Plot[edit]

Imogene Duncan (Kristen Wiig) was once a promising playwright who now works in a low-paying
magazine job in New York City. After her affluent boyfriend leaves her and she is fired from her
magazine gig, she stages a suicide attempt in an effort to get her ex's attention and is
accidentally discovered by her friend Dara. Held in the hospital on a 5150 (involuntary psychiatric
hold), she is eventually released into her estranged mother's (Annette Bening) care where she is
taken to her childhood home in New Jersey.
Shortly after returning she hears a conversation between her mother and her new boyfriend,
George Bousche, and learns that her father never died, but instead left the family to pursue
a PhD. After learning that her father wrote a book, she goes to the local library and steals it. She
discovers from the back cover that he lives in New York City and convinces her mother's
boarder, Lee (Darren Criss), to take her there, but is forced to return after she is barred access
from her apartment and her friend, Dara, refuses to let her stay in her home.
To pay Lee back for driving her to the city, Imogene goes to see him perform in his Backstreet
Boys tribute band. Afterwards they talk about Imogene's failed career as a playwright. Years ago,
after she won a prestigious grant, Imogene failed to write an actual play and now believes she
cannot write. Lee accidentally discovered her old plays while living in her room and believes she
is talented and should attempt to write again. They sleep together and the following morning she,
Lee and her brother, Ralph, head back to the city to go to Dara's book launch party.
The launch goes poorly as no one is particularly happy to see her. Her brother Ralph is nearly
arrested and is brought to the party by the police. After they leave the party, Ralph takes them to
their father's house where Ralph reveals that he knew his father was alive the entire time.
Imogene and Ralph have dinner with their wealthy father and his new wife where he expresses
no regret over his decision to leave them. After their father offers Imogene money to help fix her
life she leaves him and returns home to her mother. After Imogene and her mother discuss her
father an assassin arrives looking for Bousche and threatens to kill the family. He is prevented
from doing so by Imogene, who dons her brother's human exo-skeleton suit and attacks him.