Does the title refer to contraception? Or one of this sort-of comedy’s three leads? It’s a toss-up; everyone involved is just so irritating. Like the lovely indie “Weekend,” this small-scale story focuses on a couple of days in a possibly blossoming romance. Unlike that movie, it’s full of gender stereotypes and all-around bad behavior. There’s no one here to root for.
Neurotic Fred (Noah Bean) wakes up uneasy after first-date sex with clingy, slightly crazy Mindy (Rachel Boston), who tricked him into not using a condom. Time for Plan B, thinks Fred, but not so fast: Mindy is Catholic and thinks the morning-after pill is wrong.
After cajoling her into ingesting the first half of the medication anyway, he sticks around, mainly to convince her to take the second dose 12 hours later — and sporadically ducks out to check on his live-in control-freak girlfriend (Anna Chlumsky). For a film taking on an unexplored and potentially interesting subject,“The Pill” is pretty hard to swallow.