Nancy

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Nancy

2018

1h 27m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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Craving connection with others, Nancy creates elaborate identities and hoaxes under pseudonyms on the internet. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing 30 years ago, fact and fiction begin to blur in Nancy's mind, and she becomes increasingly convinced these strangers are her real parents. As their bond deepens, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief - and the power of emotion threatens to overcome all rationality.

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Nancy is an uncomfortable watch, but worth the effort thanks to Andrea Riseborough's central performance -- and writer-director Christina Choe's powerful empathy for her character's dangerously misguided choices.

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Nell Minow

AWFJ.org

This haunting story of identity and the longing for family has achingly real performances, especially J. Smith-Cameron and John Leguizamo. The snowy setting in the final scenes is beautifully filmed and very fitting.

Oct 12, 2021

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

The overwhelming screen charisma of Andrea Riseborough is just about strong enough to prevent this identity drama from derailing into art house obscurity.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 12, 2018

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Good performances and interesting, though undeveloped narrative ideas in this debut feature from writer-director Christina Choe.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 11, 2018

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

The dueling tensions of the film are quite fascinating.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 24, 2022

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Cate Marquis

AWFJ.org

In Nancy, director Christina Choe spins out her intriguing yarn with careful precision, keeping us guessing about Nancy and about whether she is the long-lost daughter.

Oct 12, 2021

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MaryAnn Johanson

AWFJ.org

Kudos to Andrea Riseborough for her wonderfully ambiguous performance, which never lets us come to a definite conclusion about just how sorry for her we should feel.

Oct 12, 2021

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Tucker W

Boring and slow not suspenseful, with an awful ending. Kept waiting for something to happen, nothing ever did.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

09/29/25

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Diana S

Seemed like she was trying to humanize go-fund-me scammers, and while the story was compelling, something was missing that I can't quite put my finger on. I guess I wanted to see her career as a con artist intersect more directly with her need for connection, and I waited, but it never happened.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/21/23

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Audience Member

Seriously, who the hell films movies in 4:3 aspect ratio since like 2008?! And this movie was made in only 2018. It’s probably the ONLY thing filmed in that square view in the past five years.l, and then it switches to 16:9 randomly, for whatever reason. Seriously, why? But even worse, it’s listed as a thriller, and there’s nothing about it that makes it one. This is a DRAMA FOR LIFETIME, NOT A THRILLER IN ANY WAY! You expect that there’s going to be some conflict surprise you at some point, but instead, the movie just ends without really answering any of the questions it raised in the first place. Another one of those movies where the biggest surprise is when the credits just start to roll unexpectedly and leave you saying “WTF?!?!”

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

04/30/23

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Audience Member

Slow but thoroughly competent and well done, steadily improving as it gets closer and closer to the heart of the story. Okay... that was strange.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

Decent drama. Pretty simple, not a lot of excitement but worth a watch if you’re alone scrolling for something to get into.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/23/21

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germano n

Film ben scritto e ben interpretato, riesce a raccontare (senza cadere nel superficiale) una storia che offre molti spunti di riflessione. Alienazione, difficoltà nel comunicare, solitudine, paura di infliggere e subire delusioni, tutto ciò viene esplicitamente toccato e/o lasciato percepire con grande sensibilità nell'arco del racconto. Pochi personaggi ma sufficienti ad orchestrare una storia adatta a toccare in modo delicato corde sensibili, trasmette un senso di grande amarezza attraverso un progressivo susseguirsi di mancanze che accompagnano verso un finale che lascia lo spettatore nello stesso senso di inadeguatezza e smarrimento che avvolge la protagonista.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Craving connection with others, Nancy creates elaborate identities and hoaxes under pseudonyms on the internet. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing 30 years ago, fact and fiction begin to blur in Nancy's mind, and she becomes increasingly convinced these strangers are her real parents. As their bond deepens, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief - and the power of emotion threatens to overcome all rationality.

Director: Christina Choe
Producer: Amy Lo, Michelle Cameron, Andrea Riseborough
Screenwriter: Christina Choe
Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Production Co: Samuel Goldwyn Films, Mental Pictures, Gamechanger Films
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 8, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 9, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $80.1K
Runtime: 1h 27m

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