No Hard Feelings is a fun movie. The best thing it has going for it is Jennifer Lawrence. She’s a great actress. She has charisma. And she’s funny.

Maddie (Lawrence) is a bartender who is also an Uber driver in Montauk, Long Island. She gets her car towed for failing to pay her rapidly growing property taxes. Hard to be an Uber driver without a car. 

A friend shows her a Craigslist ad posted by a wealthy couple who want to hire someone to initiate their sheltered teenage son into the ways of sex before he heads off to college. The couple (Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti) offer Maddie an old Buick if she’ll introduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman) to her womanly charms. But she, of course, cannot let him know that she is working for mom and dad.

Even though she’s a bit older than what the parents are looking for, she agrees to give it a shot. There’s some irony in the fact that the influx of rich folks (like Percy’s folks) has pushed up the property taxes for longtime locals like Maddie who is trying to hang on to the home her mother left her.

Not only is Lawrence terrific in the movie, so is Feldman as the nerdy neophyte. She first encounters him at the pet rescue place where he works. Her pretense is that she wants to adopt a dog. As he takes down her information, she flirts shamelessly. When they meet at a bar, he’s super nervous and surprised that Long Island Ice Tea is a boozy blend.

Among the film’s key scenes is a nocturnal trip to a closed beach for skinny dipping. When a trio of locals tries to make off with their clothes, Maddie rushes out of the water to fight them off and reclaim her and Percy’s duds. Yes, there’s graphic nudity. But it’s more funny than sexy. (It appears that the naked hardbody is Lawrence’s and not a body double but in these days of amazing post production technique, who knows?) In any case, the scene has already generated significant conversation.

Another key scene has Maddie chasing down Percy a party full of recent high grads at a mansion.  She’s stunned when she opens upstairs bedroom doors in the home only to find the teens… looking at their phones.

So do Maddie and Percy ever actually hook up? Well… Let’s just say the film has a happy ending for pretty much all concerned.

Jennifer Lawrence is not exactly America’s Sweetheart like Julia Roberts was for a few years there, but she has a likability and good looks and talent that have made her a favorite. At age 32 she has compiled a resumé that includes Hunger Games and X-Men films plus three excellent performances for director David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle and Joy). So almost any Jennifer Lawrence movie is one that you should take notice of. The fact that No Hard Feelings is a solid, entertaining production makes it even more worthy of your attention.

Rated R. Directed by Gene Stupnitsky.