Rebecca Miller pulls audiences in with her unique take on relationships in ‘MAGGIE’S PLAN’

Preston Barta // Editor

Best known for directing works such as 2005’s THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE starring her husband Daniel Day-Lewis, Rebecca Miller sharpens her pencils and brings out the camera after a six-year hiatus to do MAGGIE’S PLAN, which opened in theaters this weekend.

The film follows Maggie (Greta Gerwig) who wants a baby of her own, but she doesn’t have a partner to knock her up. So rather than wait for the right guy to come along, she takes her fertility into her own hands and finds the right donor instead.

She is young, successful, and hungry for mommyhood. She’s got a plan and nothing will stop her. Well, that’s until she falls in love with the wrong man (Ethan Hawke), a married professor at her school who latches on to Maggie when his wife (Julianne Moore) just cannot give him what he needs. Now, Maggie is in love and pregnant, all her dreams are coming true… or are they?

Read Gwen Reyes review of the film here.

Fresh Fiction had the opportunity to sit down with Miller to discuss her writing process, the themes of her film and what we can learn about ourselves from it.

MAGGIE’S PLAN is now in theaters.
DALLAS: Angelika Film Center locations in Dallas and Plano.