'Plan B' might be this year's 'Booksmart' -- a teen comedy with a morning-after message
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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. "One little mistake can ruin the rest of your life," mom warns her near the outset, during a talk it feels like they've had a hundred times, a line that hovers over everything that Sunny does over the next 100 minutes or so.
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