Long Shot

“Unlikely but not impossible.”

Why would the Secretary of State, a woman with a presidential run to plan, hire a rumpled journalist who still remembers her as his old babysitter? Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron) brings Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen) on as her speechwriter, and her advisers want him gone before he has his first draft. Jonathan Levine directs it with an easy, open-handed warmth, letting the two leads trade jokes and glances in the same room.