Her new film stars Maisy Stella as an 18-year-old who comes face to face with her older self — played by Aubrey Plaza

That’s the charm and superficiality of writer-director Megan Park’s comedy, a frisky festival favorite (it premiered at Sundance earlier this year) that’s less than the sum of its parts but in a way you may not mind. Perhaps the worst thing that can be said is the movie represents a criminal underuse of Aubrey Plaza.

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The Amazon MGM Studios film follows Elliott (Maisy Stella) who is visited by her older self (Aubrey Plaza) during a mushroom trip

Megan Park knows it’s hard to create a perfect coming-of-age film—from both in front of and behind the camera. The Canadian filmmaker, 38, was among the ensemble on the classic ABC Family teen soap The Secret Life of the American Teenager for over 100 episodes,

Maisy Stella hadn’t heard the word “action” in years. The 20-year-old actor grew up on the set of the ABC drama “Nashville,” in which she and her older sister, Lennon, played the daughters of Connie Britton’s country music superstar.