Laggies (2014)
4/10
Failing To Reach Adulthood
29 August 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Megan is a woman in her late 20s who is first depicted as a teenager with her teenage friends fooling around, after which she has gotten an advanced degree in family counseling, but hated the job and ends up dropping out and living with her parents, basically having failed to reach true adulthood.

At one friend's wedding, a high school boyfriend proposes to her, upsetting her, and worse yet, she finds her father cheating with another woman. The movie shifts gears, and Megan drives off, upset, until she reaches a teenage girl and her friends and illegally buys them booze. They talk and exchange numbers, and she returns to see her boyfriend, who is ready to elope-but Megan makes up a story about going to a seminar to delay things. Afterward, the teenage girl asks Megan to impersonate her estranged mother at a school meeting, and she takes Megan to her home-only to be discovered by her lawyer father. Megan then makes up a story about needing a place to stay, and the father agrees.

There is more, but the problem with the whole movie is obvious-Megan is not merely immature, but dishonest with everyone, and though she tries to help people, she comes across as a user. Supposedly a romantic comedy, but has very little of either, and Megan never seems to grow up like we expected her to.
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