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Gene Stupnitsky, one of the creative minds behind Amazon’s surreal comedy “Jury Duty,” co-wrote and directed “No Hard Feelings.” Lawrence plays a down-on-her-luck Uber driver who accepts a Craigslist ad to “date” an introverted 19-year-old boy (newcomer Andrew Barth Feldman) before he goes to college. Meanwhile, comedian Sebastian Maniscalco’s meet-the-parents style “About My Father” and stand-up Jo Koy’s dysfunctional family story “Easter Sunday” were largely ignored at the box office. With PG-13 attempts, star-driven vehicles like Julia Roberts and George Clooney’s “Ticket to Paradise” and Sandra Bullock’s “The Lost City” had better success at connecting with moviegoers (with each eclipsing $150 million globally). Those films were less expensive than “No Hard Feelings,” with budgets of $22 million or less. Billy Eichner’s raunchy “Bros” also misfired last year with just $14 million worldwide, while “Cocaine Bear” turned into a modest win with $87 million globally. Earlier this summer, Sony and Legendary’s “The Machine,” inspired by Bert Kreischer’s stand-up routine of the same name, flopped with $10 million globally. Studios have been revisiting the comedic genre to mixed results.
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It holds a 60% on Rotten Tomatoes, with Variety’s Owen Gleiberman writing “the film’s promise of risky business is little more than a big tease.” Other critics praised Lawrence as an actor “who’s never anything but watchable.”Ī plus for Sony: “No Hard Feelings” doesn’t have competition until later in the summer, when Universal’s R-rated “Strays,” about a dog who is abandoned by his deadbeat owner, opens in August. Attendance at the domestic box office will be crucial for “No Hard Feelings” because broad comedies tend to have limited appeal with international audiences.
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