Sony Pictures Classics Picks Up Rebecca Miller’s MAGGIE’S PLAN

Sony Pictures Classics picked up the US rights to Maggie’s Plan, which just had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival to much critical praise. The film is written and directed by Rebecca Miller and stars Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, and Julianne Moore.

Maggie’s Plan will next be screening at the New York Film Festival, kicking off tomorrow, but there’s no official release date just yet.

Here’s the synopsis via Tiff:

Maggie (Gerwig) wants a baby, but she’s never sustained a relationship longer than six months. She solicits a sperm donation from a Brooklyn pickle entrepreneur — no strings attached — but has hardly even begun the artificial-insemination process when she consummates a budding romance with John (Hawke, also at the Festival in Born to be Blue), an unhappily married academic hailed as “the bad boy of fictocritical anthropology.”

Maggie’s rejuvenating enthusiasm lures John away from his wife, domineering Danish critical theorist Georgette Norgaard (Moore), and the two settle down and have a daughter together. Everything has gone according to Maggie’s plan — so why isn’t she happy? And what sort of meddlesome scheme will she concoct next?