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Run Sweetheart Run

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Initially apprehensive when her boss insists she meet with one of his most important clients, single mom Cherie (Ella Balinska) is relieved and excited when she meets charismatic Ethan (Pilou Asbæk). The influential businessman defies expectations and sweeps Cherie off her feet. But at the end of the night, when the two are alone together, he reveals his true, violent nature. Battered and terrified, she flees for her life, beginning a relentless game of cat-and-mouse with a bloodthirsty assailant hell-bent on her utter destruction. In this edge-of-your-seat dark thriller, Cherie finds herself in the crosshairs of a conspiracy stranger and more evil than she could have ever imagined.
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Run Sweetheart Run's heavy-handedness blunts the effectiveness of its message, but this remains a wily, unpredictable thriller.

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Noel Murray Los Angeles Times Feste handles the action and horror in “Run Sweetheart Run” well; and for those who can handle its more preposterous twists there are trashy pulp kicks to be had here. Oct 29, 2022 Full Review Brian Tallerico RogerEbert.com Feste’s overall ambition and craftsmanship, along with a fantastic central performance from Ella Balinska, hold things together even over the film’s rocky patches. Rated: 2.5/4 Oct 28, 2022 Full Review Matt Schimkowitz AV Club Run Sweetheart Run comes from a well-observed point of view that roughly 50% of the world’s population shares. But its singular focus is shortsighted, holding the movie back from delivering effective scares. Rated: C+ Oct 27, 2022 Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Downright intense survival horror film with a lot of malice projected toward not just predators, but the society that nurtures the predators. Oct 20, 2023 Full Review Nuha Hassan Nuha Hassan (Medium) It’s an overambitious film that attempts to take the leap with its critical ideas of how society treats women. Sep 8, 2023 Full Review Nicholas Bell Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Run Sweetheart Run is often more visually arresting than its consistently diminishing narrative, leading inevitably to the finish line of daybreak and the femme dom justice which the film wouldn’t have dared to exclude. Rated: 2.5/5 Jul 27, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Regina W There is no ending of horror slash thrillers where the plot is basically, girl meets boy, and girl must then run to survive the night. I'd have to fully understand this movie to even consider rating it for real. Plot twist was just horrible. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/03/24 Full Review Waniya S UHMM... The movie was creepy but not for the right reasons and seriously my only question is WHY!? Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/03/24 Full Review Audience Member Another film fetishizing female pain and trying to present the resulting violence as "empowerment". The plot twist was ridiculous and something I'd expect to be pulled out of a hat. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/01/24 Full Review Daniel F Starting off as a drama about a young single mother negotiating through a patriarchal society of oppression, harassment and casual sexual assault, the film switches to a Carpenter style slasher, but this Michael Myers has game. With a few fourth wall breaks almost mocking the learning voyeurism associated with stalk and slash type movies, it drops all subtlety in the final act and, especially after holding back on showing off the threat in favour of unseen terror throughout- even making a point of doing so, perhaps explains itself a bit too much in some quick exposition (sometimes, less is more- as the film itself proved up to this point), and while the jarring shift isn't as effective as say, Dusk til Dawn, it's still delightfully barmy enough to entertain and yet somehow, in all its absurdity, only a slight exaggeration of relatable and comparable real life experience (except the bit explaining everything). To take one thing away though, is that you should never trust a man who doesn't like dogs. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 09/27/23 Full Review Adam S Dogshit move that pushes agenda… I don't support misogyny but this is too much the other way around. The move is hard to watch, it lacks any deeper meaning or interesting story. The main character's behaviors lack any sense and logic. To be honest if you watch first 20 minutes watching rest is just waste of time, everything repeats over and over again, until it ends very predictably. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/20/23 Full Review flom m An ok movie with some not too subtile inspiration from funny games, and not quite subtile feminist advocacy. It goes to the shitter with the most uninspired last 15 minutes I had to suffer in my life. In case the audience were too dumb to understand the feminist stance, rather than writting a movie ending, they switch to a "man bad, woman good" stance, completely out of character and story, that leaves you dumbstruck with that question " but why, why did you felt the need to waste what was a good movie until now?" Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 08/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Initially apprehensive when her boss insists she meet with one of his most important clients, single mom Cherie (Ella Balinska) is relieved and excited when she meets charismatic Ethan (Pilou Asbæk). The influential businessman defies expectations and sweeps Cherie off her feet. But at the end of the night, when the two are alone together, he reveals his true, violent nature. Battered and terrified, she flees for her life, beginning a relentless game of cat-and-mouse with a bloodthirsty assailant hell-bent on her utter destruction. In this edge-of-your-seat dark thriller, Cherie finds herself in the crosshairs of a conspiracy stranger and more evil than she could have ever imagined.
Director
Shana Feste
Producer
Shana Feste, Effie Brown, Jason Blum, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones
Screenwriter
Shana Feste, Keith Josef Adkins, Kellee Terrell
Production Co
Quiet Girl Productions, Automatik Entertainment, Gamechanger Films, Blumhouse Productions, Stuck On On
Rating
R (Horror Violence|Brief Nudity|Bloody Images|Language|Some Sexual References)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 28, 2022
Runtime
1h 43m
Aspect Ratio
Digital 2.39:1
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