![]() ![]() There is a lavish house party – that staple of any sex comedy – where everything goes south. The arranged couple take scenic walks by the Montauk bay and shoot hoops at the arcade. Lawrence convinced Feldman to defer studies at the prestigious Harvard University to be her co-star. More or less, No Hard Feelings adheres to the comedy template set by its frisky forebears: What begins as resentment gives way to begrudging respect, then burgeoning fondness. She drives him home – where he promptly maces his would-be kidnapper. Maddie plays seductress, luring him in with a femme fatale husk in her voice and a villainous glimmer in her eyes. Maddie's mission, per Percy's parents, is to yank him out of his coddled cocoon and into the hedonistic pleasures of the world: drinking, partying, brawling naked with a crew of hooligans who nab their clothes while they're skinny-dipping.Ībove all, the deal must remain a secret.Īnd so the unlikely duo converge over a concocted meet-cute at the animal adoption centre where Percy volunteers. He's the type to wear a three-piece suit to a dive bar. He spends his days gaming on a comically outsized VR headset and cuddling his soft toys. Poor, sweet Percy is fresh out of high school and sports an anime T-shirt. ![]() The nebbish young fellow, Percy (newcomer Andrew Barth Feldman), is every bit as ill-adjusted as his parents have warned. "When left his audition, the door closed and we all looked at each other and we were like, 'That's our Percy,'" Lawrence told ET. Or so goes the apocryphal tale, at least – in which director and screenwriter Gene Stupnitsky ( Jury Duty The Office) showed a similar real-life ad to Lawrence and eventually enticed her out of an acting hiatus. It would seem overly neat if it wasn't based on an actual online listing. The payment on completion? A swanky sedan. She's an Uber driver whose car has just been towed, axing her primary income source and leaving her desperate for fast cash.Įnter: a Craigslist ad as fortuitous as it is deranged, written by a pair of WASP-y helicopter parents (Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti) seeking an "intelligent, kind, and attractive" woman to date their dorky son and prepare him for the debaucheries of college life. Lawrence is Maddie, a down-on-her-luck 30-something rapidly running out of options to fork up the property tax for her house – a sprawling Montauk dwelling left to her by her late mother. This is a film that oscillates mostly between exposition and gags about genitalia: squashed against a windscreen, caught in a paper finger trap, or victim of possibly the hardest groin thwack ever captured on screen. ( Supplied: Sony Pictures)Ī wiener joke best sums up this whole shebang – emphasis on bang. The screenplay is co-written by director Gene Stupnitsky and John Phillips (Dirty Grandpa) and inspired by a real-life Craiglist ad. ![]()
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