This is a comedy that could have been a misfire but Lawrence and the cast burn on all...
“No Hard Feelings” takes place in Montauk, Long Island, a vacation spot where the summer brings together wealthy visitors and hardscrabble townies who resent the annual invasion. Of course, Lawrence is one of the townies, Maddie. Her house is totally paid for, but she might lose it anyway, because she has fallen behind on her exorbitant property tax, which goes up every year.
What you might expect from the movie based on that premise is a lot of rude, abrasive comedy. There’s plenty of that, to be sure, but a welcome aspect of the screenplay is that it doesn’t push the characters to act like typical characters in a raunchy comedy. Instead, once the situation and the characters are off and running, the movie unfolds in an unforced way, going in unexpected directions.
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