Promising Young Woman

2020

About this movie

From groundbreaking writer-director Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve) comes a delicious, thrilling and wildly entertaining new take on revenge. Everyone said Cassandra Thomas (Academy Award®-nominee Carey Mulligan) was a promising young woman ... until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. Now, she's a medical school dropout trapped in stasis. Blonde, beautiful and blessed with a killer intellect, Cassie's not interested in climbing the corporate ladder or marrying Mr. Right. Instead, she's seemingly content to while away her days making lattes with her coffee shop colleague Gail (Laverne Cox), much to the profound disappointment and deep concern of her parents (Jennifer Coolidge, Clancy Brown). All they want is for their almost 30-year-old daughter to move on with her life, and to move out of their house. By night, Cassie performs a ritual of her own invention. Going to bars and dance clubs alone in the wee hours, she pretends to be dangerously intoxicated, helpless to defend herself from anyone who might wish her harm. Inevitably, there's a man who decides to make sure she gets home safely. Yet he also inevitably lets his own desires take priority over Cassie's well-being, not realizing that he's simply the latest to fall prey to Cassie's nefarious schemes--he's about to be taught a lesson he's unlikely to forget anytime soon. But whatever small satisfaction Cassie takes from her late-night rendezvous, it isn't enough to quell the storm of rage and sorrow inside her. Until one day, handsome pediatric surgeon Ryan (Bo Burnham), an acquaintance from her med school days, happens into the coffee shop and upends Cassie's cycle of destruction. As she begins to develop feelings for him, she's pulled back toward her own past and the trauma that forever changed the course of her life. Will she balance the scales and find her own kind of happy ending? Or will her mission of vengeance take an unimaginable toll? Focus Features, in association with FilmNation Entertainment, presents a Lucky Chap Production, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN. Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Connie Britton, Adam Brody, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, Max Greenfield, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chris Lowell, Sam Richardson, Molly Shannon, Clancy Brown. Producers, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara, Ben Browning and Ashley Fox. Written, produced, and directed by Emerald Fennell.

Ratings and reviews

Looks bloody and provocative. Feminist rage? Or righteous rage? Nevertheless there isn't enough rage for victims to begin with. Bring it on.

Tbh, I'm giving it 5 stars to balance out the neckbeard trolls who are rating it negatively because they're threatened by a female protagonist like this. Gotta play to their level sometimes, right?

ugly girls gone wild ... social justice warrior indulgent edition, brah