Jennifer Lawrence has starred in The Hunger Games, played a member of The X-Men, and won an Oscar.

She hasn't done a ton of broad comedy until now.

She makes a left turn in no hard feelings

in which rich helicopter parents hire a woman

to seduce their teenage son in the hopes

that he'll come out of his shell in time for college.

I'm Stephen Thompson and today we are talking about no hard feelings on pop culture

happy hour from NPR.

Joining me today is the co-host of Slate's I see Y-M-I

podcast and former pop culture happy hour producer Candice Lim, Candice

Welcome back. Oh my God.

Stephen!

Hi.

Hey buddy.

Hi. I'm so happy to see you.

You too. Uh, so no hard feelings is an R-rated comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence as Maddie, a woman in her early 30s who lives in

Mon talk. When her car is repossessed by an ex, no less, she does what surely any of us would do

under the circumstances. She answers an ad in which parents seek a young woman who will date, date is in scare quotes, their 19 year old son in exchange for a free car.

The parents in question are played by Laura Bonanti and Matthew Broderick, and the son in question is Percy played by Andrew Barth Feldman, and it soon becomes clear that yes, they would like Maddie to have sex with Percy and that it has to happen before Percy heads off to Princeton in the fall.

She takes the job and all sorts of wild antics and bad decisions ensue.

No hard feelings was directed by Jean Stupnitzky who worked on the office and it was written by Stupnitzky and John Phillips.

They both worked on the movie Good Boys.

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