"Liz is prone to a little risk, and so when two college boys, Sam and Ari, who are in the poetry class she's auditing begin soliciting a friendship, she throws caution to the wind and accepts. It's a cute setup, faintly reminiscent of the social complications of a Nicole Holofcener film (particularly 2013's note-perfect Enough Said). Donatich's script is a little less brainy, but there are enough witty observations about human foibles and needs to bring to mind Holofcener, a master of the form."
"Written by Raffi Donatich, Poetic License concerns a family who have moved from Chicago to a sleepy university town where economist James (Cliff Method Man Smith), has secured a plum professorship. He's busy getting started, which leaves his wife Liz (Mann) a bit lonely and unmoored in her new life. Making matters worse is the inevitable drifting away of her high school-senior daughter, Dora (Parker), whose effort to make friends at her new school means she has to spend a little less time with mom."
Maude Apatow directs her debut, Poetic License, starring Leslie Mann, Cooper Hoffman and Nico Parker. The story follows a family that moves from Chicago to a quiet university town after economist James secures a professorship. Liz, James's wife, feels lonely while their daughter Dora drifts toward new high-school friends. Liz accepts the friendship of two college students from a poetry class she audits, setting up social complications and risks. Raffi Donatich's script offers witty observations about human foibles. The film balances a warm, lived-in texture with an improvisatory, loose vibe that benefits from perceptive casting.
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