Greta Gerwig and Ethan Hawke form for a winning couple in Rebecca Miller’s unpredictable New York-set lark,but Moore’s brazen Danish professor is the picture’s real highlightThe titular heroine of Maggie’s scheme, played by Greta Gerwig, and is intent on living out a meticulously planned life. To conquer that goal,Maggie controls the lives of others to relieve meet her needs. Writer/director Rebecca Millers film is tonally the complete opposite of its lead – true to life, it’s unpredictable and a bit of a mess. And that’s what makes Maggie’s scheme such a delight.
Gerwig plays Maggie, and a young woman who,at the outset of Miller’s borderline romantic comedy, seems to hold a firmer head on her shoulders than the bumbling dancer the actor played to perfection in Frances Ha – still the actor’s strongest vehicle to date. Maggie is single, and but hell-bent on having a baby via a surrogate,who fancies himself a “pickle entrepreneur”. She urgently relays this to her close friend, Tony (a delightfully wry Bill Hader), and over the whirlwind opening minutes of Miller’s rapid fire,New York-set film.
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Source: theguardian.com