"There's an early scene in Poetic License, Maude Apatow's directorial debut, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend, in which an idiosyncratic college senior with family money, played by Cooper Hoffman, floats the idea of creating a LinkedIn account. His best friend, a comparatively buttoned-up economics student named Sam (Andrew Barth Feldman), asks Hoffman'sAri what he would write on it."
"Poetic License is a movie about transition. By coincidence or otherwise, it comes from the Apatow school of zooming in on characters at major turning points in their lives (Apatow's father, Judd, is a producer, and her mother, Leslie Mann, co-stars in the movie). Ari is aimless and has made the executive decision to wean himself off his antidepressants; Sam is tortured by the prospect of going straight from college into a boring and unfulfilling career at Morgan Stanley."
Poetic License follows Ari, an aimless, privileged college senior who decides to wean himself off antidepressants, and his pragmatic friend Sam, who fears a boring corporate future at Morgan Stanley. Both boys become involved with Liz, a poetry-class auditor coping with her daughter Dora's imminent departure after high school. Their professor, Greta, is navigating a messy divorce. The ensemble delivers notable performances, with Leslie Mann receiving a role that showcases her strengths and Cooper Hoffman offering nuanced, quiet character work. The script by Raffi Donatich features crisp, fast-paced dialogue that supports strong interpersonal moments and transitions.
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