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No Hard Feelings: Plot, Cast, Ending & Where to Watch

2023 · United States of America · Comedy, Romance · 1h 43m · English

No Hard Feelings is a 2023 United States of America comedy film directed by Gene Stupnitsky. This guide covers the plot, full cast, an overview of the ending, where to watch, and similar films you might want next.

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Original Title
No Hard Feelings
Director
Gene Stupnitsky
Writers
Gene Stupnitsky, John Phillips
Country
United States of America
Runtime
1h 43m
Release
Jun 15, 2023
§ 01 Plot · 6 min read

No Hard Feelings Plot Summary

No Hard Feelings is a 2023 American sex comedy film starring Jennifer Lawrence as a woman hired by a wealthy couple to romance their romantically and sexually inexperienced son, played by Andrew Barth Feldman. The film is directed by Gene Stupnitsky from a screenplay he co-wrote with John Phillips. Along with Lawrence—who was one of the film's producers—and Feldman, the film stars Laura Benanti, Natalie Morales, and Matthew Broderick.

● Quick takeaway

No Hard Feelings (2023) is a United States of America comedy film, directed by Gene Stupnitsky, running 103 minutes. On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to “date” their introverted 19-year-old son, Percy, before he leaves for college. To her surprise, Maddie soon discovers the awkward Percy is no sure thing. Stars Jennifer Lawrence and Andrew Barth Feldman. Critical reception: IMDb 6.3/10, Rotten Tomatoes 71%, Metacritic 59/100. Tagline: "Pretty. Awkward.." This guide covers the plot, full cast, ending, and where to watch.

§ 02 Cast · 6 roles

Cast and Characters

Jennifer Lawrence headshot
Jennifer Lawrence
as Maddie Barker
Lawrence both produces and stars — the project was developed at her Excellent Cadaver shingle — and the film is in large part a vehicle to remind audiences that she has long had a hard-R comic register the Hunger Games years held back. The Montauk skinny-dip sequence, played for full-frontal slapstick rather than titillation, became the picture's most-discussed five minutes; Maddie is the kind of working-class adult role Lawrence rarely gets to play in studio comedies.
Andrew Barth Feldman headshot
Andrew Barth Feldman
as Percy Becker
Feldman, a former Broadway Evan Hansen making his feature-film debut, plays the 19-year-old Princeton freshman Percy Becker. The role is the film's emotional centre: a wealthy, isolated, painfully self-aware teenager whose parents have hired a stranger to socialise him. Feldman's piano performance of Hall & Oates's 'Maneater' at the family dinner scene is the film's tonal pivot point, where the comedy first lets Percy have his own register.
Laura Benanti headshot
Laura Benanti
as Allison Becker
Benanti, a Tony-winning Broadway musical lead, plays Percy's mother Allison as the architect of the film's central transaction: a wealthy Montauk parent who has decided, with her husband, that the right Craigslist ad is the right intervention for their introverted son. Benanti calibrates the role to refuse the cartoon-helicopter-mother template — Allison is a loving, anxious parent making a deeply questionable decision in good faith, and the performance lets the audience see both halves at once.
Natalie Morales headshot
Natalie Morales
as Sara
Morales plays Maddie's best friend Sara as the film's pragmatic conscience — a townie peer who has watched the contract from the first meeting and has not been buying any of Maddie's progressive rationalisations of it. Her scenes with Lawrence are the picture's relief valve: the conversations in which someone finally names what is happening, and the audience gets to hear it said aloud before the film makes Maddie face it herself.
Matthew Broderick headshot
Matthew Broderick
as Laird Becker
Broderick plays Percy's father Laird with the slightly distracted bonhomie that has become his late-career signature — a wealthy Montauk dad who has signed off on the contract but is mostly happy to let his wife run the operation. The casting reads as a knowing genre wink: the Ferris Bueller actor playing the parent who has hired a stranger to socialise his son lets the film carry a small-scale generational joke about how this comedy template has shifted across thirty-five years.
Scott MacArthur headshot
Scott MacArthur
as Jim
MacArthur plays Sara's husband Jim as a Montauk townie who keeps trying to keep the peace between Maddie and his wife, then giving up and joining whichever conversation is louder. The role is small but works as a structural counterweight to Maddie's chaos: the steady married friend in the next house, the second voice at the kitchen-table conversations that the film leans on to slow the story down between set-pieces.
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Ending Overview

How does No Hard Feelings end? Our spoiler-aware breakdown walks through the final act beat by beat — including the choices, motivations, and ambiguous final shot that viewers most often debate.

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Frequently Asked

What is No Hard Feelings about?

On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to “date” their introverted 19-year-old son, Percy, before he leaves for college.

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