Without the car, she can’t work and is likely to lose her house.ĭesperate, Maddie answers a Craigslist posting from concerned parents Laird (Matthew Broderick) and Allison (Laura Benanti). Maddie’s car is repossessed when she’s unable to pay her taxes. But her hometown, the Long Island summer beach community of Montauk, New York, is gentrifying. Maddie (Lawrence) is a 32-year-old Uber driver who starts the movie never having been paid for sex.
The Jennifer Lawrence vehicle from Sony Pictures revolves around a sex worker who, like the film, doesn’t want to admit what she’s doing.