Megan (Keira Knightley) is in her late 20's and lost. She has a degree in family therapy from grad school but don't feel right for the work. She's the bridesmaid in her friend Allison (Ellie Kemper)'s wedding. She catches her father (Jeff Garlin) cheating on her mother. Her boyfriend Anthony (Mark Webber) proposes. It's all too much. She befriends Annika (Chloë Grace Moretz) and her high school group by buying them booze. Instead of going to a self-improvement seminar, she hides out in Annika's house. She falls for Annika's dad (Sam Rockwell) and feels more comfortable with the kids.The premise seems fun and interesting. Knightley and Moretz are a good pairing. The movie works well as long as it's them. Anthony is a waste of time character. The movie needs less of him. Sam Rockwell is too obvious and is almost annoyingly cliché. This movie works much better when Megan does things to help Annika. I want to like this from the premise and the actresses. The movie is good with them but it doesn't do anything else worthwhile.

Megan (Keira Knightley) has been part of a group of eight friends since childhood. Six of the members have married off between them. However, Megan and her "partner" have lagged behind. In addition to this, Megan is confused about continuing her chosen profession in marital counseling, as she is having a total quarter life crisis. Lo and behold, at another wedding, Megan's beau gets down on one knee. In a panic, Megan secretly leaves the reception and ends up near a carryout, where Annika (Chloe Grace Moretz) is waiting, with friends, to find a stooge to buy booze for them. Its Megan. She agrees to do so, with some scruples. Soon, a friendship develops between the older gal and the high school student. Thus, Annika asks Megan to pose as her divorced mother in a counseling session at school while Megan asks Annika if she can lay low at her house for a week, avoiding her almost-fiancé. It happens but Annika's DAD, Craig (Sam Rockwell) has to give his permission first. This offbeat, divorce lawyer is skeptical but Megan wins him over. Now, Annika and Megan both have each other to "find their ways" respectively. Hold on, what if Megan's search leads her to fall for someone else? This lovely, inventive movie should have been given big advertising bucks when it was released but, as it was, no one discovered it. In my town, Toledo, it was around for a solitary week. I missed it, so thank heavens for libraries. Knightley, Moretz, and Rockwell are flat-out wonderful while the supporting players do nice jobs, too. Scenery, costumes, the tremendous script and the comical direction make Laggies a total delight. Don't lag, folks, this one is meant to be seen ASAP.

I loved this movie: It's quirky, funny, and full of the melancholy feeling of life. I stumbled upon it one day while on Netflix. I had watched the trailer months earlier but expected it to be a a theater release/vs straight to DVD. The acting and script was well done, and I just can't seem to get enough of Sam Rockwell, why does it seem like he is never made a big name? Such an incredible actor, team him up with Knightly and Moretz and you have a great drama-comedy, which happens to be my second favorite movie genre. From beginning to end you have all emotions of the spectrum and it never felt slow or boring. Although a tad predictable it is a great watch and should not be missed.

Nothing is as simultaneously sad, darkly funny, and enlightening as someone who has peaked in high school. Part of you wants to bust out laughing as they talk about their teenage BFF as if they were still friends, not realizing that they're nearing middle-age and are speaking with a voice that is sugar-coated with debilitating denial. But the other part of you wants to kneel down and pray that your greatest accomplishment won't be defiantly doing doughnuts in the parking lot of senior prom. Let's face it; no one wants their best years to be behind them instead of directly ahead.Nearing 30, Megan (Keira Knightley) doesn't yet realize that she has, excuse the term just one more time, peaked in high school. The majority of her friends have lustrous careers, blissful marriages, and Instagram famous kids, but she, despite a plentiful college education, is still dating her high school sweetheart and is still working as a sign-shaker for her father's business while she pretends like she's planning for a future career. She has no motivation and no urgency, but when her boyfriend (Mark Webber) proposes, she has a sort of panic attack, telling him she's going to away for a week for a career fair when she's actually wandering around the city trying not to lose it.That's when she stumbles into Annika (Chloë Grace Moretz), a smug 16-year old who she meets outside a liquor store. Megan knows that she's much too old to be palling around with a hormonally-charged young woman, but, desperate to escape her adult responsibilities, she spends the week at Annika's house. Annika's father, Craig (Sam Rockwell), is concerned; like most parents, he's only a little worried that his daughter is hanging out with an adult as if she's a gal pal with a mutual respect for One Direction. But as Megan's responsibilities become increasingly real, and Craig's presence becomes a mounting temptation, she begins to rethink her life, wondering if it really is time to change things up after nearly three decades of unrelenting comfort. Lynn Shelton (Humpday, Your Sister's Sister) can get away with nearly anything she wants; with one eye focused on realism and the other shrouded in a slightly sarcastic tone, even the most meager material is enlivened by an energizing, intimate voice. Laggies is one of her most commercial films; it is the first project she didn't write herself (that credit goes to Andrea Seigel, who is making her screen writing debut), and the first to feature an ensemble of well-established stars. While slightly conventional in comparison to her many asymmetric works, Laggies is always a pleasure. It is an authentic study of someone who is having a serious identity crisis, but it remains persistently charming even when the film threatens to go down the road more traveled by. Knightley, who has spent the last few years confronting herself with offbeat roles, is as pathetic and likable as Megan should be; her decisions are poor, but anyone who has lived life as though they were a teenager for nearly a decade can only be cut some slack. Rockwell steals scene after scene as the smart alecky Craig, and Moretz, continuing to impress throughout her short career, is appealing as the unsettled Annika.Engagingly witty but unafraid to answer some hard questions about the nobodies who are forced to deal with the perils of a damning quarter-life crisis, Laggies can be lightweight and it can also go deep; it isn't just surface, and that's why it doesn't drift away in a sea of indie movie witchery.Read more reviews at petersonreviews.com