Laggies

2014
R
1h 39m

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

46K

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Sam Rockwell, Keira Knightley, and Chloë Grace Moretz in Laggies (2014)

A woman stuck in permanent adolescence lies to her fiance about going on a retreat and spends the time hanging out with new, much younger friends instead.

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Comedy Drama Romance

In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes. She takes an opportunity to escape for a week, hiding out in the house of her new 16-year-old friend Annika ... Read allIn the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes. She takes an opportunity to escape for a week, hiding out in the house of her new 16-year-old friend Annika and her world-weary single dad.In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes. She takes an opportunity to escape for a week, hiding out in the house of her new 16-year-old friend Annika and her world-weary single dad.

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IMDb RATING

6.4/10

46K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination

Trivia
Anne Hathaway was cast in the lead role but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts with the movies Song One (2014) and Interstellar (2014). She was replaced by Keira Knightley.

Goofs
The check note on the wine box is picked up by Sam Rockwell and he re-enters the house. In the next shot the note is attached to the wine box.

Quotes
Megan: You can't keep putting aside what you want for some imaginary future. You've gotta suck it up and go with your gut.

Alternate versions
Italian DVD is about 2 minutes longer. The scene that starts during the opening titles goes on and then cuts to where the US version starts showing a "10 Years Later" sign. Another brief conversation scene is from a different take and has a different, longer dialogue. Running time of Italian DVD, which is PAL, is 1:37:02. In NTSC that translates to 1:41:10. US edition is 1:39.13.

Connections
Featured in Film '72: Episode dated 5 November 2014 (2014)

Soundtracks
Such Great Heights
Written by Benjamin Gibbard and James Tamborello (as Jimmy Tamborello)
Performed by The Postal Service
Published by Where I'm Calling From Music (BMI) and Dying Songs (BMI)
Courtesy of Sub Pop Records

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Featured review

7/10

"You can't keep putting aside what you want for some imaginary future."

A woman who is approaching her thirties and still doesn't know what she wants from life (like most of us, I would say), accidentally meets a teenager and uses her to escape responsibility, at least for a short time. A romantic comedy elevated from mediocrity by a rather realistic depiction of the mental state that most of us go through at some point in our lives. Some go through it maturely and responsibly, even painlessly, but many bring themselves into tragicomic situations as the heroine of this film. Partly because I found myself in this story to some extent, and partly because of Keira Knightley and Chloë Grace Moretz, I have to rate it at least a little higher than it objectively deserves.

7/10