Bawdy teen comedy on Hulu, featuring Indian-American, deftly tackles a mature theme newsindiatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsindiatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Chris Vognar May 25, 2021Updated: May 26, 2021, 4:54 pm
Kuhoo Verma as Sunny (left) and Victoria Moroles as Lupe in a still from “Plan B.” Photo: Brett Roedel / Hulu
There have been a number of recent films about young women on quests for reproductive services at a time when the government has made such services scarce. “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” comes to mind, as does “Test Pattern.” These are taut dramas with a sense of Big Brother foreboding. They’re serious business.
The new film “Plan B,” premiering Friday, May 28, on Hulu, tackles that same subject matter, with belly laughs at the ready. It’s a raunchy teenage quest movie in the spirit of “Superbad,” with myriad bits of improv-flavored gross-out absurdity. Beneath its swagger, however, is a deceptively tender story about the awkwardness of teenage sex from a female perspective, and a trenchant critique of the restrictions placed on a woman’s control of her body by a system that ran
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