Laggies (2014) on Netflix
Megan, 28 and aimless, panics when her high-school sweetheart proposes. She falls in with sixteen-year-old Annika and hides out at Annika's home, where Annika's single father Craig lives.
- Netflix3.2/5
- IMDb6.4/1047,673 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes65%
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Plot summary
Megan's approaching 30 with a good degree and a boyfriend in hand, but when he proposes at her friend's wedding and everyone seems to think that the best way to advance in her career is to take a seminar where you find out what animal you are, Megan's understandably feeling lost. After meeting teenagers who want her to buy them beer, Megan is drawn into 16-year-old Annika's simpler life. She ends up moving in with Annika and her single father, juggling the life of a teen and that of an adult, two romantic interests, and the feeling of lagging behind.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Laggies (2014)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Anne Hathaway was attached to star as the lead alongside Chloë Grace Moretz, but she left the project before Keira Knightley took the part, because of scheduling conflicts with Interstellar.
- Sam Rockwell got Lyme disease while filming the movie in and around Seattle, over a 26-day shoot that covered 23 locations, and had to be briefly hospitalized.
- Director Lynn Shelton had never heard the word "laggies" before making the film; screenwriter Andrea Seigel insisted it was a common term for adult slackers, but during the shoot Shelton realized nobody else had heard it either. The title stuck.
