The best free love in Maggie's plan
By Jenny A.
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In Rebecca Miller’s witty modern romantic comedy Maggie’s plan, Greta Gerwig portrays Maggie Hardin, 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 eccentric and hilarious 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. Maggie learns that sometimes destiny should be left to its own devices. This film is a sweet, sophisticated offbeat romantic comedy, witty with unexpected complexities of modern romance. John (Ethan Hawke) has his best performance even Maggie seems to save him, his character is taking his own turn at self-absorption while Maggie supports him and cares for their child. Obviously she is very supportive and Georgette Harding (Julianne Moore) has many good comical chops and the cast as being in “near-perfect harmony”, mixing heart and humor in a story of the delightful variability of relationships over the course of time.
