Best Laid Plans (1999)

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Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Josh Brolin, Alessandro Nivola, Rocky Carroll, Michael G. Hagerty

Director: Mike Barker

Writer: Theodore Griffin

Genre: Drama

Rating: R

Running Time: 90 min.

Advisory: for language and sexuality

Synopsis: Every cause has an effect. Every action has a reaction. So learns Nick, Lissa and Bryce when each tests the limits of their morality, they find themselves intertwined in a dangerous web of misguided friendship and desperate ambition. Nick, Lissa and Bryce are three people who are on the brink of changing the paths in their lives. Bryce, an old buddy of Nick's, is preparing for graduate school and a career in academics. Lissa is following her passion for art. And, Nick is planning on spending what he believes will be a lofty inheritance. But things go awry when Bryce's unexpected return back into Nick's life provides an opportunity to set things right -- and wrong. Each frantic to extract themselves from their predicament, they find they must make difficult moral decisions with life-altering consequences.

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Best Laid Plans (1999)

Hannah_Wilder: Saw Best Laid Plans last night with @journofriend - great film and a chance to briefly meet Mo Ali, and Brad Moore from MoliFilms x
sonajain: Saw Surprise driving by on a scooter. "Long time, no see," I yelled "Hey Control Freak, how are ur best laid plans panning?" she called back
SLKECK: Just watched the Scrubs episode "My Bed Banter & Beyond" twice in a row because it is that good. May have surpassed "My Best Laid Plans".
TomWatkins3: @StarNowJess @molifilms @starnow I just saw Best Laid Plans by these guys! If their next one is half as good it'd be great to be in it!
meandmybigmouth: Saw a screening of a movie called Best Laid Plans last night. A reinterpretation of Of Mice and Men set in modern Britain. Really very good.