Style: Crime Drama
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston, Thora Birch, Johnny Knoxville
Working Time: 104 minutes
Synopsis: In rural and economically depressed Pikeville, Kentucky, Susan Smith (Emilia Clarke) is a younger single mother, hooked on medication and surrounded by good-for-nothing males together with abusive ex-husband Money (Johnny Knoxville). Dashing and newly-minted FBI agent Mark Putnam (Jack Huston) arrives on the town along with his spouse and youngster, keen to construct a profession fame. He makes use of Susan as an informant to nab a financial institution robber, with Susan keen to snitch on her neighborhood within the hope that Mark will present her an escape and a contemporary begin. They embark on a torrid affair with no good outcomes.
What Works Effectively: Based mostly on precise occasions, this drama advantages from a ramshackle small city milieu harbouring darkish ambitions. Susan is keen to do something to flee Pikeville, and Mark is simply as keen to position this backwater of a stepping stone behind him and transfer up in his profession. They use one another in an unstated pact of mutual manipulation. Emilia Clarke obliterates her Englishness and sinks into an epic white trash efficiency, her narration augmenting a script dripping with weary knowledge.
What Does Not Work As Effectively: Neither Susan, a drug addicted welfare cheat and homewrecker, nor Mark, an immoral exploiter, symbolize remotely sympathetic characters. Not unexpectedly, the drama flails in an unappealing morass of distasteful behaviour.
Susan (narrating): That is the way in which the satan comes. He do not come to you as evil. He do not come to you on hearth. He comes as every thing you ever wished. He involves you as you.
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