It stars Reese Witherspoon, Nat Wolff, Jon Rudnitsky, Pico Alexander, Michael Sheen and Candice Bergen, and follows a 40-year-old single mother who allows three young aspiring filmmakers to live with her in her Los Angeles home.

Alice has moved back into her father's Los Angeles home with her daughters, Isabel and Rosie, to be closer to her mother, Lillian.

The next morning, George discovers a room containing John Kinney's old scripts and awards and realizes Alice's family history just as Lillian, Isabel, and Rosie return from the girls' night with their grandmother.

As the three stay in the house, they all become an important part of Alice's routine, as she develops a potential romantic interest in Harry while Teddy helps her set up a website for her business.

The three young men also meet with Justin Miller, a director interested in funding their project despite his past work focusing on horror movies.

Harry has a meeting with Miller about further funding opportunities that run over, prompting Alice to call off their potential romantic relationship the following morning.

Depressed when she realises that her first potential client has basically been treating her more like general hired help without taking any of her design suggestions seriously, Alice is further thrown when Austen unexpectedly arrives in Los Angeles, claiming that he is uncomfortable about having three strangers living with his family.

When Harry learns that Teddy and George have been pursuing independent projects, he becomes bitter at the belief that they have no faith in his own work, prompting him to leave the house.

But when the meeting overruns and the client expresses ideas that are not in line with their vision of the film, Harry cuts it short so that they can get to the play, just making it in time for the start.

[13] Jon Frosch of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a female-driven comedy so thoroughly sanitized that it's essentially wiped of personality.

She gave the film 3/4 stars, writing, "This world doesn't quite exist, but it's an exceedingly pleasant place to escape to for a couple of hours.