About Laggies
Laggies is a comedy, drama, romance film released in 2014 exploring themes of friendship, parent child relationship, female friendship, coming of age, female protagonist, mumblecore. Directed by Lynn Shelton, it stars Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell. Overeducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think about her future and no one to relate to, Megan is comfortable lagging a few steps behind - while her friends check off milestones and celebrate their new grown-up status. When her high-school sweetheart proposes, Megan panics and- given an unexpected opportunity to escape for a week - hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year old Annika and Annika's world-weary single dad Craig.