Awhile ago, we reported that Aubrey Plaza of NBC’s Parks and Recreation fame was attached to star in a teen comedy called The Hand Job. Stop snickering I can hear you. Since then, very little has been discussed about the project, but during an interview with Bill Hader for the upcoming Greg Mattola film Paul, The Playlist managed to get some more information out of him. What connection does he have? His wife Maggie Carey wrote the script and will be directing. Now that is a talented husband and wife.
Hader let lose some of the cast Carey and company have been able to wrangle together, which include: Alia Shawkat, Donald Glover, Mae Whitman, Andy Samberg, Connie Britton (Tami Taylor on the Friday Night Lights TV show), Johnny Simmons, and Hader himself. He also went into detail about the plot of The Hand Job to the Playlist folks, which I now quote to you below:
It’s about her playing an type-A, studious girl who graduates high school and hasn’t done anything with a guy. The summer before college she decides that she has to find out how to do everything in order to be properly prepared, so she makes a very serious bullet list of everything, like… handjob, titty-fuck, blow-job, fingering, and just kinda checks one off every time she does it. She’s being the aggressor and is very straight-forward about it, like ‘Okay, so I’m going to give you a hand-job now.’ And the guys are very taken aback about it, especially her straight-laced friends.
I can totally see Plaza in the lead role, and apparently Carey wrote it with her in mind, so this seems like a perfect starring role for her dry and awkward sense of humor. Couple that with a cast filled with some of the funniest people in entertainment (especially Donald Glover, who’s amazing in everything he does) and my obsessive love for coming of age comedies, and this looks like a home run…even if hand jobs are the bronze metal of sexual activity.
The only snag right now is that financing isn’t completely secured yet, but I’d be surprised if they don’t get it together soon and get to shooting. It’ll be nice to see a movie people are invested in making come out for once.
Look at all those names! Are you pumped for The Hand Job?