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I Care a Lot

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Poised with sharklike self-assurance, Marla Grayson (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she seizes and cunningly bilks through dubious but legal means. It's a well-oiled racket that Marla and her business-partner and lover Fran (Eiza González) use with brutal efficiency on their latest "cherry," Jennifer Peterson (two-time Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest) -- a wealthy retiree with no living heirs or family. But when their mark turns out to have an equally shady secret of her own and connections to a volatile gangster (Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage), Marla is forced to level up in a game only predators can play -- one that's neither fair, nor square.
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A searing swipe at late-stage capitalism, I Care A Lot is an exhilarating pitch black comedy with a wicked performance from Rosamund Pike.

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Rosamund Pike and Peter Dinklage do good work, but they're acting in a dark and ugly story that doesn't give the audience anyone to root for.

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Christina Newland iNews.co.uk It is refreshingly pungent, and as the engine of a crime plot with some truly outrageous twists, Pike gives an outstandingly nasty performance worthy of major attention. Rated: 4/5 Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Elamin Abdelmahmoud BuzzFeed News If the film itself doesn't care to deliver on its own promise, it's hard to imagine why we should care at all. Dec 17, 2021 Full Review Guy Lodge Film of the Week Filmmaking this perversely amoral is never going to be a crowdpleaser, and early responses have been aggressively divided, but I Care a Lot isn't out to be liked: like the best con artists, it gets you caught up in its strut. Mar 23, 2021 Full Review Jillian Chilingerian Offscreen With Jillian I Care A Lot gives us a reality check we haven't had in a while that will leave us wondering: who are the Marlas of the world? Aug 22, 2023 Full Review Elissa Suh Moviepudding Cinematically frustrating... Aug 21, 2023 Full Review Zach Pope Zach Pope Reviews I CARE A LOT IS AWESOME Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Kain 7 Ok, were do I start from???? This film baits you in with something serious like the problem of Guardianships in America (land of the Free... whatever) and then it turns into something else. At the start of the film, after what we see, anybody right of mind and with some level of moral, would love to see Marla die or suffer for what she does and she is. Then, at end of the film, after this ridiculous plot development, you still want her to die and finally justice is served. That, and I mean seriously, that was THE ONLY GOOD PART OF THIS RIDICULUOS DEBACLE. Let's see: an inept judge who drinks anything that Marla would show him, next a mobster who has moral complication with torture than he has with using people as mules, his henchmen who are literally two different portrays of the gang of the Three Stooges, two women who, according to the Law of physics, should have been dead 20 minutes before the end of the film (once she ends up in the lake she manages to get out of the car, breaking out, I meant... how about water pressure? how about the windscreen that looked like papier-mâché? how about the a- synchronicity where she has all the time to return home after she walks out to a town, buys some new clothes, wait for a new taxi, then returns... best case scenario one hour has gone and her "friend" is still alive in the house after she was beaten and left for dead with the gas-tap on??? A mobster who is completely unable to clear out those two jokes of women that the scenographer want us to believe them to be some badass? (I mean, they go and kidnap the boss!!???? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH) I mean, who wrote this piece of crap???? Please change jobs. You will do everyone a favour! Absolutely ridiculous. I felt sorry for two of my favorite actors who ended playing this parts in this mockery of a film. Nearly 2 hours of my life lost! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/21/25 Full Review Brisma G Complete waste of time. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/19/25 Full Review Audience Member Worst ending of a movie I've ever seen. It's just not plausible. Very disappointing. There are so many ways this could have ended in a cool twist. Did the writer just give up? Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/18/25 Full Review Peter K The premise behind this production is chilling: the movie itself had great character actors but the plot was disappointing. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/15/25 Full Review Audience Member This is the worst movies I’ve ever watched. If I could give a zero star I would. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/13/25 Full Review Lisa B How the idiotic so called critics gave this 79 percent is beyond me, they must all be out to lunch. This is THE WORST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN. They actually expect us to root for the protagonist who is a monster in a girl power plot where she kidnaps the elderly imprisons them and steals from them? Bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME BC IT WILL ONLY frustrate & infuriate you. Why is there no zero stars option. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/10/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Poised with sharklike self-assurance, Marla Grayson (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she seizes and cunningly bilks through dubious but legal means. It's a well-oiled racket that Marla and her business-partner and lover Fran (Eiza González) use with brutal efficiency on their latest "cherry," Jennifer Peterson (two-time Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest) -- a wealthy retiree with no living heirs or family. But when their mark turns out to have an equally shady secret of her own and connections to a volatile gangster (Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage), Marla is forced to level up in a game only predators can play -- one that's neither fair, nor square.
Director
J Blakeson
Producer
J Blakeson, Michael Heimler, Teddy Schwarzman, Ben Stillman
Screenwriter
J Blakeson
Production Co
Black Bear Pictures, Crimple Beck
Rating
R (Some Violence|Language Throughout)
Genre
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 19, 2021
Runtime
1h 58m
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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