The new film Plan B follows two teenagers on a trek to obtain a morning-after pill. Surprisingly warm but also broadly funny, it s a tricky balance executed very well.
Few films walk a tonal tightrope as tricky as the one undertaken by
Plan B, a terrific out-all-night comedy now available on Hulu that manages to combine the energy of
Booksmart with the compassion for teenagers and their parents of
Blockers. It adds, however, a refreshing and rare at least until recently willingness to tell a story about one of the things that can genuinely create a desperate situation for a girl this age: access to reproductive health care.
In this case, Sunny (Kuhoo Verma) is a South Dakota high school student whose first sexual encounter is unsatisfying and regrettable even before she realizes that a birth-control mishap means she s at risk of getting pregnant. (It s worth noting that out of all the birth-control mishaps you ve seen in movies, this is one of the least shown but most plausible, particularly for teenagers whose sex education has been patchy and incomplete.) She knows her best chance to guard against pregnancy at this point is the mornin
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‘Plan B’ might be this year’s ‘Booksmart’ a teen comedy with a morning-after message
Hulu might be the home of this year’s “Booksmart” with “Plan B,” a bawdy coming-of-age teen comedy that also comes with a sharply incorporated message. Directed by actor Natalie Morales (“Parks and Recreation”), the edgy nature of the material shouldn’t overshadow the stellar performances and timely window into efforts to curb women’s reproductive rights.
The centerpiece here is a pair of teenage outcasts living in South Dakota. When Sunny (Kuhoo Verma), the honor student, engages in what can only be called an ill-advised, impulsive and extremely unglamorous sexual encounter, she enlists her more worldly friend Lupe (Victoria Moroles) on a cross-state trek to find a location that will sell her a Plan B pill (a.k.a. the “morning after” pill), all before her mom (Jolly Abraham) can return from an out-of-town conference.
With “Plan B” and “Language Lessons,” the actress is finally getting to start a career behind the camera, a goal one talent agency couldn’t understand.