Unbound from the corsets and lace that have been her accustomed dress in myriad period dramas, Keira Knightley emerges in Lynn Shelton's LAGGIES as a teenager — albeit one in the body of a 28-year-old woman.Deploying a more than acceptable American accent, the dark-haired British actress plays Megan, the type of young woman very familiar in indie filmdom — a social misfit who's at a crossroads in life, troubled in romance and career. Though she attended graduate school in psychology, Megan has been unable and unwilling to find a career other than twirling an advertising sign at roadside for her accountant dad (Jeff Garlin). Boyishly lissome in a white t-shirt and white jeans, she twirls most charmingly. We can understand why her dad loves everything she does, even while her mom nags her to get career counseling.
