Overall, this movie was not the worst way to spend a Friday night.
Deanna Miles (Melissa McCarthy) is blind-sided by her husband (Matt Walsh) decides that he's going to divorce her, and sell the house which is his name only. After all, he's been having an affair with the real estate agent, Marcie Strong (Julie Bowen, too pretty for Walsh, making them an unbelievable couple). Upset that she dropped out of college to have her lovely daughter, Maddie (Molly Gordon), she decides to go back to college.
At first, Maddie isn't thrilled to have her mother, but eventually warms to the idea. Even though Deanna is in full Mom mode at first, Maddie eventually forces her to loosen up and soon becomes kind of a party girl and even catches the eye of frat boy Jack (Luke Benward). Though she tries to keep the relationship casual, she can't ignore the huge age difference, and tries to push off his advances. Jack is too clingy for a college guy, leave it to Hollywood to make attractive males too good to be true.
But there is a twist with Jack, he's Marcie's son. Yeah, they managed to slip a genuine surprise into this film. And even after Deanna ruins the wedding reception of Dan and Marcie, Jack doesn't hate her though he probably should have.
In the end, Deanna is able to earn enough money to stay in school with a little help from her friends and does graduate, after all, brains were the one thing she was never missing.
Deanna is absolutely a resilient character and McCarthy does a great job but the rest of the characters aren't nearly as well written. There's Helen (Gillian Jacobs) who was in a coma for eight years, which should never be funny but it is, and Leonor (Heid Gardner), Deanna's odd roommate who hardly ever leaves the room.
Still, the laughs are there and seeing Maya Rudolph is always welcome and boy, am I glad that I never encountered anyone having sex in the library stacks. Grade: B
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