Plan B (2021)

This sweet but raunchy comedy about teenage girls in search of the morning after pill in South Dakota  is good fun and Jack and I liked it a lot. Kuhoo Verma and Victoria Moroles are terrific as Sunny (of Indian/South Asian heritage) and Lupe (Latina), respectively. Apparently it was pitched as Harold and Kumar plus emergency contraception. In fact, the writers of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) are among the producers.

The only faces in the cast I could place were Rachel Dratch as the sex ed teacher and Gus Birney as mean girl Megan. Jack recognized Edi Patterson, who plays Doris at the gas station.

This is a terrific feature debut for actress Natalie Morales (different spelling from the co-star) as director and for the screenwriting team of Joshua Levy and Prathiksha Srinivasan.

Isabella Manfredi's short music cues can be streamed with a subscription to Apple Music and for free on Spotify. Then I counted 31 songs in the credits, old songs and new, pretty much all good.

Though set in South Dakota, it was shot in Syracuse and Skaneateles, New York.

Dratch was last blogged for Wine Country. This the second feature for Verma (she had a small part in The Big Sick) and fourth for Moroles, and Birney played another mean girl in I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Patterson was in Knives Out and dozens of other projects, including four episodes of Black-ish. Morales was most recently in these pages for acting in Stuber, and Levy and Srinivasan worked on a few TV series.

Rotten Tomatoes' are right with our Plan A, averaging 97% and its audiences aren't far behind at 89. We watched this on Hulu on June 2. Highly recommended and I look forward to Morales' next feature, Language Lessons, to be released later this year.