Laggies Page #2

Synopsis: Megan's approaching 30 with a good degree and a boyfriend in hand, but when he proposes at her friend's wedding and everyone seems to think that the best way to advance in her career is to take a seminar where you find out what animal you are, Megan's understandably feeling lost. After meeting teenagers who want her to buy them beer, Megan is drawn into 16-year-old Annika's simpler life. She ends up moving in with Annika and her single father, juggling the life of a teen and that of an adult, two romantic interests, and the feeling of lagging behind.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Lynn Shelton
Production: A24 Films
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
66%
R
Year:
2014
99 min
Website
956 Views


I've been such a bonehead

in waiting to do this for so long.

No, no! Whoa, get up, get up!

- Okay.

- Get up...

Okay, I'm up, and listen, I know

we have had our trouble in the past

with recognizing our

moments, but this is it.

This is our moment.

No, this isn't our moment,

this is Allison's moment,

this is her wedding.

I know, and it's totally cool.

When I first had the

idea, I ran it by her

and she was so happy for us.

And today, at lunch,

I got a fortune cookie

that said, "Carpe diem. "

- Carpe diem?

- Yes.

Hey, hey, guys, hey.

Megan, can you find my mom?

She has the next dance with Matt.

I think I saw her out in the garden.

Yeah, I'm... I'm...

I'm gonna come... I'm...

- I'm just a second...

- Right.

Sorry but she has to find my mom.

- No, it's fine.

- Okay.

It's fine.

Uh, I'm going to go and put the

rose petals in the bridal suite.

- Right this second?

- Yeah.

Don't you do that

just before they leave?

No, no, it's cool right now.

Okay, I'll... Later right? Later.

Meg?

Meg...

Hey, excuse me.

Yeah?

You look like you party.

I guess I'm technically coming from one.

Cool. So...

We can hardly believe this,

but we all forgot our ID's.

And I mean, normally we would

just go buy some beer ourselves...

But I guess we look under

21. Which is crazy, right?

I know. Um, so...

If we gave you some money or something,

would you help us straighten

this whole problem out

and just buy us a

six-pack or something?

Oh, God.

Um, you could totally keep the change.

Okay.

Someone did this for

me when I was your age,

so I'm going to do it for you.

It's like a rite of passage, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, I... I had a

good feeling about you.

That makes one of us.

Hey, yo, can we

get some coolers too?

And some red wine.

And can you get some

white wine also? Thank you.

You don't have to get

all that. Thank you.

Yeah!

Here you go. Drink responsibly.

Sweet.

Okay, I'm out of here.

Goodnight, you guys.

I'm really sorry. Can I have

a look at that for a second?

Yeah go for it.

Okay.

Almost.

God, I haven't done this

since I was in eighth grade.

Okay, okay, one more

time and then I'm going.

Okay, all right, thank you so much.

Come on, where are you going?

Hang out some more.

Come on, stay.

I mean, maybe I've got an hour.

Yeah.

What are you up to?

Guys, I'm really

impressed. This is truly art.

Oh.

Oh. Okay.

Come on, Megan.

Go right now, go.

Sh*t.

Sh*t.

You know when you go to a party

drunk, and everybody else is sober.

Or no. Or maybe like,

maybe you're the sober one

and everybody else is drunk.

God, you'd think that somebody

who you've known for forever

would have known what

you meant about nipples,

and it's like, hey, hey,

maybe like, using Buddha

as a restaurant decoration

is the bigger joke, right?

Or maybe...

Maybe actually they're the

ones that are telling the jokes

and I'm the one that's

missing them. You know?

It makes me really

sad what you're saying.

It's sad...

I don't even know what you're

talking about but still...

Oh.

- Don't get sad, Misty.

- I'm fine. I'm fine.

No, no, like, you shouldn't

get drunk and get sad.

I mean, look at Patrick.

Patrick's sad and he hasn't

even touched his wine.

His folks are splitting up.

His dad's being a massive

dick in the divorce.

- Oh.

- That's why we TP'd his house.

That was his house?

Yeah.

Huh?

So you don't want to go out together

as friends then?

Just take the sophomore.

You know, just take a real date.

All right, whatever

Annika. Whatever you want.

I'm sorry. I just...

I totally interrupted.

What, me and Junior?

No, we were just talking about

the prom. You know, stupid stuff.

I saw my dad cheat on my mom tonight.

Really?

I think he was about to get a hand job.

Yeah, my...

My mom left my dad and I,

like, seven years ago now.

It was out of nowhere.

We don't know why she did it.

You know why your dad did it?

I don't.

Well...

If you ever want to talk,

call me.

You're giving me a phone?

I have a bunch of them.

Misty's dad sells them.

I just pretty much just use that

one to hide stuff from my dad.

Thanks.

God, I don't even know what time it is.

How do I, um... Oh, no...

This one?

Oh, sh*t.

Sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t.

Bye, thanks for the awesome time.

Megan, what happened to

you? Where have you been?

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

I, uh... I...

I... You know, I was more wasted

leaving the wedding than I knew...

- Okay.

- And by the time I got to the store,

I realized I shouldn't even be driving.

And then I got sick and I

was puking in some bushes,

and then my dress got dirty,

and then I had to leave the

car there and take a cab here.

And now I'm back.

I thought you got upset about,

we'll call it the kneeling,

and that you didn't

come back on purpose,

but that didn't seem like you.

No, no, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I got scared, I'm sorry.

I just... I don't know.

Oh, God, I'm a mess right now, look, can

we... Can we talk about this tomorrow?

Well...

Well, baby, no".

- No?

- No.

- We can't.

- Right.

Because we have wasted so much time...

We should have just made it official

and our time is now.

I know why you're hesitant.

Why?

It's the planning and the pressure

and all the trappings of all that.

- But we don't have to do it that way.

- No?

No, because we...

We can elope.

I was thinking.

We don't have to tell our parents,

we don't have to tell our friends.

- Really?

- We could go to a beach or Vegas.

I was thinking Vegas

'cause we could just check that step

off and we could be married tomorrow.

Would you do that? Would you do that?

Yes. I would do that.

- Okay.

- I would do that.

Wow, we have Matt and

Allison's brunch tomorrow.

But we can do it the day after.

We can go the day after tomorrow.

Yeah.

I can't the day after that.

What do you mean, why? Why?

My God, I really wanted to...

To go to that personal

development seminar.

- Wait, really?

- Yeah.

- On Orcas?

- Yeah, right.

Ah, because, you know...

I'm twirling a sign for my dad,

and I don't know what

to do with my future.

- That's awesome, Meg.

- Yeah.

I'm so all for that.

That's amazing. You know...

They do this thing where they

give you an animal to help you

visualize new behavioral patterns.

And mine was a shark.

And it helped to remind me

that I need to keep progressing,

otherwise I'll just sink.

Yeah, so...

After your seminar on Orcas...

Uh...

Will you...

Megan Burch...

Run off to Vegas with me?

Yes, I will.

You Will.

There it goes.

- I love you.

- I love you.

Mmm-hmm.

- I love you so much.

- I love you so much.

What happened to you last night?

I'm so sorry. I got sick.

Sick?

She had a few too many drinks and

ended up vomiting in a parking lot.

I'm sorry.

Why would you possibly drink that much?

Now you are not in any

of the table pictures.

You are missing from the video.

Megan Ashley Burch...

You had everyone scared to death.

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Andrea Seigel

Andrea Seigel (born October 28, 1979 in Anaheim, California) is an American novelist and screenwriter. To date, she has published four novels. Seigel was born in Anaheim, California and grew up in Irvine, California. She graduated from Woodbridge High School. She then attended Brown University, and received her MFA from Bennington College in Vermont. In 2010, her third young adult novel, The Kid Table was optioned by producer Ivan Reitman for Paramount Pictures.In March 2013, Seigel appeared on the public radio program This American Life. On the program she revealed that she has ASMR, a perceptual phenomenon that produces tingling in the scalp in response to soft or gentle sounds and motions.In June 2013, production was completed on Laggies, a movie written by Seigel. The film was directed by Lynn Shelton and stars Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ellie Kemper and Sam Rockwell. The film was released in 2014.In May 2015, Andrea became the subject of the podcast, Mystery Show by Gimlet media. The podcast followed the discovery that Britney Spears was reading her little known book, To Feel Stuff. more…

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