Studio comedies are back on the big screen with No Hard Feelings. This movie follows Maddie, played by Jennifer Lawrence, a broke Uber driver who ends up losing her car and needs to pay a lot of unpaid bills.
Maddie sees a post online where rich parents are looking for a good-looking girl to be the girlfriend of their 19-year-old introverted son to help him come out of his shell so that he gets ready for his college. In return, the parents will give their car if the job is done.
Since Maddie is a Uber Driver with no car and no money, she accepts this job so that she can get that car and finally pay off her bills. Maddie tries to seduce Percy when they first meet, but Percy ends up pepper spraying her, thinking that she wants to kidnap him.
Maddie clears things out by saying that she wasn’t trying to kidnap her and that she just thinks that he was hot. Hearing this, Percy gets flattered and asks her on a date. And from this point forward, we see one crazy thing after another.
No Hard Feelings Ending
At the end of No Hard Feelings, Maddie and Percy go on a Prom date to a fancy restaurant. Well, they don’t go to an actual prom, but since they both didn’t go to prom when they were in high school, they decide that their dare will be a prom date. So yeah, they go to a fancy restaurant and have dinner.
While eating, both Maddie and Percy talk for a bit, and then Maddie tells Percy to play the piano that was in the middle of the restaurant. At first, Percy tells them that he won’t play the piano, but then Maddie blackmails him that if he didn’t play the piano, then she would make a toast in the restaurant and tell everyone “how amazing of a lover” Percy is.
In the end, Percy has no other choice but to play the piano. He is a bit shy at first, but as I get a hold of him, he surprisingly plays very well. He plays the “Maneater” and also sings the lyrics as he plays the notes on the piano. He gets everyone’s attention and claps as he finishes his performance.
After finishing playing the song, Percy comes back to his table with Maddie, and Maddie is just shocked by how well he played.
Out of nowhere, Percy’s High school friend Natalie comes from behind and praises him for his performance and then invites him to the party where all kids who will go to Princeton will be celebrating.
Maddie tells Percy that they should go back to her place and have fun, but Percy brings up the conversation about continuing their relationship as a long distant relationship once he goes to college. But Maddie tells him that she doesn’t want to do long-distance relationships. This breaks Percy’s heart, so he goes to that Princeton party that Natalie invited him to.
The Princeton Party
Once Maddie and Percy arrive at the Princeton party, Percy gets out of the car and heads to the party alone, leaving Maddie behind. Maddie also gets out of the car and tries to find Percy at the party, but he is nowhere to be found. Maddie attracts a lot of eyes when she searches for Percy. All of the kids try to make a video of her when she acts like the crazy person she is.
Finally, one of the girls tells her that Percy might be upstairs in one of the rooms. Maddie goes through the upstairs room to find Percy, but he is still nowhere to be found. At last, she find the room Percy is in, but it was locked. So Maddie smashes through the door to stop Percy from having sex with Natalie.
As Maddie gets into the room, she finds Percy in bed with Natalie, but Percy isn’t feeling well. He tells Maddie that he took some pills and that he is now feeling dizzy. Maddie takes him to the toilet to make him vomit out the pills.
The parents of the house where the party is taking place come into that room and tell Maddie to leave the party. This doesn’t sit well with Percy, so he tries to punch the Man but ends up punching Maddie in her throat.
Both of them ride back in the car, where Oercy tells Madfie that he is ready for her and that he wants to have sex with her right now. But before they can start with the action, Percy says, “I love you” to Maddie. Hearing this, she tells him that they shouldn’t do this tonight since Percy is drunk.
But the real reason Maddie told him to hold off was that she didn’t want to break his heart by having a fake intimate moment from her side right after Percy confessed his true feelings.
The Truth Comes Out
The Next morning, Percy comes out of his room all happy and tells his parents that he wants to get a driving license. He tells them about his girlfriend Maddie and then drops the bomb by telling them that he is not going to Princeton because he wants to stay here and be with his girlfriend. Hearing this, Percy’s parents get shocked and tell Percy to go wait in the car.
Percy’s parents then call Maddie and tell her about the situation. They tell her to convince Percy to go to Princeton and that she can have the car they promised after that. Maddie asks them, “Ok, so I don’t have to have Sex with Percy now to get the car?” While in the car, Percy accidentally gets connected to the call and hears what Maddie said on the call.
Percy gets heartbroken after hearing about this truth and plans revenge on his parents and Maddie. He invites Maddie to his house to have dinner with his parents without telling his parents. All of them have an awkward conversation about the whole 32 years old Maddie dating 19-year-old Percy.
Then Percy makes an excuse to leave dinner and takes the car that his parents were going to give To Maddie to a forest and destroys it the best he can.
After returning back to the house, Percy goes straight to his bedroom. Maddie sees him and follows him to his bedroom. When both of them are in Percy’s bedroom, Percy tells her that he wants to have sex with her right now. Maddie agrees and gets in his bed. Both of them undress, but right when they start, Percy comes in a second.
Then Percy reveals to Maddie that he knows that his parents hired her and that he wants her to leave him alone. Maddie tries to clear things out, but Percy doesn’t want o hear anything.
No Hard Feelings Ending Explained
Maddie feels bad about what she did to Percy and that she hurt his feelings. Anyway, Maddie gets the car that she was promised by Percy’s parents, and she goes back to being a Uber Driver to collect all the money that she needs to pay her bills. But Maddie still doesn’t face her fears.
Sara and Jim tell Maddie that they will be leaving this place because their bay is on the way, and they don’t want to leave at Jim’s parent’s house anymore. They tell her that she should also face her fears and leave this place and be happy.
Finally, Maddie collects all the money that she needs. She pays off her bills, gets her car repaired, and finally faces all of her fears. She makes her first step to move on by getting her house on sale. She ends up selling the house to Sara and Jim.
Right at the end of No Hard Feelings, Maddie goes to meet Percy to apologize for what she did. They have a bit of an argument and a funny car scene at the beach. But Percy ends up forgiving her, and both of them go back to being friends.
Percy and Maddy pack their stuff and leave the place to start the next chapter of their life. They will be going on their separate paths and living their new life. Both of them are different people now, and in a way, they helped each other to come out of their shells.
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