I Care a Lot

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I Care a Lot

R

2020

1h 58m

Comedy

Mystery & Thriller

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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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Critics Consensus

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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Audience Says

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

09/23/2024

4/5

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.

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Elamin Abdelmahmoud

BuzzFeed News

12/17/2021

If the film itself doesn't care to deliver on its own promise, it's hard to imagine why we should care at all.

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Guy Lodge

Film of the Week

03/23/2021

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.

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Jillian Chilingerian

Offscreen With Jillian

08/22/2023

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?

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Elissa Suh

Moviepudding (Substack)

08/21/2023

Cinematically frustrating...

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Zach Pope

Zach Pope Reviews

07/26/2023

I CARE A LOT IS AWESOME

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Jonathan T

@Jona_ts1 Mar 9

The movie has some good moments, but the ending was awful. They present to you like this huge character that could end with the problem and they make you hate the main character "Marla" but it end up in nothing.

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Andrew S

@Andrewfev Mar 7

I Care a Lot opens with a promising premise: a darkly comic thriller about greed, power, and legal exploitation. Rosamund Pike dominates as Marla Grayson, a ruthless female lead whose ambition and cunning drive the story. Yet the film often undermines itself. Marla’s characterization—an empowered woman at the center of the story—feels highlighted more as a "critics’ point" than as a fully grounded character. Combined with tonal whiplash between thriller and satire, her exploits stretch credibility and pull the audience out of the story. The script leans on every familiar thriller trope: clever antihero, convenient legal loopholes, last-minute reversals, and cartoonish criminal threats. While critics praise style and social signaling, audiences are left frustrated by implausibility and contrivance.

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Manol M

@Momf4e Feb 27

Easily the biggest bulls..t of a movie out there. No logic, no connection with anything, can’t be even a fiction. Complete waist of time. Definitely not recommended.

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nugraha a

@Bazuseto Feb 14

Disappointing ending. They want us to root for the fraudster. Might as well open an call center in India. I open this account just to write this bullshit. If I known the ending I will not watch it.

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DTL A

@AJ.DTL Feb 3

I have never hated a movie so much that I created this account on this website just to leave a 1 star. Terrible terrible terrible

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John H

@JohnEH Jan 25

Was there someone I was suppose to like in this movie? Seriously, there was not a single character in this movie who I wanted to see succeed. Watching my cat play has a better story than this. Marla and Fran were terrible, and I spent the whole movie waiting for them to reap what they deserve. I would not recommend.

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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, Netflix
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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