Maddie Barker's car has been repossessed, and without the ability to drive for Uber, she's in danger of losing her house. With disaster looming, this frivolous party girl needs a solution -- and she finds it in a Craigslist ad seeking an experienced young woman to "date" a shy young man in the summer between high school and college.

The advertisers are wealthy couple Laird and Allison Becker (Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti), who are worried that their son Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman) hasn't done anything exciting or taken any risks in his life. They hope that having an attractive girl seduce him -- and yes, "date" is a euphemism in this case -- will break him out of his shell, and they're willing to give the right applicant a nice used car to do it.

Maddie needs a car, and she's willing to "date his brains out" to get one.

Jennifer Lawrence plays Maddie, and let's face it, there's probably no actress better today when it comes to that clumsy sort of sexy that she does so well -- probably because, based on the number of clips I've seen of her playful interviews and tripping at awards ceremonies, it's a reflection of her true persona. In any case, she's got a lovable goofiness about her that makes her mercenary attitude toward her young target more appealing than it might otherwise be.

Folks apparently have raised a few red flags because of the 12-year age difference between Feldman and Lawrence, but it's interesting to note that those folks didn't complain when Lawrence hooked up with Bradley Cooper (15 years her senior) in Silver Linings Playbook, or that Percy's parents in this movie, Broderick and Benanti, are 17 years apart in age.

In any case, No Hard Feelings is genuinely funny and even a little sweet. It's a nice entry in the romantic comedy genre, one that I wouldn't mind watching again sometime.

Feldman handles the awkwardness his character demands with skill and more subtlety than one might expect in a rom-com. But Lawrence dominates the movie with a fearless performance that reminds me just how good she is in, well, just about everything I've seen her in to date.