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Formulaic romcom filled with clichés; language, drinking.

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Parents need to know that Plan A Plan B is an Indian romantic comedy about a matchmaker who opens shop in a shared office space with a divorce lawyer. They instantly detest each other, which predicts they will traipse happily ever after into the sunset together by the film's end. Throw in some dancing and…

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Parents need to know that Plan A Plan B is an Indian romantic comedy about a matchmaker who opens shop in a shared office space with a divorce lawyer. They instantly detest each other, which predicts they will traipse happily ever after into the sunset together by the film's end. Throw in some dancing and music, alcohol and drunkenness, kisses, and references to sex, and the formula is complete. Language includes "f--k," "s--t," "hell," "ass," "poop," and "booty." In Hindi with English subtitles. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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In PLAN A PLAN B, Nirali (Tamannaah Bhatia), a psychologist hanging out her shingle as a science-driven matchmaker, moves into a shared office space next door to her instant enemy, Kosty (Riteish Deshmukh), a divorce lawyer who gleefully separates people from the source of their unhappiness. She wants to bring joy to lonely people. He claims the joy comes when he releases unhappy people from their unions. Why marry when hookup apps just let you "do it," he asks. If you knew that three-quarters of all parachutes will fail, he goes on, would you go skydiving? Soon the two are engaged in open warfare, insulting each other to the amusement of office mates. Kosty seems to be an oblivious bon vivant who likes to drink and dance until he passes out on his married best friend's sofa. But his character turns around completely to the degree that Nirali's mother wants him for Nirali, even though he has an estranged wife whom he refuses to divorce. Will their hate turn to love?

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In Mediocre Romantic Comedy Land, the believability of the outcome of Plan A Plan B depends entirely on our willingness to accept that a smug, superior, controlling jerk is also a really lovely guy. Supposedly he has high moral standards and a soft spot for aging widows. But little in the movie supports that premise. Initially, when Nirali, who has given up on love, meets Kosty, nothing about their interaction predicts she'll find something to love in the jerk, except that that's the outcome written into the rules of romantic comedy. A few clever lines dispersed throughout don't make up for a complete abdication of character-building in this weak script. Why, for instance, won't Kosty give his estranged wife a divorce? He is, after all, a divorce attorney! But, hey, it's Mediocre Romantic Comedy Land.

We've all seen this movie before. Someone tries (not that hard) to tell Kosty that the person he's viciously badmouthing is standing right behind him, but he keeps spewing the vitriol. He finally realizes Nirali has heard his entire tirade against her and, although nothing in his personality has so far suggested he would care, for some inexplicable reason he feels bad. He's been saying equally hurtful things right to her face and Nirali hasn't flinched. Now, equally inexplicably, she is in tears. Of course she is. It's a Mediocre Romantic Comedy.

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• On DVD or streaming : September 29, 2022
• Cast : Tamannaah Bhatia , Riteish Deshmukh
• Director : Shashanka Ghosh
• Studio : Netflix
• Genre : Romance
• Run time : 105 minutes
• MPAA rating : NR
• Last updated : May 14, 2023

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When an earnest matchmaker moves into an office next to a cynical divorce attorney, their bitter conflict is complicated by a growing attraction.

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Review by Dharuna ★★½

The best character in this movie was Tamannaah’s outfits.

Review by sock ★

this is making me actively heterophobic

Review by Umar ★½

Plan A Plan B: Neither Plan is Working 

“Matchmaking is her job, not mine.”

Shashanka Ghosh’s Plan A Plan B  is insufferable. I haven’t been watching too many films lately so thought would get back into my groove with something light and cute. This isn’t light its nonexistent. Everything from its style, structure, tropes and dialogues are influenced by Hollywood. Instead of adapting all that into an Indian setting and giving us the musical bangers we want it just copy pastes with context included. Ritesh has talked about in interviews how he has been regulated to playing second fiddle but this film doesn’t do any favours in going against that. He is so uncharismatic and sleepwalks throughout the film. Tamannaah isn’t particularly bad just not noteworthy either. An incredibly dull romantic film where the couple have zero chemistry to distract from the bland script and filmmaking. 

Review by handmaidentales ★★★

whatever the fuck were those "kiss" scenes....

Review by Tara ½

Bedroom se lekar boredom tak ka safar.

I wish the makers would've went ahead with plan c: don't make this movie.

Review by Term1nator ★★★½

simple, funny and nice rom-com. Good ending

Review by rachel ★★★½

look. listen. this movie is perfect if by perfect i mean perfectly fine but i feel like i'm going insane reading these reviews. how is letterboxd rating this lower than Wedding Season, which has about half of this movie's charm and a fifth of its personality?

this feels like psyop. what's really behind this discrepancy? do you people not like to laugh? do you hate excellent costume and production design? it's just a fun, cute, by the books romcom????

Review by sreyvad ★ 1

Plan C : Don’t watch the movie.  Choose Plan C and thank me later.

Review by Ivan Nāgar ½

अपने घर वालों से हज़ार बातें सुन्नी पड़ीं इसे चलाने की वजह से

Review by EshaKB ★★

The worst and most fake looking “kiss” ever… 0 chemistry but a good watch when you don’t wanna watch too intensely

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wish i died instead of having to watch this

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‘Plan B’ Review: A Fresh Addition to the Burgeoning ‘BFF Reproductive Health Road Trip’ Genre

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Two is a coincidence and three is a trend — and that includes the burgeoning genre of road trip movies about teen BFFs dealing with reproductive health. Natalie Morales ‘ “ Plan B ” joins Eliza Hittman’s luminous “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” and Rachel Lee Goldenberg’s cheeky “Unpregnant” and, like those films, follows a pair of best friends who are forced to fend for themselves in a world that doesn’t value girls or their medical autonomy. Much like “Unpregnant” in particular, “Plan B” mixes real humor with some uncomfortable truths about the current state of sexual healthcare in America, though it doesn’t hammer its realities home quite as hard as its predecessors.

Best friends Lupe (Victoria Moroles) and Sunny (Kuhoo Verma in a star-making comedic turn) both come from strait-laced, “traditional” families — Sunny is convinced the “Indian mafia” are reporting back her every move to her overbearing mom, Lupe’s Mexican-American clan is decidedly church-centric — and are some of the few people of color in an overwhelmingly white small town in the middle of nowhere, South Dakota. They’re both a little bit sex-crazed (hey, turns out that puberty is weird and hormones are very real), with the more experienced Lupe dabbling in a sexting relationship with the mysterious Logan, while the more reserved Sunny is nursing a major crush on local cutie Hunter.

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Neither of their families are interested in having real conversations about sex, and their batty home economics teacher (Rachel Dratch in a small role) is saddled with teaching them about abstinence and little else. What’s a girl — a real, red-blooded, hormone-addled, classic teenage girl — to do? At least they have each other.

Boned up on plenty of teen movie lore and giddy with the blind luck of Sunny’s mom being out of town for the weekend, Sunny and Lupe opt to throw a rager, in hopes that both Logan and Hunter will attend  and  get busy with the darling BFFs during the night’s revelry. What could go wrong? After she overhears some mean girls terming her preppy sartorial look as being more “huge American Girl doll” than cool teen, Sunny opts for a quick-change makeover, including a handmade thong. One painfully honest virginity-losing session later, and the movie finds Sunny and Lupe in need of a different kind of diversion: How the hell they can obtain a Plan B pill before it’s too late for shell-shocked Sunny?

“Plan B” finds its drama in weirdo loopholes and mind-bendingly dumb state laws. Sunny and Lupe are denied the pill because they’re underage and South Dakota, like many states — and this is true! — allow its pharmacists to invoke a “conscience clause” when it comes to doling out emergency contraception to anyone under 18. (Basically, they can refuse it based on how they feel about the situation.) One bad pharmacy run later, the girls set out for the nearest Planned Parenthood, triggering a wacky and raunchy road trip with real stakes.

While both “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” and “Unpregnant” dug more deeply into the very real ramifications of such laws, “Plan B” is less adept at weaving together its on-screen hijinks with real world implications. Instead, it often zips off into raunchy, wild subplots that wouldn’t feel out of place in a film with less important matters on its mind. There’s a sequence that involves a pierced appendage that would probably make every single member of the MPAA ratings board scream, plus a number of subplots about illicit drugs, and while those are all funny enough, they tend to scan as coming from a different kind of movie.

The film is Morales’ second outing as a director in less than six months: She previously helmed the pandemic-produced “Language Lessons,” which she co-wrote and starred in with indie stalwart Mark Duplass. The same sense of intimacy and warmth that ran through that feature is present in “Plan B,” which often swaps those outsized comedic gags for moments built on close character interactions. Those are the moments when “Plan B” really seems to be working its magic.

Joshua Levy and Prathiksha Srinivasan’s script offers predictable beats and unexpected pleasures in equal measure; it’s inevitable that something will happen to force Sunny and Lupe into a knock-down-drag-out fight, but “Plan B” tackles that necessary beat with rare honesty and real laughs. Verma and Moroles are a formidable duo, mismatched BFFs with actual chemistry and obvious affection for each other, and Verma’s insane comedic timing in particular helps push the film forward even when it threatens to stall out as it tips between wacky comedy and key character moments.

It’s not exactly a good sign that the current state of America’s dismal reproductive healthcare rules and regulations, plus the continued discounting of young women of being capable of making their own choices, could inspire three films with roughly the same plot line in less than 18 months. But it’s also thrilling to see filmmakers contextualize these issues in human terms, and “Plan B” excels at entertainment as advocacy. It also just so happens to include a pierced penis as a hysterical plot point, and it’s exactly that degree of liberated raunchiness that makes it worthy of celebration.

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Last year, a pair of strong, tonally divergent films told stories of teen girls forced to circumvent a cruel lack of access to reproductive health services. Never Rarely Sometimes Always , Eliza Hittman’s astute and sobering drama, followed a 17-year-old and her cousin from rural Pennsylvania to New York as they sought an abortion for the former. A few months later, Unpregnant , a raucous comedy directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, chronicled the adventures of two friends on a similar mission.

As the most recent addition to the ever-evolving subgenre, Plan B risked becoming a tired rehash of its predecessors. But thanks to Natalie Morales ’ assured direction and knockout performances by the two leads, this spirited and affecting Hulu original steers decisively clear of that fate: Plan B begins as a classic teen comedy that, over the course of roughly two hours, distinguishes itself as an empathetic and quick-witted portrayal of how two friends grow up together.

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Release date: Friday, May 28 (Hulu) Cast:  Kuhoo Verma, Victoria Moroles, Michael Provost, Myha'la Herrold, Jolly Abraham, Mason Cook Director: Natalie Morales Screenwriter: Joshua Levy, Prathiksha Srinivasan

As in most buddy comedies, Sunny (Kuhoo Verma) and Lupe (Victoria Moroles) could not be more different. Sunny — very shy and incredibly smart — is desperate to escape the watchful eye of her Indian mother and have sex with her crush. Lupe, feistier and more rebellious, spends her time entertaining a string of lovers and eschewing her religious Mexican father’s pleas for her to dress — to paraphrase him — less ridiculously. The two bond over being outcasts at their predominately white high school in South Dakota.

Early scenes, which take place in the locker rooms, gym, classrooms and halls of said institution, efficiently establish Sunny and Lupe’s dynamic. Sunny bemoans her lack of sexual experience, while Lupe oscillates between playfully making fun of her and assuring her that her time will come soon. Their hilarious conversations, dripping in sarcasm and performed with a blithe ease, are sometimes interrupted by secondary characters who brilliantly make the most of their screen time — notably, mean girl Megan (Gus Birney) deploring Lupe’s armpit hair and Kyle (Mason Cook), an exasperating Christian boy, trying to impress the two friends with his magic tricks.

When Megan’s party gets cancelled (because her dad accidentally shot himself in the foot), Lupe offers Sunny’s house up for an impromptu Friday night rave (Sunny’s mom is out of town for the weekend). The plan is simple, really: get Sunny and her equally shy but predictably more popular crush, Hunter (Michael Provost), in the same place so the two can finally hook up.

Of course, that’s not what ends up happening. Hunter leaves the party early to drive a dangerously drunk Megan home, and a disappointed Sunny has sex with Kyle instead. The next morning, the used condom falls out of her vagina, and a panicked Sunny and Lupe rush to the pharmacy to buy Plan B. The pharmacist at the counter refuses to sell the pill to them, citing a ridiculous, but real, South Dakota legal clause that allows providers to deny minors access to contraceptive pills if it goes against their own morals.

Plan B ’s charm deepens when Sunny and Lupe embark on a three-hour drive to a Planned Parenthood in a different city. Prathiksha Srinivasan and Joshua Levy’s sharp script is elevated by Verma and Moroles’ natural chemistry, the actresses feeding off of each other’s energy and adding texture to their characters through animated facial expressions. In one particularly fine sequence, Sunny and Lupe cruise down the highway, listening to a low-key catchy Christian trap song with a chorus that repeats the line “do it all for Jesus.” Lupe, whose father is a pastor, timidly looks at Sunny, trying to gauge her reaction. They sit in silence until Sunny admits, “it’s kind of good,” and Lupe relaxes, confessing that she secretly loves the song. “Who are you?” Sunny replies half-jokingly. It’s a sweet exchange that reflects a particular kind of experience within close friendships: that moment when, reaching a new level of comfort, you unabashedly reveal a hidden part of yourself.

Over the course of the film, Sunny and Lupe’s road-trip adventures become increasingly outlandish, but even the most tired genre tropes feel fresh when filtered through these two leads. It’s worth noting, too, that the fact that Plan B needs to be taken within 72 hours (the first 24 being optimal) heightens the narrative stakes of the film. As they travel through South Dakota, the duo find themselves in desperate situations — including one where they fight over who will give a drug dealer a blow job in exchange for fake IDs — that naturally test the strength of their friendship. These situations also yield surprisingly introspective moments that enrich our understanding of Sunny and Lupe, imbuing them with personality and dimension beyond the fact that they’re both daughters of immigrants.

Plan B is not by any means a completely consistent film — the latter half suffers from an uneven pace, and some of Sunny and Lupe’s blowouts feel unearned considering their mutual admiration — but it takes its subjects seriously, and gives teen girls of color license to have fun and make mistakes. Coming on the heels of her well-received Berlinale-bowing film Language Lessons , this delightful feature confirms Morales as a director to keep an eye on.

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Distributor: Hulu Production companies: American High, Counterbalance Entertainment, LD Entertainment Cast: Kuhoo Verma, Victoria Moroles, Michael Provost, Myha'la Herrold, Jolly Abraham, Mason Cook Director: Natalie Morales Screenwriters: Joshua Levy, Prathiksha Srinivasan Producers: Ryan Bennett, Jeremy Garelick, Josh Heald, Dina Hillier, Jon Hurwitz, Mickey Liddell, Matt Lottman, Will Phelps, Hayden Schlossberg, Pete Shilaimon Executive producers: Chris Bongirne, Michael Glassman Cinematographer: Sandra Valde-Hansen Production designer: Nate Jones Costume designer: Lindsay Monahan Editor: Nathan Orloff Casting directors: Kathleen Chopin, Jill Anthony Thomas

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In the endearing comedy “Plan B,” Sunny (Kuhoo Verma) and Lupe (Victoria Moroles) are teenage best friends, bonded by hormonal longings and their will to sneak around their strict but loving parents.

Together, the pair throw a party when Sunny’s mom is out of town, and impulsively, Sunny has sex for the first time. When she wakes up, she realizes that she slept with a condom inside her body, risking an unplanned pregnancy. Emergency contraception is needed, and Lupe is right alongside her friend as she runs to retrieve it.

The only problem is that Sunny and Lupe live in South Dakota, a state that allows pharmacists to deny medication based on objections to reproductive rights. Sunny and Lupe are refused morning after pills at their local pharmacy, so they take to the road in search of the nearest Planned Parenthood, making room on their route for rendezvous with playground drug dealers and concerts headlined by crushes.

This buddy comedy ( streaming on Hulu ) was directed by the actress Natalie Morales , and her filmmaking demonstrates the same easy confidence she has shown as a performer in movies like “Battle of the Sexes” and TV series like “Dead To Me.” The pace isn’t rushed, the punch lines are casually underplayed and the performances are relaxed and charismatic. The emphasis in “Plan B” stays on its characters and their relationships with each other, and this grounded sense of care lends a sense of assurance to more risqué sequences — including an extended scene of full frontal male nudity.

The movie doesn’t make a joke of Sunny and Lupe’s concerns about pregnancy, dating and parental expectations, and in turn, it’s a delight to laugh through their goofier exploits.

Plan B Not rated. Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes. Watch on Hulu.

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