The film stars Julia Roberts as Alma, a Yale philosophy professor on the verge of tenure after an unspecified break from academia. At a cocktail party at the home she shares with her psychotherapist husband, Frederik, we meet her brash friend and colleague Hank, played by Andrew Garfield, and her protégée, Maggie, played by Ayo Edebiri.
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