Maggie's Plan

<i>She's wonderful - she's just kind of destroying my life.</i><br/><br/>Maggie (Greta Gerwig) is a young single woman in Brooklyn who is determined to have a baby on her own through a surrogate. However she meets John (Ethan Hawke) an attractive older university professor caught in an unhappy marriage and they start a relationship. Maggie's rejuvenating enthusiasm lures John away from his wife the domineering Danish critical theorist Georgette Norgaard (Julianne Moore).<br/><br/>The film moves forward three years and the couple have married and settled down with a daughter together. Everything has gone according to Maggie's plan so why isn't she happy? And what sort of meddlesome scheme will she concoct next?<br/> <br/><i>Maggie's Plan</i> based on an unpublished novel by Karen Rinaldi is both an affectionate send-up of highbrow academic culture and a treatise on modern self-realization. Rebecca Miller exhibits her characteristic sensitivity to female experience but with a playfulness given freer rein than ever before in her work.<br/><br/>The film was premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2015 and received its official US release in May 2016.