Maggie’s Plan – 7.3

Another cuddly Greta Herwig vehicle – does she ever play other than the lovable not-quite-loser but not exactly Julia Roberts? There are a bundle of pleasantly smile-inducing moments, especially early on before a plot takes over, including a marvelous cameo for Wallace Shawn. Ethan Hawke is convincing as a charmer whose narcissism is overlooked but always present. My main problem was the Julianne Moore character: why did she have to have her hair pulled up to look so unattractive and speak with a Danish (?) accent to sound so unattractive? There needed to be some reason John would want to go back to her, and it wasn’t there.