Much advertised and anticipated Netflix Original movie, it came available just yesterday.
Set mostly in New York after she gets there, Ellen Page is Tallulah, and she usually just goes by Lu. We eventually learn that she had a difficult childhood which resulted in her not trusting others. She lives in her ratty van and cons or steals money and food to subsist. Or gets "leftovers" out of garbage cans. When her boyfriend starts talking about "love" and "marriage" and "having kids" she withdraws, tells him he can just leave if he doesn't like her position. He leaves during the night.
Lu ends up in New York. We learn later through flashbacks that she had met her boyfriend two years earlier in Manhattan and she knew where his mother, an author and professor, lives. She also knows that you can usually find a decent breakfast in the hallway outside hotel rooms, from room service leftovers. There she is surprised by a half-dressed woman who needs to go somewhere, is obviously half drunk, and has a toddler with her. She mistakes Lu for housecleaning and asks her to come in, eventually giving her some money to help her dress and to watch the baby.
All this eventually leads Lu to taking the baby, the mother obviously isn't fit to care for her, Lu is sympathetic, considering she had been abandoned, and she also sees it as a way to keep herself whole. She takes the baby to her boyfriend's mom's condo and tells her the baby is her granddaughter. Allison Janney is really good as the grandmother, Margo. But she has carved out her own space since her son just up and left two years earlier and wasn't in the mood to have a 20- something plus a baby stay with her.
All of this creates a number of sticky and mostly humorous situations. Lu and Margo each has the effect of changing the other. Is it a comedy or a drama? I'd say a good dose of both, real life is that way isn't it? Of course all this can't last forever, the distraught mom wants her baby back, the cops get involved. Lou has to grow up and figure out a new path through life. None of the issues are resolved by the end. Viewers are able to imagine how everything will be resolved.
My wife and I enjoyed the movie.
Set mostly in New York after she gets there, Ellen Page is Tallulah, and she usually just goes by Lu. We eventually learn that she had a difficult childhood which resulted in her not trusting others. She lives in her ratty van and cons or steals money and food to subsist. Or gets "leftovers" out of garbage cans. When her boyfriend starts talking about "love" and "marriage" and "having kids" she withdraws, tells him he can just leave if he doesn't like her position. He leaves during the night.
Lu ends up in New York. We learn later through flashbacks that she had met her boyfriend two years earlier in Manhattan and she knew where his mother, an author and professor, lives. She also knows that you can usually find a decent breakfast in the hallway outside hotel rooms, from room service leftovers. There she is surprised by a half-dressed woman who needs to go somewhere, is obviously half drunk, and has a toddler with her. She mistakes Lu for housecleaning and asks her to come in, eventually giving her some money to help her dress and to watch the baby.
All this eventually leads Lu to taking the baby, the mother obviously isn't fit to care for her, Lu is sympathetic, considering she had been abandoned, and she also sees it as a way to keep herself whole. She takes the baby to her boyfriend's mom's condo and tells her the baby is her granddaughter. Allison Janney is really good as the grandmother, Margo. But she has carved out her own space since her son just up and left two years earlier and wasn't in the mood to have a 20- something plus a baby stay with her.
All of this creates a number of sticky and mostly humorous situations. Lu and Margo each has the effect of changing the other. Is it a comedy or a drama? I'd say a good dose of both, real life is that way isn't it? Of course all this can't last forever, the distraught mom wants her baby back, the cops get involved. Lou has to grow up and figure out a new path through life. None of the issues are resolved by the end. Viewers are able to imagine how everything will be resolved.
My wife and I enjoyed the movie.