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Laggies
Movie is about Megan a 20 year old with no career and having no worries of her future. When mark, her high school friend proposes, Megan freaks out and escapes for a week in the home of her new 16 year old friend, Annika who has a world-weary single dad. Soon in Megan’s life enters the right man she wishes for who connects the missing pieces of her life and makes her look at the better side of the world around her.
26 March 1985, Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK
10 February 1997, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
21 May 1996, USA
2 May 1980, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
June 21, 2016
Laggies soon goes off the rails, its plot becoming more contrived and characters increasingly erratic.
November 19, 2015
Every filmmaker is allowed a few career missteps. Lynn Shelton seems to have spent all hers on just one movie.
November 06, 2014
Shelton opts for a simple shooting style that emphasizes relationships and dialogue rather than trying to call attention to the filmmaker's talent.
January 09, 2015
While a bit hard to buy as an unmotivated screw-up, Knightley gives Megan an endearing bouncy quality, which jibes with the movie's pleasant tone and helps viewers believe Craig's feelings for Megan.
November 06, 2014
This is the first feature that the talented Lynn Shelton has directed from someone else's script, and it often seems like a premise trying to graduate into an actual story.
November 17, 2014
Shelton's comedy isn't just smart, but cheerfully wise; not just funny, but cleverly and endlessly so.
November 06, 2014
"Laggies" demonstrates that childhood is tough, but adulthood gives you a real drubbing.
November 06, 2014
We understand, you're having trouble growing up. Get on with it, and while you're doing so, amuse us. Luckily, the movie does a pretty good job at that while keeping things overly safe for its hapless heroine, Megan, played by Keira Knightley.
March 11, 2016
Plot implausibilities and Knightley's comedic deficiencies, however, ensure that proceedings never move much beyond the passable.
January 09, 2015
A shrewd little dramedy directed by a woman, written by a woman and told from a woman's perspective, which on those merits alone constitutes a rare and special film worth seeing.
August 16, 2016
Even if the film doesn't leave much to ponder past the closing credits, it's enjoyable while it's unfolding, doing justice to the strengths of Shelton's ever-expanding filmography.
February 13, 2015
The limbo between adolescence and adulthood provokes a shrug
