The danger of crafting a complicated heist flick is the risk that your audience won’t quite understand what’s going on. That’s the case in writer-director Stacy Cochran’s “Write When You Get Work,” a romantic comedy with a criminal bent that undertells its story and therefore oversells how smart it really is.
The film begins with an up-close-and-personal shot of teenagers rolling around in the sand, though these teens look like adults: It’s Jonny (34-year-old Finn Wittrock, “The Assassination of Gianni Versace”) and Ruth (almost 26-year-old Rachel Keller, “Legion”). Their tryst results in a child, whom we find out, when the film jumps ahead nine years, that they gave up.