There is also Maddie’s generational dismay in crashing a high-school party to confront Percy after an argument. And for pure age-gap craziness, we can always look up Jennifer Lawrence’s legendary encounter with Jack Nicholson on Oscar night in 2013.īut there are some great scenes, chiefly one in which Maddie, stark naked, comes up to some bullies on the beach who have stolen her clothes while she and Percy were skinny dipping and proceeds to beat them up. Maddie and Percy’s relationship is not as plausible as that of Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, however studiedly bizarre that was. The movie cheerfully gets on with its high-concept premise, but this just gives a slight sheen or glaze of unreality to the proceedings. It is not aiming for transgressive or outrageous bad taste – as in, say, the Stifler-mom scenes from American Pie a generation ago – nor any final emotional reckoning for Maddie who is never called upon to regret her Faustian bargain. It means that there is no comic or dramatic traction from the arrangement itself being supposedly wrong, other than the parents’ sneakiness in not telling Percy that they were behind it. This screenplay may well have been conceived before Craigslist banned dodgy hook-up ads a few years ago, but the film’s reluctance to make bought sex anything resembling an issue is very contemporary. But of course it isn’t as simple as that. She impatiently wants to get this whiny kid’s cherry popped and then get the car.
With her usual robust frankness, Maddie interviews for the job and brusquely sets out to seduce tremulous young Percy, played by Andrew Barth Feldman.
A wealthy, painfully liberal couple, Laird (Matthew Broderick) and Allison (Laura Benanti) are offering a free car to a woman who can “date” their intensely shy and virginal 19-year-old son, a brilliant musician who is going to Princeton in the fall they are scared that without experience, college is going to be just too traumatic for him. Maddie’s best friends, surfer-dude Jim (Scott MacArthur) and his pregnant partner Sara (Natalie Morales), point out an interesting opening advertised on Craigslist.
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