‘I Care a Lot’ Review: The Art of the Steal
Toriltos and a guillotine-bled bob, revolve with icy confidence of inevitable fraud through the book “I Care a Lot”, written by Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike). His racket is guardianship: identifying powerless retirees, declaring them mentally incompetent and appointing themselves as their legal guardians.
A network of enablers – including an unscrupulous doctor and an unsuspecting judge – take Griff as Greens (Diane Wist) as Marla and her personal and business partner (Eaja Gonzalez). With a healthy nest egg and no apparent relatives, Jennifer is a “cherry”; And a chilling, all-too-believable sequence later, he is secured in an assisted living facility and much of his property is destroyed. However, Marla finds out that she has played with the wrong old lady.
An unexpectedly entertaining thriller that is cleverly written (by director, Jay Blakeson) between the comedy and horror, “I Care a Lot” and surprisingly cast. Marla is an almost cartoonist sociopath, and Pike leans into her villain with unbreakable emotion. And Wiest is sly: Watch as Jennifer, intoxicated and laughing, gives her an unexpected curse in her agony before putting her in a headlock. But it is the introduction of an inept Russian gangster (Peter Dinklage, all cool wit and wounded-puppy eyes) who gives Marla a worthy foil and the plot a climax.
With its ice-pick dialogue and hilariously ironic title, “I Care a Lot” is a clever, savory prank with scandal in the real world (“Dirty Money” counts as an episode of the Netflix series) is. A long, somewhat mellow middle section made me fear that Blakeson was losing his nerve. I was wrong.
I care a lot
Applied RR for hitting, abusing and abusing. Running Time: 1 hour 58 minutes. Watch on netflix.
