A crooked legal guardian who drains the savings of her elderly wards meets her match when a woman she tries to swindle turns out to be more than she first appears.A crooked legal guardian who drains the savings of her elderly wards meets her match when a woman she tries to swindle turns out to be more than she first appears.A crooked legal guardian who drains the savings of her elderly wards meets her match when a woman she tries to swindle turns out to be more than she first appears.
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- TriviaWhen Marla Grayson is on the phone with Sam Rice, he asks her if she has heard of the Milgram experiment, which references a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram where subjects obeyed authority figures (i.e. giving electric shocks to people) regardless of possible consequences.
- GoofsMarla is drugged and filled up with alcohol before being put into a staged car accident. Despite being made unconscious by the alcohol a few minutes earlier, she succeeds in escaping a sunken car, and then swimming out and walking to a shop where she only gives an indication of being cold.
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[first lines]
Marla Grayson: [narrating] Look at you. Sitting there. You think you're good people. You're not good people. Trust me, there's no such think as good people.
Marla Grayson: I used to be like you. Thinking that working hard and playing fair would lead to success, and happiness. It doesn't. Playing fair is a joke invented by rich people to keep the rest of us poor. And I've been poor. It doesn't agree with me. Cuz there's two types of people in the world: the people who take, and those gettin' took. Predators and prey. Lions and lambs.
Marla Grayson: My name is Marla Grayson, and I'm not a lamb. I am a fucking lioness!
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Written by Graham Cassie, Simon Harper, David Harper, Richard Fearless (as Richard Maguire), Daniel Whittock, John Yorke, Tim Holmes & Dot Allison (as Dorothy Allison)
Published by Deconstruction Songs Ltd. obo Complete Music Ltd, Warner Chappell Music Ltd (PRS), all rights on behalf of Warner Chappell Music Ltd administered by WC Music Corp and Air Edel Associates Ltd
Performed by Death In Vegas
Licensed courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
I think the biggest issue is that lead character. I think the writer was trying to create a anti-hero character that was so fabulous and like cold that everyone would love her, someone like Miranda Priestly from Devil Wears Prada or Chanel from Scream Queens. Someone who is a bad person but is so fabulous that you kind of forgive them. And this character just wasn't that. She wasn't cutting enough like the previously mentioned characters, that isn't the fault of the actor, it is the writing and filmmaking. The thing that both the things i mentioned have that this movie lacks is Camp. They are both dripping in camp and that is what makes them work. This movie doesn't have that. It doesn't have them campy lines that make you laugh and stick in your head. I think this movie would have been improved so much if it just had that sort of cheekiness and really sharp cutting one liners.
Because the character isn't strong enough or likeable enough it makes you disconnect with her. She does horrible things to these poor old people. That single line there is her whole character. We know nothing about her and we don't really learn anything more than that. This make it incredibly hard to sympathise with her when the one thing we know is she is awful. She is incredibly one dimensional.
I also think the pacing if pretty bad. It got to a point in the movie that seemed like the climax then i checked and it still had 40 unites left.
It doesn't look too bad so that is one positive. I think i didn't like that it devolved into such a played out thriller trapping.
I actually think that there is a great idea in here, however i think that it should be flipped. I think that it would make a better movie if we followed the story of someone who had been conned by this woman or maybe a family member trying to save their parent and the villain of the story was the woman who is taking advantage of these people. I think that would have been much better and clearer.
I think you could probably skip it.
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- Feb 22, 2021
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- يحسبونني أبالي
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- $14,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $1,351,662
- Runtime1 hour 58 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1