7.0
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Drama, Romance, Comedy • 2016 • 99 min • Adults (18+)
Maggie's Plan (2016)
Maggie's Plan (2016)
Overview
Maggie's Plan is a New York romantic comedy about a woman who engineers her own path to single motherhood, falls for a married professor, and then spends the back half of the movie trying to return him to his ex-wife. Directed by Rebecca Miller and led by Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, and Julianne Moore, the film is clearly comfortable with divorce, fluid family arrangements, and women steering their romantic lives with spreadsheet precision. The Leans Traditional label is a mild surprise, but it holds: the story keeps circling back to stable pair bonds and the limits of solo planning. Maggie's schemes, despite their progressive trappings, keep landing her closer to conventional partnership than she intended.
Starring Cast
Greta Gerwig • Ethan Hawke • Julianne Moore
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Neutral
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Viewer Rating
7.0
Overview
Maggie's Plan is a New York romantic comedy about a woman who engineers her own path to single motherhood, falls for a married professor, and then spends the back half of the movie trying to return him to his ex-wife. Directed by Rebecca Miller and led by Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, and Julianne Moore, the film is clearly comfortable with divorce, fluid family arrangements, and women steering their romantic lives with spreadsheet precision. The Leans Traditional label is a mild surprise, but it holds: the story keeps circling back to stable pair bonds and the limits of solo planning. Maggie's schemes, despite their progressive trappings, keep landing her closer to conventional partnership than she intended.
Starring Cast
Greta Gerwig • Ethan Hawke • Julianne Moore
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
The film explores the complexities of modern relationships and unconventional family structures through the personal journeys of its characters. It focuses on individual choices and emotional fulfillment without explicitly promoting a specific political ideology.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: High
The film features a traditional cast. Its narrative maintains a neutral or positive portrayal of traditional identities, without explicit critique.
Secondary
LGBTQ: Neutral
Confidence: High
The film includes a gay character, Tony, who is a supportive friend to the protagonist. His sexuality is depicted incidentally, integrated into the narrative without being a primary focus or source of conflict. Tony is portrayed as a well-adjusted individual, contributing to a neutral and respectful representation of LGBTQ+ identity within the story.
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Confidence: High
The narrative champions alternative family structures and fluid relationships, portraying divorce and the deliberate re-arrangement of family units as positive paths for personal fulfillment and unconventional co-parenting.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
Maggie's Plan does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes within its storyline. The film focuses on a woman's complex romantic entanglements and her pursuit of motherhood, with no elements related to transsexual identity or experiences present in the plot.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
Maggie's Plan is an original film featuring new characters, none of whom were established with a different gender in prior source material or historical accounts. The movie does not include any instances of gender swapping.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
Maggie's Plan is an original film and not an adaptation of pre-existing material with established character races. The characters were created for this specific production, and their on-screen portrayals do not deviate from any prior canonical racial depictions.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.2
5.7
Critic Ratings
8.6
7.6
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