Maggie has a plan: as a single, 30-something New Yorker and university professor, she decides not to subject herself to marital failure and instead to become a single mother. While organizing artificial insemination, she meets John, a professor of anthropology and a tormented writer. When they fall in love to the point where he leaves his wife Georgette, Maggie sees her life taking an unexpected turn towards baby and wedding. But after a few years together, Maggie realizes she needs a new plan to balance her life, pushing John back towards his ex-wife Georgette...

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The girl with her head in the stars in Frances Ha, the hip and upbeat city girl in Mrs. America is now an independent and idealistic mother in Maggie's Plan: Greta Gerwig’s career emerged from the independent mumblecore movement that spans an entire generation. As directed by Rebecca Miller, the maker of The Ballad of Jack and Rose and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, she is animated with the same fantastic energy, the strange mixture of woman-child and existential philosopher that she takes with her from film to film – creating a bridge to the works of Noah Baumbach. A bit messy, Maggie's Plan refuses to obey the rules of romantic or pure comedy (the excellent Julianne Moore is never pushed into the usual comic hysteria), preferring to float along as a bittersweet triangle until a conclusion balances the equation. Greta Gerwig fans will be enthusiastic, others certainly charmed by this adventure.