History Film / NoHardFeelings

** The age gap between Percy's parents is at least as high as between him and Maddie (the actors are 17 years apart)- and it is clearly visible. But it isn't even mentioned, possibly a case of Moral Myopia.

Maddie Barker (Lawrence) is a slacker with a habit of ghosting her past lovers. When she is in danger of losing her mother's house due to higher property taxes, she finds an ad listing by a rich couple named Alison and Laird Becker (Benanti and Broderick, respectively) to "date" (i.e. sleep with) their awkward son Percy (Feldman) before he goes off to college, in exchange for a Buick Regal that Maddie can use for her job as an Uber driver. While Maddie goes in with selfish intentions, she begins to form a genuine friendship with Percy.

* ActionGirl: Maddie is a very skilled brawler, as she demonstrates when she beats the shit out of three people with her bare hands, [[FullFrontalAssault and her bare ass.]]

* ButtMonkey: Throughout the film Maddie gets subjected to various AmusingInjuries, slapstick and humiliating situations, as she dates Percy.

** Maddie was more than willing to sleep with Percy purely to win a free car, but she refuses to do so when he gets too drunk and tells her he loves her.

* GenderBlenderName: Maddie assumes Jodie, Percy's former nanny, is a woman at first.

* MeetCute: Invoked. Maddie and Percy's parents deliberately stage one when they ask her to visit Percy at the animal shelter where he does some volunteer work so they can hit it off "naturally". Unfortunately, he either can't take a hint or is just so anxious that he clams up in her presence. He even [[MistakenForMurderer mistakes Maddie for a serial killer]] and pepper sprays her.

* SummerRomance: Deconstructed. Percy's parents want him to get an older...friend to take his virginity, so he can become more experienced and less afraid of life before he goes to college. They hire Maddie for this purpose, and Percy immediately has feelings for her. While Maddie is initially prepared to go through with it, they develop a (nonsexual) friendship over the summer that helps them both grow into adulthood.

* DoubleStandard: It's essentially the plot of the movie. Even though Maddie is questioned for her inappropriate behaviour around Percy, even when he clearly isn't interested, she never faces direct repercussions for this. If the roles were reversed, Maddie would be nearly impossible to root for. She even has the gall to suggest that Jodie is a pedophile for being Percy's nanny for so long, despite Maddie planning on having sex with him. [[EasilyForgiven The film also ends with them still being friends.]]

* FullFrontalAssault: Maddie is buck naked when she fights the three assholes who steal her and Percy's clothes while they're skinny-dipping. And she still kicks their asses.

* PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil: Maddie attempts to crash a teen party, but her attempt to brush off two guys hitting on her ([[MaamShock and calling her old]]) by telling them to go screw each other immediately gets her accused of hating gay people by the overly sensitive teens. It's clear that this isn't just an example of TheGenerationGap when the boy's Gen X parents are just as outraged over something so insignificant. It adds a rather uncomfortable class war dynamic between LowerClassLout Maddie and the super-PC, [[VillainousGentrification out-of-town]] yuppie family.

* IronicEcho: After their skinny-dipping session, Percy is left hanging onto the front of Maddie's car while she drives away and says "I guess we're doing this." Near the end of the film when she tries to apologize to him, he does the same to her and repeats the same phrase.

* SkinnyDipping: Maddie tries to seduce Percy by convincing him to go skinny-dipping with her at night. The mood is ruined, however when a bunch of teens try to steal their clothes and Maddie has to get out of the water to beat them up.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When Maddie attempts to kick down the door of the room where she thinks [[spoiler:Percy is about to have sex with Natalie]], instead of [[OpenSaysMe opening]] her whole foot just goes through the flimsy wood of the door.

* BlatantLies: When Percy asks his parents if they were behind one of his school bullies getting expelled, his father Laird tries to deny it, claiming that he'd been told it was the bully's dream to go to military school.

* PoliticalOvercorrectness: Maddie attempts to crash a teen party, but her attempt to brush off two guys hitting on her ([[MaamShock and calling her old]]) by telling them to go screw each other immediately gets her accused of hating gay people by the overly sensitive teens. It's clear that this isn't just an example of TheGenerationGap when the boy's Gen X parents are just as outraged over something so insignificant. It adds a rather uncomfortable class war dynamic between LowerClassLout Maddie and the super-PC, [[VillainousGentrification out-of-town]] yuppie family.

* ToplessnessFromTheBack: When Maddie undresses to go skinny-dipping with Percy, it is depicted this way. However, she's later shown fully naked while fighting a bunch of teens trying to steal their clothes.

** When Maddie goes SkinnyDipping with Percy after their dinner, he worries that it's very similar to the opening of ''Film/{{Jaws}}''.

* ShoutOut: Percy is seen playing ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' at one point.

* PoliticalOvercorrectness: Maddie attempts to crash a teen party, but her attempt to brush off two guys hitting on her by telling them to go screw each other immediately gets her accused of hating gay people by the overly sensitive teens. It's clear that this isn't just an example of TheGenerationGap when the boy's Gen X parents are just as outraged over something so insignificant. It adds a rather uncomfortable class war dynamic between LowerClassLout Maddie and the super-PC, [[VillainousGentrification out-of-town]] yuppie family.

* MeetCute: Invoked. Maddie and Percy parents deliberately stage one when they ask her to visit Percy at the animal shelter where he does some volunteer work so they can hit it off "naturally". Unfortunately, he either can't take a hint or is just so anxious that he clams up in her presence. He even [[MistakenForMurderer mistakes Maddie for a serial killer]] and pepper sprays her.

* PoliticalOvercorrectness: Maddie attempts to crash a teen party, but her attempt to brush off two guys hitting on her by telling them to go screw each other immediately gets her accused of hating gay people by the overly sensitive teens. It's clear that this isn't just an example of TheGenerationGap when the boy's Gen X father is just as outraged over something so insignificant. It adds a rather uncomfortable class war dynamic between LowerClassLout Maddie and the super-PC, [[VillainousGentrification out-of-town]] yuppie family.

* PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil: Maddie attempts to crash a teen party, but her attempt to brush off two guys hitting on her by telling them to go screw each other immediately gets her accused of hating gay people by the overly sensitive teens. It's clear that this isn't just an example of TheGenerationGap when the boy's Gen X father is just as outraged over something so insignificant. It adds a rather uncomfortable class war dynamic between LowerClassLout Maddie and the super-PC, [[VillainousGentrification out-of-town]] yuppie family.