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Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #142. Lynn Shelton’s Laggies

Published on February 10, 2014

Laggies

Director: Lynn Shelton
Writer: Andrea Seigel
Producers: Craig Chapman, Kevin Scott Frakes, Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin, Kyle Dean Jackson
U.S. Distributor: A24
Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Keira Knightley, Sam Rockwell, Tiya Sircar, Mark Webber, Kaitlyn Dever

Her characters wear their emotions on their sleeves and normally, she is a wearer of many hats, but for this time out, mayoress of the Seattleites Lynn Shelton worked from a screenplay that is not her own and yet, according to the critical response at Sundance, we find much of the same charisma and tone in previous comedic items such as Touchy Feely , Your Sister’s Sistere and Humpday.

Gist: Written by Andrea Seigel, a young woman Megan (Keira Knightley) reacts to her boyfriend’s (Mark Webber) marriage proposal by pretending to go on a business retreat but she actually hangs out with a new 16-year old friend Annika (Chloë Grace Moretz). Rockwell will play an older character named Craig in the film.

Release Date: Picked up by the A24 folks in the first Sundance weekend, the Premiere category preemed film will receive a summer release.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).