Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) is stuck in a dead-end job and needs a break. Her best friend, Jamie (Margaret Qualley), just broke up with her girlfriend (Beanie Feldman) and needs to skip town for a little while, too. The two girls decide to use a drive-away service, basically a one-way rental car, to Tallahassee, Florida to visit Marian's family. The catch is that they have to have the car at a specific address at a specific time. Rule-follower Marian is fine with this but Jamie is all about the journey, not the destination. What the girls don't know is that there is a time-sensitive package in the trunk belonging to a certain Senator (Matt Damon) who will do anything to get it back.
This had a great cast and a very well-regarded director but it fell completely flat for me. Qualley's accent was terribly distracting and Viswanathan was given almost nothing to do. This is a Hijinks and Vibes kind of movie and I was not on the right wavelength for it. None of the jokes landed and I found the reveal of the MacGuffin tiresome instead of titillating. But I will give it praise for being unapologetically pro-LGBT.
It just came off (sigh) Max so hunting it down might be a little harder but I'm sure it'll make the streaming circuit again in next few months.
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