A Simple Favor [2018 film]

Honestly, I simply went into this with one thought, (okay, three technically, but they all connect). Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick and some supposed lesbian action. I think that I'll watch some bad movies for all three of those reasons (it's a weakness). This was most definitely not bad, it was pretty interesting actually, and half the time I had no clue what in the world was going on.

At its core it's a story about Emily and Stephanie. Emily is a rich, fasionable woman with a son, Nicky. Stephanie is a single Mom who has a vlog (do people still have vlogs?) and a son named Miles. She and Em get thrown together when their two boys become friends. They are different as differetn can be-- or are they? Once they start to become friends it show more gets even more super twisty when Emily goes missing. And then it's just a ride to the end (I will say I didn't 100% love the ending, maybe 80%, but I definitely liked how it ended compared to how it was going to end as seen in the extras).

The first thing that comes to mind when I think on this movie is the amazing chemistry between the two female leads. Blake Lively (I think that the last thing I saw her in was Private Lives of Pippa Lee), and Anna Kendrick chemistry jumped off the screen and astounded me. The second thing that came to mind was the character of Emily's clothes. Holy crap. They were amazing, blew my mind out past Pluto. Awesome (and seeing the extra about the costume choice made it even better).

It was a crazy movie and while (of course) I wish it had had more of certain things, it was a wild ride of a movie. show less

A suburban mom's mysterious new friend disappears.

4/4 (Great).

It has a cool, bright, modern sense of style that looks and feels nothing like film noir, and a protagonist who, on the surface, couldn't be further from the classic hard-boiled detective. But it has all of the elements that actually make a classic noir mystery work. It takes the bones and puts them in its own unique skin.