39/38
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Scenario
Sheryl Bradshaw, a single woman looking for a suitor on a popular 1970s TV series, chooses charming bachelor Rodney Alcala, unaware that behind the man’s gentle facade lies a deadly secret. Some of Sheryl’s unpleasant experiences as an aspiring actress mirror Anna Kendrick’s own. The comment about Sheryl’s breasts is « drawn literally from something that happened to me when I was 19. » The coins stolen from the laundry room are modern quarters.
Not from 1979 or earlier
There are 3 different Washington heads visible. These would be National Park quarters and later coins. Ed: This means our game is over.
Well, Cheryl, time to make a decision!
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I ended up being really frustrated watching this, considering the fact that I thought it had a really good hook
Ultimately, the whole thing just ends up feeling like a series of short films, only a few of which I found engaging, and when combined into one film, it just ends up being repetitive. That’s not to say it’s not effective, it’s absolutely appropriately brutal in its depiction of violence against women, but also in the way it depicts 70’s sexism. The main thing that intrigued me about this film was the idea of the game show part, which ultimately felt really underdeveloped and didn’t really contribute much to the overall narrative.
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There are some really effective sequences and the film is very nicely shot, but it’s so uneven that I couldn’t help but feel disappointed with the final product.