Maggie's Plan Page #9

Synopsis: Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But one daughter and three years later, Maggie is out of love and in a quandary: what do you do when you suspect your man and his ex wife are actually perfect for each other?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Rebecca Miller
  1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
76
R
Year:
2015
98 min
447 Views


- I want to help.

All right. Okay.

Lily, let's get your shoes on.

Oh, Justine, did you remember

your basketball uniform? I washed it.

It's folded!

Oh, the lunches are on the counter.

And it's quarter after,

so we're gonna be late.

- I can't find any of my socks.

- Just check the laundry basket.

- They're all dirty.

- Just wear them anyway.

Okay! We're good to go. Let's all go.

Uh...

- Maggie?

- Yes?

Just get all your stuff together

and I'll be there in a second.

Wait!

Paul, can you just climb on through

so we can get her in.

- Hi!

- Hi!

Is something burning?

No.

Hi, darling. Hi.

Hi.

- Thank God it's Friday.

- Oh, I know.

So I was thinking if we take

all the kids ice-skating,

then you can take Justine to that movie.

Because I think it's gonna scare Paul.

- No, it won't!

- Don't worry.

I'll take you and Lily to something else.

Why don't we see what's playing?

Ah!

Justine, where are the Band-Aids?

- Have you heard from John?

- I did.

He sold his car and he bought a motorcycle.

And he's taking us to the Giants on Sunday.

- Oh, for God's sake.

- Where is he living?

I don't know.

But I can ask him when we're in the stands.

- Justine, can you take Paul in to watch TV?

- Come on.

What is it?

I just think if you guys saw

each other again...

No, no. No more matchmaking ideas.

No more ideas, period.

You've had your thinking license revoked.

I'm not gonna get involved with

anybody's fate ever again. Not even my own.

I'm gonna become a completely passive,

non-interventional

Buddhist.

But I think that if you just saw him,

you guys just...

You have to let this go, Maggie.

This story has its own momentum,

apart from you. It always did.

I am so sick of being me.

You should really try the tapping.

- Try what?

- I went to this workshop on biofeedback.

It's amazing.

What you do is, you figure out what

the essential thing is you want to change.

And then you make a sort of a dictum.

Um, like, for you, for instance,

"I am not controlling,"

- if that is what you want to change.

- Yes, that's perfect.

- Okay, so "I am not controlling."

- I am not controlling.

- I am not controlling.

- I am not controlling.

You wanted to see me?

Yes. I wanted to return your book.

- And where shall I scatter these?

- Anywhere is fine.

I cannot believe, on top of everything else,

you burned my f***ing book.

I burned a copy of your book.

- You probably didn't even read it.

- Of course I read it.

That's why I burned it. You cannibalized

our marriage to write that story.

You didn't even bother to

fictionalize us in yours.

I don't write fiction.

Oh, you think you painted a precise

portrait of us in Bring Back the Geisha?

I cannot believe you're making me feel bad

about the sins of my unpublished manuscript

and you're glossing over

your actual lies and manipulation?

I'm not a liar. I never ever lie.

I lie now. I manipulated.

I debased myself morally

because I loved you so terribly much.

Maybe you could be flattered.

If you love me, why not just tell me?

You were married.

Georgette.

So you won't take responsibility

for the state of your life?

- You're just a victim of our plot?

- I'm not a victim.

I'm just a man who has f***ed

his whole life up, and now I'm looking

for an Airbnb to live in.

- So there's nothing more to say.

- Okay.

No other conversation. End it like that.

The reason your book doesn't work is

you put too much weight in the allegory.

You're trying to use

fiction to prove a thesis.

The text is crying out for

pure passages of economic theory.

Narrative blended with theory

is your specialty.

Make it a John Harding book.

It could be a phenomenon.

- You really think so?

- I know it, John.

You just have to accept it'll be published by

Yale University Press, and not Scribner's.

Probably be shortlisted

for a Bateson Prize.

You might even win one.

Oh, f***.

- You did it again.

- What?

You know me better than I know me.

Sometimes I wish I didn't.

You look so good in this light.

I'll seek out these lighting conditions

whenever possible, in that case.

You look so nice.

I love that polka dot dress.

- Yeah, no!

- Not really.

- I think you'd be a great hockey player.

- Oh, look who it is.

Happy birthday, Lily!

Okay, have fun, all right? You got her?

Winter sports aren't really

your strong suit, are they?

It's not fair.

In skates I'm not even able to defend myself.

I'm gonna keep you on ice

for the rest of your life, in that case.

- Here we go, all right?

- Oh, no, no.

- We're gonna go fast.

- John! No!

Did it ever occur to you

this might have just happened anyway?

Even if you hadn't played Titania

and sprinkled fairy dust in their eyes?

- Of course it's occurred to me.

- Yeah.

I guess you'll never know

if it was you or the hand of destiny.

I've decided to embrace

the mystery of the universe,

and stop bossing everybody

around so much.

Good luck with that, bossy pants.

He's gonna write a book about us one day,

and we are not gonna look good.

3,000, 100, 15,000.

What kind of 3-year-old loves

numbers that much?

- Was John into math? I know you weren't.

- Mmm-mmm.

I'm not sure.

Smile

A while

And give your face a rest, now

Smile

A while

And give your face a rest, now

Then, shake your hands

To the one you love the best, now

Then, shake your hand

To the one you love the best, now

What is to be

It must have to be, now

What is to be

It must have to be, now

Clap your hands

And move your feet

To the beat, now

Clap your hands

And groove to the beat, now

What is to be

It must have to be, now

What is to be

It must have to be, now

Clap your hands

And groove to the beat, now

Clap your hands

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Rebecca Miller

Rebecca Augusta Miller, Lady Day-Lewis (born September 15, 1962) is an American independent filmmaker and novelist, known for her films Angela, Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, and Maggie's Plan, all of which she wrote and directed. Miller is the daughter of Arthur Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, and his third wife Inge Morath, Magnum photographer. more…

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