This film was not a comedy, romance, drama nor musical so it failed on many levels.
First of all, Maggie (Dakota Johnson) is the main character, the white girl struggling to make her dreams come true, as though there aren't enough films like that already. Maggie is an assistant for the fictitious superstar Grace Davis (Tracee Ellis Ross) who wants to put out new music but her new songs have nothing on her hits. Maggie wishes to be a producer and does discover a hot, young singer, David (Kelvin Harrison, Jr, finally in a nice guy role) who somehow already has money. He is quite talented and Maggie thinks she has his big break in the palm of her hands but when she springs that he will be opening for Grace Davis, he walks away causing Maggie to lose her job.
So this is when I predicted that David was Grace's estranged son and I was right which led me to the issue of when David sees her and greets as 'Mom' when they've barely seen each other in his lifetime and the fact that Grace has a child isn't public knowledge so that scene was not played out nor written well.
Of course everything works out in the end, Maggie gets her dream job and the guy while Grace is able to finally put out new music. It's just such a shame that this film fails on so many level when the roles are good and the acting is great. Too bad the film wasn't inventive or daring in any sort of way. Grade: C+
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