 7 pm.

Maggie Hardin (Greta Gerwig) is a vibrant and practical thirty-something New Yorker working in education, who without success in finding love, decides now is the time to have a child on her own. But when she meets John Harding (Ethan Hawke), an anthropology professor and struggling novelist, Maggie falls in love for the first time, and adjusts her plans for motherhood. Complicating matters, John is in an unhappy marriage with Georgette Harding (Julianne Moore), an ambitious academic who is driven by her work. With some help from Maggie’s best friends, married couple Tony (Bill Hader) and Felicia (Maya Rudolph), Maggie sets in motion a new plan that intertwines their lives and connects them in surprising and humorous ways. [Sony Pictures Classics]

Insider’s tip: “Without pushing or showing off, [Rebecca] Miller creates a breezy comedy that pulls you up short. Buoyed by faultless actors who mesh beautifully, Maggie’s Plan tickles you with laughs that can — suddenly or even days later — choke you up with emotion” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). Richard Roeper of The Chicago Sun-Times adds: “It’s a fine brew, equal parts cynical and whimsical, dark and sunny. It’s fairly slight but nearly great.”