Directed by Rebecca Miller, the modern romantic comedy “Maggie’s Plan” is among two films opening June 10 at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.
Also showing at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln theater is “Tale of Tales,” a fairy tale based on three stories of magic and the macabre by 17th-century folklorist Giambattista Basile.
In “Maggie’s Plan,” Greta Gerwig is Maggie Hardin, a vibrant and practical 30-something New Yorker working in education. Unable to find love, Maggie decides to have a child on her own. But, when she meets John Harding (played by Ethan Hawke), an anthropology professor and struggling writer, Maggie falls in love and adjusts her plans for motherhood. Those plans are soon complicated as John is unhappily married to Georgette Harding (Julianne Moore), an ambitious academic driven by her work.
With help from her eccentric and hilarious friends, married couple Tony (Bill Hader) and Felicia (Maya Rudolph), Maggie sets in motion a new plan that intertwines their lives and connects them in surprising and funny ways.
Through her plan, Maggie learns that sometimes destiny should be left to its own devices.
“Maggie’s Plan” is rated R for language and brief sexuality. It shows through June 23.
“Tale of Tales” features Salma Hayek and John C. Reilly in a Baroque fantasy directed by Matteo Garrone. The film follows the misadventures of three kings — Reilly of Darkwood, who is trying to, through unusual means, conceive a child with his queen Hayek; the not-too-bright monarch of Highhills, who marries off his daughter to a brutal ogre and has developed a strange obsession with breeding a giant flea; and the sex-obsessed crown of Strongcliff, who is in for a shock when the woman he falls in love with is not quite what she seems.
Filled with a barrage of mind-boggling gorgeous and fantastical imagery, “Tale of Tales” is an examination of the dark heart of fairy tales.
“Tale of Tales” is not rated and shows at the Ross through June 16.
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