Tagline: Old school meets new life.
After dropping off their 22-year-old daughter Maddie to her senior year at Decatur University in Atlanta, Dan tells Deanna that he wants a divorce because he has fallen in love with another woman, realtor Marcie. Heartbroken, Deanna visits her parents Mike and Sandy to tell them what happened, with Mike furiously denouncing Dan for making Deanna drop out of college in her final year because she was pregnant, as well as his overbearing ways during their marriage.
Deanna visits Maddie to tell the news and about her plans to enroll at Decatur University to finish her degree in Archaeology. Maddie is doubtful, but supportive. She introduces Deanna to her sorority friends Amanda, neurotic Debbie, and Helen. Deanna later meets her agoraphobic and chronically depressed roommate Leonor. On the first day of school, she meets demeaning girls Jennifer and Trina, who mock Deanna’s age.
Deanna, supported by good friend Christine, joins Dan, supported by Marcie, at a mediation session to prepare their divorce papers. Marcie intends to sell their house without Deanna’s approval. Maddie and her friends take Deanna to a frat party, where she meets a student named Jack, a friend of Maddie’s boyfriend, Tyler. The next morning mother and daughter catch each other leaving the bedrooms of their respective guys. Jack has truly fallen for Deanna, and they have sex again in the stacks at the library.
Another night, they attend an 80’s-themed party where Deanna has a dance-off with Jennifer, resulting in earning the respect of her schoolmates. She has became both “one of the girls” but also a trusted mentor to Maddie’s sorority sisters, who make her an honorary sister. Deanna is also doing great in her classes, until she has a midterm exam that requires an oral presentation. Her stage fright causes her to collapse part way through.
Life of the Party is a 2018 American comedy film directed by Ben Falcone and written by Falcone and Melissa McCarthy. It is the third film directed by Falcone and co-written by the pair, following Tammy (2014) and The Boss (2016). The film, starring McCarthy, Molly Gordon, Gillian Jacobs, Jessie Ennis, Adria Arjona, Maya Rudolph, Julie Bowen, Matt Walsh, Debby Ryan, with Stephen Root and Jacki Weaver, follows a newly divorced mother who returns to college to complete her degree, and ends up bonding with her daughter’s friends.
Life of the Party (2018)
Directed by: Ben Falcone
Starring: Gillian Jacobs, Julie Bowen, Debby Ryan, Adria Arjona, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Stephen Root, Heidi Gardner, Jacki Weaver, Christina Aguilera, Sarah Baker, Molly Gordon
Screenplay by: Ben Falcone, Melissa McCarthy
Production Design by: Rusty Smith
Cinematography by: Julio Macat
Film Editing by: Brian Scott Olds
Costume Design by: Kari Perkins
Set Decoration by: Amy McGary
Art Direction by: Heather R. Dumas
Music by: Fil Eisler
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual material, drug content and partying.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: May 11, 2018
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