Jennifer Lawrence sets out to seduce a 19-year-old in the trailer for No Hard Feelings
In an effort to save her childhood home, Jennifer Lawrence takes on an unorthodox escort gig
Film News No Hard Feelings
We have a new entry in the pivotal film genre of raunchy R-rated adult comedies, with Jennifer Lawrence in Gene Stupnitsky’s upcoming No Hard Feelings.
Lawrence leads the film as Maddie, an Uber driver without a car who’s on the brink of losing her childhood home. Desperate for a ride and some funds, she answers an intriguing ad listed by wealthy, concerned parents looking to increase their son’s confidence. Maddie’s then tasked with seducing their shy 19-year-old son Percy (Andrew Feldman) before he goes away to college, kicking off a series of innuendo’d hijinks.
Dating Percy proves to be a more difficult task than Maddie anticipates; by all accounts, the lad is a big dork who doesn’t drink (the legally responsible thing to do at his age) and wears Roxy Music shirts (specifically, this one). This is no judgment on Roxy Music, but writing as someone who dated a Roxy Music fan at 19, there’s a 99 percent chance that anyone young person donning merch from the ‘70s glam rock group is a nerd, and that is okay.
No Hard Feelings also stars Matthew Broderick, Laura Benanti, Natalie Morales, Hasan Minhaj, Kyle Mooney, and The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach.
“I think Jennifer Lawrence is really goofy in this movie, in a way that she hasn’t been in the past,” Moss-Bachrach recently told Awards Radar. “The movie reminds me of some ‘90s comedies I really used to like. I don’t want to misrepresent the movie, but there were elements which reminded me of the Farrelly brothers, or Something About Mary. There’s a decent amount of physical comedy, and Jennifer Lawrence is very committed to it. It was a very funny set.”
No Hard Feelings arrives in theaters on June 23.
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You know you’re desperate to get some hotlinks into your article when you’re writing “the guy wears shirts, specifically this shirt”
Fuck yeah, dude. I love shirts! If this movie is specifically for people who like shirts, it’s bound to be a hit!
yeah but what’s your stance on one particular Roxy Music shirt?!?
I figured the shirt would be Country Life. That one was pretty innocuous. But then, I never dated a Roxy Music fan.
Yeah, my immediate thought was Country Life. For some reason that’s the Roxy cover that always comes to mind first…
I’ll give you four good reasons.
I wasn’t aware that liking Roxy Music implies a certain personality type.
Neither was I. It wouldn’t have occurred to me at all had the author not mentioned it in this amusingly worded sentence:“ but writing as someone who dated a Roxy Music fan at 19, there’s a 99 percent chance that anyone young person donning merch from the ‘70s glam rock group is a nerd,”
I guess wearing retro merch from most modestly successful alt-ish band from 40 years ago would qualify someone as a nerd.
At that age I had a few Hot Tuna shirts. Guess I’d’ve qualified.
At this point it probably just means you’re old.
Is this an attempt to sell me a t-shirt?
This shirt is perfectly suited for dramatically tearing it off as you enter the ring.
Just got a Google alert for shirts and I am NOT disappointed!
I will give you any shirt you want if you’ll be my friend
And he’s like always wearing t-shirts
Fuck! Perfect!“I mean, he’s Preston, Preston!”
This seems like a really fucked up concept. Imagine switching the genders.Let’s say the same basic trailer but Iman Vellani and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
lol STFU you dweeb. Switch the genders. Yes, because we’ve never seen a movie where an older man seduces a younger woman. Unheard of in the history of cinema and in real life. Truly a concept that could only exist in our imaginations.
And those movies are never criticized!
He’ll be quick to blame it on Rio
I blame it on the bossa nova
so you’re okay with it? What the fuck is wrong with you.
I don’t know who you are but I like you and imagined you saying this while throwing popcorn at this guy.
“Yes, because we’ve never seen a movie where an older man seduces a younger woman.”Right, and is that bad? Or is that okay? Meaning — we should stop it right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Nail on the head. When Hollywood thinks 25 is too old for women to act as a romantic interest alongside 50+ year old men this is totally fine. Jennifer Lawrence is at least in the ballpark where it would only be a little weird (she is 32)
“Yes, because we’ve never seen a movie where an older man seduces a younger woman. Unheard of in the history of cinema and in real life.”Yes, and every time a movie like that comes out today there is no end of articles, and comments on those articles, about how offensive, and problematic, and rapey it it. Which is what this is. This is a story about a woman in her thirties trying to coerce sex out of an unwilling teenage boy. And the articles comment about how this task is made more difficult by the fact that the teenager in question doesn’t drink!? Seriously, what the fuck? The mirror movie where Bob has a hard time banging Suzy because he can’t get her drunk first would be ripped to shreds here.
Yes, it wouldn’t work if the genders were reversed. Good thing then that they’re not making the movie with the genders reversed.
My point is that it doesn’t work here either. It portrays lack of sexual experience in a teenager as something to be made fun of. It’s a nasty little piece of psychological work.
You should try watching to the end of a movie every now and again. Turns out nearly all of the time, the protagonist learns a valuable lesson about being yourself
Yeah, but don’t you think that by the end of the movie, the parents are going to see the error of their ways, the kid will find an age appropriate girlfriend, and Jennifer will save her house, and probably find an age appropriate boyfriend (maybe rich too)?
As someone who was a real nerd as a teenager (and afterward), I say lighten up.
This topic has been explored in many many movies and tv shows. It is possible to be okay with this but you don’t have to be. Don’t watch this movie.
This is some hardcore “paranoid dad” or “virgin zoomer who lives on Twitter” bullshit you’re pushing mate.
Have you seen the movie? The premise I’m reading is some parents who are clearly depicted as creepy and weird hire someone who is extremely desperate to do something creepy and weird.It’s obviously going to be a movie where the parents learn a lesson or somehow get made fools, etc. and JL will probably be on e verge of doing something she will regret and then all of a sudden she will realize the good thing to do, or, maybe some wacky drinking blackout happens where we think she did the thing but it turns out she didn’t, or they really fall in love, or whatever but jesus have you never seen a movie before?
you are why we can’t have nice things.
ah yes, a true misandrist.
Sounds reminiscent of Failure to Launch.
RockHard never fails to launch
It’s a weird concept for a film and the age gap certainly makes it iffier but it does seem like an existing narrative trope that happens a lot more— the idea that parents are concerned about their sons being virgins and sometimes are desperate enough to hire sex workers as a misguided confidence booster/rite of passage. On the other hand there’s still some sort of value in daughters not having sex, whether the parents in Blockers holding onto the idea of their daughters as younger than they are or in general like dowries are still things.Even Star Wars, of all famously sexless franchises, touches on daughters as economic bartering.
You’re gonna flip out when you hear about Harold and Maude.
that movie is called fish tank
I mean Aaron Taylor-Johnson would pretty much be living in a biopic if it was about a teen boy getting groomed…The weird thing is that in a different movie, it could be a pretty interesting concept about the potential danger of this sort of nonsense.
Aaron when 19 years old when he met his future wife. Grooming is usually someone under age that then becomes legal, and in the UK 16 yrs is the age of concent, so he is technically 3 years legal by the time he met her.That’s not grooming, even by US standards.
There has been speculation that they actually met when he was closer to 16. Legally, she may not have done anything wrong, but plenty of the reports about her obsessive behavior about an 18 – 19 year old when she was 42 *and the director he was working for* is not indicative of a healthy relationship.
Even at 16 years old, it’s not illegal in their home country of the UK. It’s definitely morally borderline to modern norms, but that doesn’t mean anything is wrong with it, especially legally.Even if she was obsessive when he was 18 or 19, as again, he was 2-3 years beyond legal at that point.He is now 32 years old and they are still married. You think that if he was “groomed” or taken advantage of back then that he would still be in that relationship now?
So you think the only kinds of toxic, abusive relationships are illegal ones? The age different isn’t the issue. The power dynamics in place when they met were – He wasn’t just younger. She was his boss.A lot of people stay in abusive relationships when they shouldn’t. The things she’s said about him and the things he’s said about their relationship don’t sound great (and they’ve chosen to do so in public). And yeah, if you’re groomed and never known any other kind of relationship, you might well stay. There are also active rumors that he’s very unhappy and currently having an affair with Joey King.
Where did I say that??? I said there is nothing wrong about their age. You called her a “groomer” for dating someone who was 19 years old. Now you switch the conversation to the power dynamics of boss vs employee, no longer about age. Which wasn’t your original point. You switched to that after you couldn’t argue the age thing.That movie is where they met, are you saying she forced him into sexual or toxic relationship during filming?He isn’t happy? How is that different than 50% of marriages out there, but you are really stretching if you are trying to tie this to him being groomed. You think at 19 years old, that was his only relationship? A guy that looks like that in the industry probably had a lot of relationships before meeting his future wife. She is probably looking too old for him and he wants something younger, maybe he is the toxic one?
I think if you’ll go back to my first comment to you, you’ll notice that I said both way back then. The age difference plus the part where she was his boss are both a big problem. And yes – she met him and pursued a relationship with him while he was her employee.You think he had a lot of relationships prior to that when he was a literal child since you’ve even pointed out he was an adolescent when he met his wife? He was 19 when the film was released, not when he was cast and it was filmed.
Is the UK like the Alabama of Europe?
Not even close, you should Google the age of consent in Europe, it’s honestly shocking. 16-17 yrs is actually conservative. Malta is the highest at 18 yrs. The lowest, would be Germany, Austria and Italy (to name a few) for example is an eye opening 14 yrs old!!!
Malta? Maltese men? Goosio Goosio Goosio! Did you know I’m Goosio? Friend to Maltese children everywhere-io…Goosio Goosio Goosio! I bet you knew-sio! ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-
bobs burgers did that already because tina as a boy would be a big nono.
wHaT If tHE geNDeRs WeRE SWitChEdShut up virgin.
Nothing wrong with some young tight puss
Relax, Jezebel isn’t currently hiring.
Weekend at Bernies is a really fucked up concept too. Its ok for movies to explore things that would be fucked up in real life.
The Aaron Taylor-Johnson whose wife is 24 years older than him, whom he started dating when he was 18? That Aaron Taylor-Johnson?
Based on this trailer Jennifer Lawrence might have wanted to extend her hiatus from acting just a little longer
This looks like a script Jennifer Lawrence accepted after Jennifer Lopez passed.
Did they even ask Tilly???
LOL at the idea of Jennifer Lopez passing the chance to make a bad movie.
I dunno, i kinda like when people get nominated for multiple Oscars and then decide to do some dumb sorta fun movies. Call it the Charlize-effect.
The woman makes very enjoyable action flicks.
Or perhaps retire a wee sooner
So, it’s an even creepier Failure to Launch? Honestly, if it really leans into that, they could really have something here. And it would be amazing if the big third act twist is the kid is asexual and/or autistic, and his parents are just horrible bigots trying to screw him straight.
Or that he’s been banging half his mom’s friends since the day he turned whatever the age of consent is in their state.
Would it be considered “bigoted” to try to get an autistic person laid?
Everybody needs a wingman.He’s trying to help you out!
Do…do autistic people not get horny?Cause, uh, I’m 99% sure they do./I stand by “most people need to get laid more” as one of the rules to make the world better./along with “eat the rich”///and never take your shoes off on an airplane
it would be considered bigoted, and would be bigoted (or biased/prejudiced), to assume that they have no agency and should live the way you live.If they actually have no agency then they are developmentally delayed and there are actual advocacy groups who work to assist developmentally delayed people romantically. They don’t need amateurs involving themselves in their love lives.
It would be funny if in the last five minutes, you cut to a courtroom where J-Law’s character is on trial, and she’s spent 90 minutes telling her side of a statutory rape case where the kid was actually 16, she tried to seduce him to get money from his rich parents, and she made up the whole ridiculous scenario. Also, she doesn’t look anywhere near as good as she does in the movie, and the unrealistically handsome dude in the tight black underpants is actually a way more realistic looking shlub.
I don’t think black underpants guy is the kid, dude.
I know. I’m saying in this scenario she is embellishing the caliber of her suitors.
Any titties in this movie everyone keeps bringing up?
Mathew Broderick’s wig………….
Seriously, the guy knows Ben Stiller, he couldn’t just ask him?
100% the best part of the trailer
I was kind of a nerd at that age, but I think I could’ve managed to bang Jennifer Lawrence (or whoever the 199*cough* equivalent was)
Tea Leoni?
I could’ve worked with that.
oh hell yeah
Funny thing! David Duchovny, while married to Tea Leoni, was asked about the song, “David Duchovny, why won’t you love me” and if his wife was bothered by it. He apparently wrote a song for her called “Tea Leoni, why won’t you bone me”. Wait, I didn’t mean funny. I meant deeply creepy given Duchovny’s later descent into sexual addiction and so on. But still…
Marisa Tomei?
Sure!
she is extremely deserving of this career downgrade!
Because of Don’t Look Up?
Imagine giving a shit. Pathetic.
Never been a fan of Jennifer Lawrence, though she’s obviously a talented actor and I feel bad for her fall from grace in the public eye or whatever. But this looks gross and unfunny. For my big comeback I’ll play a desperate 30-something woman trying to seduce a young man for financial gain. Sorry but ewwwwwwww.
Jennifer Lawrence had a fall from grace?
Jennifer Lawrence has never distanced herself from Lydia Tar. It’s why she can only get cast in indie movies she produces herself now.
is this a joke I don’t get? I Googled Lydia Tar and the only thing I could find was a fictional character played by Cate Blanchett.
Maybe Jennifer Lawrence is a fictional character who doesn’t really exist.
Yes, it’s a joke. Pretending Lydia Tar is a real person has been a recurring joke since the release of the film. The Bernstein estate even responded to Todd Field’s suggestion that her young age vs Leonard Bernstein’s year of death means she may have made up her tutelage under him by “confirming” that Bernstein made an exception for young Linda by bringing her on as a student in his final year of life.
Maybe you had to be there
Weird, it has the same title as the English-language title of this pretty good 2020 gay German film:
Based on the poster alone, that movie goes harder.
and longer?
Are there any other kind of German films?
Jawohl!
I’m less interested in the movie itself than how one around structured around the 80s/90s premise of it accounts for and adapts to the post #MeToo era.
Probably because it’s not real. She’s not *really* sexually intrested in this 19 year old. She’s running a scam.
Gross.
I found a (kind of) plot hole immediately. The Buick Regal the parents are offering in the ad is a Fourth Generation Regal (1997-2005), it’s too old for the Uber vehicle requirements.
Does this look like Jalopnik to you?
I’m greyed on Jalopnik so this is my chance!… shit, I don’t have anything to add.Fuck mass greying and fuck the writers no longer ungreying commenters!
It does bear a striking resemblance to Jalopnik
Not enough slideshows on Jalpn……..wait, nevermind. Yeah, you’re right.
everything on kinja looks the same, so “yes”
So it’s not just a comedy, but a crime comedy.
I kinda hate that that was my immediate thought 30 seconds into the trailer.Then again, her character clearly doesn’t have her shit together so maybe she doesn’t even know the Uber rules.
I mean I thought the same thing. That is not gonna pass the requirements! haha
Wow, did you just assume the year this movie takes place in?!?
*sigh*I never thought she was an Oscar-level actress, but she’s always seemed like an honest, hard-working actor, and a genuine and fun human being…damn, Jen – did you owe someone some money or something? Did you lose a bet?Aside: until he spoke, I kept thinking Matthew Broderick was Don Johnson. And Don Johnson was looking *rough*. O.O
Jen was an honest, hard-working Oscar-level actress. She also had a thing for the horses.
“This is no judgment on Roxy Music, but writing as someone who dated a Roxy Music fan at 19, there’s a 99 percent chance that anyone young person donning merch from the ‘70s glam rock group is a nerd, and that is okay.”…what?
She’s saying you’re a giant dork.
I don’t even like Roxy Music! I just find that sentence extremely difficult to parse.
The AV Club baby!
So that’s why the billboards have been posted all over reddit.
This might not be true of Uber, but it sure as hell USED to be true of Lyft: if you did enough rides (and it was easily doable) you could use one of their cars, and drive it wherever you wanted, still making money. Not a lot – most of those jobs don’t bring in a ton. But you didn’t need your own car.
i don’t know why but it was really refreshing. hell yeah~
Made me laugh, so that’s a good trailer.
god help me , I laughed too , so I’ll give it a watch .
I feel like we’re witnessing an alternate timeline where Jennifer Lawrence didn’t cash out after Winter’s Bone, and kept doing smaller, character driven projects. This film, and Causeway both feel like they should’ve been made around ten years ago, when her career was on the rise, and not on the wane.
This looks like a movie Amy Schumer tried to star in until someone told her she wasn’t hot enough for the jokes to work so she called her best friend Jennifer Lawrence.
Looks like you missed a career in comedy writing, can’t get enough of Amy Schumer is fat references.
This whole movie looks as bad as Broderick’s hair in the trailer.
Holy shit that looks awful. This review of the script is kinder.https://scriptshadow.net/screenplay-review-no-hard-feelings/
Jesus guys. I feel like I’m the only one left who just
likes watching movies as a story and doesn’t view every piece of media as some instruction
manual on how people should behave.
You mean I shouldn’t be like the guy in Scarface?
Shades of
It appears the current Speaker of the House had a supporting role in this film.
And apparently his last name is two words.
Some of you really need to lighten the fuck up.
based purely on that two-minute trailer, i’m going to say this is the literal worst movie ever made.
Looks better than the similarly themed Private Lessons.
Looks good.
They sold me with the neck punch.
I bet this gets the bitches on Jezebel real mad!
Are these the groomers that right wing talking heads keep going on about?
This will do for Jen what Shallow Hal did for Gwyneth: make the voters wonder why they gave her that Oscar.
Hmmmm. I’m having hard time imaging any 19 guy needing more than “do you want to have sex” as “seduction” from hot girl.
Ya, but this guy’s a nerd, you see.
She can’t act. I wonder how she gets these parts? She must give a hell of a blowjob.
We’re not here to talk about your mom.
I saw this movie the first time, when it was called Failure to Launch.
My guess is there will be less sex in this than the premise leads us to believe, and possibly no sex between the central couple. The big “twist” is that she is the one who does some growing up. (He already seems absolutely lovely, especially considering how awful his parents appear to be.)
This reminds me of the first short story Garrison Keillor published, “Local Family Keeps Son Happy”. Here is the synopsis from the New Yorker website:“Brief story about Mr. & Mrs. Robert Shepard & their sixteen year old son, Robbie. Mr. & Mrs. Shepard obtain the parole of a twenty-four year old prostitute who becomes a live-in companion for their son. Mrs. Shepard says that her son “has matured greatly” since the young woman came to live with them. In addition to her other duties, she also cooks breakfast & a recipe is given for one of her specialties, fancy eggs.”
People are complaining, yet 100% wish they were in this scenario with Jennifer Lawrence-like women at 19 lol. Grow up, prudes.
Are we prudes or do we want to fuck JL? Make up your mind.
Did everyone miss the parts of the trailer where the “seduction” goes badly? It’s telling you it’s bad bad idea and these are bad people for suggesting it and it’s funny when bad things happen to bad people. It’s not endorsing the seduction!