In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes, then, taking an opportunity to escape for a week, hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year-old Annika, who lives with her world-weary single dad (www.imdb.com).
Director: Lynn Shelton (Your Sister's Sister)
Starring: Keira Knightley, Chloe Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell, Ellie Kemper
A young-looking-for-her-age Keira Knightley suffers with Peter Pan syndrome, running away from responsibilities. When marriage becomes an option, she bolts from her fiance, hiding from him at a new friend's place. This friend is a high-schooler (Moretz), well under Knightley's age but level with her maturity. Comfort's hard to come by in Say When (that's Laggies in America), especially in its lead lady. It does, however, come from Moretz's dad Sam Rockwell. He's the heart and soul amongst a barren wasteland of stale, lifeless characters. This is a romantic-comedy with little romance and hardly any comedy (unless it comes from Rockwell). When romance does come, it's almost over, and whoever's stuck it through to the end probably doesn't care.
2/5
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