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After her husband abruptly asks for a divorce, a middle-aged mother returns to college in order to complete her degree.
It’s every college student’s worst nightmare, your mom decides to go back to college to finish her degree and it’s your senior year…at the same college! That’s the hilarious situation in “Life of the Party!”
Middle-aged mom, Deanna (Melissa McCarthy) finds herself in a challenging place. Her husband of over 20 years, Dan (Matt Walsh) has fallen in love with the town’s fiercest realtor, Marcie (Julie Bowen) and drops a bombshell on Deanna after the start of their daughter’s senior year of college. He wants a divorce. Saddened and shocked by the news, Deanna decides the only way to take back her life is to return to Decatur University and complete her degree in Archaeology.
Deanna opts for the full college experience by sharing a dorm room, shopping at the campus bookstore, and of course going to frat parties with her daughter, Maddie (Molly Gordon). At the first party, Maddie gives a 10-minute bathroom makeover to her suburban housewife of a mother and she is now literally, the life of the party. She meets campus hunk, Jack (Luke Benward) and begins a romantic relationship who turns out to be the son of none other than, Marcie, her ex-husband’s new flame.
Rediscovering her passions and coping with being divorced, Deanna befriends all the girls at her daughter’s sorority house and has several hysterical conversations with BFF, Christine (Maya Rudolph). In the end, Deanna and Maddie both graduate college and are closer than ever before.
Although there are multiple unrealistic situations in this film, it’s a silly and fun way to spend an evening with girlfriends or a date night. Melissa McCarthy is her comedic self and you just can’t help but laugh out loud at the predicaments she finds herself in.
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