So when an actual woman with some amount of experience tells him he’s hot, his confidence levels begin to increase but his core values don’t really change.
Feldman’s take on Percy isn’t the stereotypical geek he’s a desperately lonely kid with few social skills. He’s a sweetheart of a kid but he’s in danger of having the world eat him alive once he leaves the confines of home and his parents, who track his whereabouts via his phone and have raised him to be a strict rule-follower. His closest friends are all online or the animals he takes care of at the local animal shelter. The deeper we get into Maddie’s backstory, the more focused and better the movie gets.Īlthough Percy is initially painted as a lonely nerd, again, the deeper we get into his state of mind, the more we realize that a lifetime of bullying in school has driven him inside himself. Her mother had an affair with one of these rich (married) men, and Maddie was the result, so technically Maddie has a rich father but one that she’s never met and who wants nothing to do with her. Maddie is a local, and she resents the rich folks that come into Montauk, drive up real estate values, and thus her taxes. But the film goes deeper into the class structure in the community. When she can’t make the tax payment, the government repossesses her car, which is a problem because she’s an Uber driver and it’s about to be the busy season in Montauk. The only reason Maddie even contemplates this arrangement is that she’s about to lose the house that her mother willed to her when she died.
Not unlike Kevin Smith’s Zack & Miri Make a Porno, No Hard Feelings acknowledges that a sizable portion of Americans are financially struggling. But the aforementioned parents (played by Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti, both Tony winners) offer Maddie a free car in exchange for not just dating their socially awkward son Percy (newcomer Andrew Barth Feldman) but also bringing him out of his shell before he heads to Princeton in the fall.Īs the film progresses, we start to realize that there’s a bit more to this film than just an R-rated sex comedy. Two-time Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence plays Maddie, who seems addicted to bad decisions, such as noncommittal dating and low-paying jobs that barely make it possible for her to pay her property taxes on time. Alright yes, the new comedy No Hard Feelings, from Gene Stupnitsky, the director and co-writer of the equally raunchy Good Boys, is about a 30-something-year-old woman who agrees to “date” the 19-year-old son of well-to-do parents while the family is vacationing at their summer home in Montauk, Long Island.
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