Maggie's Plan
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| Directed by | Rebecca Miller |
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| Written by | Rebecca Miller |
| Story by | Karen Rinaldi |
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| Music by | Michael Rohatyn |
| Cinematography | Sam Levy |
| Edited by | Sabine Hoffmann |
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| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
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98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
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| Box office | $4.9 million |
Maggie's Plan is a 2015 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and written by Rebecca Miller, based on the original story by Karen Rinaldi. The film stars Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Travis Fimmel, Wallace Shawn, Ida Rohatyn, Monte Greene, and Julianne Moore.
The film had its world premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2015.Sony Pictures Classics released the film on May 20, 2016.
Maggie Harden, a director of business for the art and design students at a university, decides she wants to have a child and enlists a former college acquaintance, Guy Childers, a former maths student to donate his sperm.
At university, she gets to know John Harding, a "ficto-critical anthropologist", who is married to a tenured professor at Columbia. into each other repeatedly on campus, John confides in Maggie that he is writing a novel. Maggie begins reading it and they start meeting on a regular basis to talk about the novel.
Maggie attempts to inseminate herself but is interrupted by the doorbell. It is John, who confesses that he is in love with her and wants to be the father of her child.
Three years later Maggie and John are married and they have a daughter, Lily. Maggie repeatedly finds herself having to put her professional goals on the back burner to take care of Lily and her two step-children and to support John's writing. Taking Lily for a walk she runs into Guy, who initially thinks Lily is his daughter but Maggie tells him that Lily is John's child.
Maggie goes to see Georgette, John's ex-wife, at a book signing. She approaches Georgette and tells her that she knows Georgette is still in love with John, and that she wants to help them get back together. Georgette decides to go along with the plan, and asks for Maggie's help getting John to attend a conference which she will also be attending. At the conference Georgette and John make up and sleep together. Returning home, John confesses everything to Maggie who tells him he belongs with Georgette.
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