Go see it. It’s a date movie. It’s romantic and funny and ends well. Seattle has never looked more gorgeous. Shelton once said she would never put the Space Needle in one of her movies, and it has taken until 2014 for her to cave. The Space Needle is in this movie. So is I-90. So is Ballard. So is Dick’s. So is the Central District. So is Orcas Island. The city looks wet and rich and calm, and the whole thing was shot on location in Washington State, which is an accomplishment in itself, given the economics of shooting movies here as compared to, say, Vancouver, BC. Shelton is a master of the minor chord, the story that comes from some subtle place inside a character and ends not far from where it starts. In Laggies, the character at the center is just about the most minor-chord person Shelton has ever put on the screen, Megan (Keira Knightley), who feels like she’s floating through life, unable to connect with her own story, or family, or friends, or her lover, or anything. Megan lies to her boyfriend and tells him she’s going to a “personal development seminar” on Orcas Island and ends up hanging out with a 16-year-old, Annika (Chloë Grace Moretz), she met at a grocery store. For a whole week. When the teenager’s dad, Craig (Sam Rockwell), discovers Megan in his daughter’s bedroom, he’s like: Who the hell are you? That’s when the story really starts to pick up, and I don’t want to give any more away. by Christopher Frizzelle