After a brief period out of the spotlight, the actor is back with raunchy comedy No Hard Feelings and a performance to remind us that she’s still at the top of her game
Because the advertisements for the new comedy No Hard Feelings have billed the film as an uncouth romp in the grandly off-color tradition of hard-R raunch, ticket-buyers may be somewhat surprised to find a heartfelt love letter to Montauk scrawled in the margins around the dirty doodles.
More than a telegenic setting, the harbor town nestled on the easternmost tip of Long Island really means something to the characters that live there, a blue-collar haven of breezy mornings and balmy nights rapidly growing too expensive for the locals fostering its barnacle-encrusted charm. The born-and-bred resent the tourists that pour in from the city and New York’s affluent suburbs with each summer, all the while depending on their money to make a nut that’ll last through the more sparsely trafficked remainder of the year. The script’s stakes chiefly concern touchy-feely stuff, but it still finds time to speak to the question of how much longer the weatherbeaten homes and salty-dog dock bars can survive in trying times.
