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A Simple Favor
Directed by
Paul Feig
R
2018
1h 57m
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6.7
84%
72%
6.6
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Stephanie, a single mother with a parenting vlog, befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school as Stephanie's. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.
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Cast of A Simple Favor
Anna Kendrick
Stephanie Smothers
Blake Lively
Emily Nelson
Henry Golding
Sean Townsend
Rupert Friend
Dennis Nylon
Linda Cardellini
Diana Hyland
Bashir Salahuddin
Detective Summervile
Danielle Bourgon
Grace, Stephanie's Mom
Kelly McCormack
Stacy
Andrew Rannells
Darren
Ian Ho
Nicky Nelson
Joshua Satine
Miles Smothers
Paul Jurewicz
Bobby Chelkowsky
Roger Dunn
Bruce Hargrave
Dustin Milligan
Chris
Eric Johnson
Davis
Jason Oliveira
Diego
Patti Harrison
Kiko
Ava LaFramboise
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Jean Smart
Margaret McLanden
Sarah Baker
Maryanne Chelkowsky
A Simple Favor Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Imagine an ABC sitcom based on David Fincher's Gone Girl, and you'll get an idea of what this lightweight comic mystery is like.
The New Republic
Jo Livingstone
A deeply confused movie that feels like a mash-up of Mean Girls and an episode of Law and Order.
Observer
Oliver Jones
With its saucy French pop music and pastel Saul Bass-inspired credits, this film is so hungry to seem like a classic thriller that you come away charmed by its pure-hearted ambition.
Autostraddle
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
It's a Mommi murder mystery that knows exactly how ridiculous is, the whole cast in on the joke.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Until an ending that flies ruinously off the rails, Paul Feig's bouncy comedy-thriller brings out the scrappy best in Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively and offers an unexpected take on the twists and turns of female friendship.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The performances by Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively are so invigorating, so generous with pointed inflections and snappy gestures, that they fill the movie's good-humored, amply plotted emptiness.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
Director Paul Feig doesn't seem able to decide whether he's making a slightly outré crime comedy, a blithely twisted relationship thriller, a brightly lit horror melodrama, or maybe an arch meta-take on all three.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
[Paul Fieg] brings an elegant old Hollywood gravitas to the proceedings while never undercutting the more playfully juvenile elements that make the film so much fun.
Consequence
Allison Shoemaker
The gradual transformations they both undertake play out in their wardrobes, which the characters treat as costumes, as armor, and as commentary.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Emily Yoshida
A Simple Favor seems to yearn for a bygone era of nail-biter, but rather than wallow in pastiche, it comes up with something truly contemporary feeling.
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
What a relief to watch a film unafraid of letting its hair down.
Culturess
Kristen Lopez
A grim, wickedly fun time at the movies... Raise your martinis for A Simple Favor.
Baltimore Magazine
Max Weiss
For Lively, this is her Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct moment: She stomps through the film like a femme fatale warrior-so gorgeous and mysterious and alluring, it was like she was constructed in a lab to the play this part.
Associated Press
Jake Coyle
An often lighthearted, sometimes creepy journey through the female stereotypes of the genre, with Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively as guides who both delight in and subvert traditional noir archetypes.
Los Angeles Times
Katie Walsh
As bright and bracing as an ice-cold gin martini with a lemon twist, and just as satisfying.
Slate
Inkoo Kang
A Simple Favor reintroduces Lively as a character actress-a sexy, funny, award-worthy revelation.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
Kendrick is an equally improbable detective, but her fidgety energy has rarely been put to better ends. She has the wit and whimsy of a younger Steve Martin.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Sly and sweet with an acid finish, "A Simple Favor" is a female-friendship comedy with neo-noir ambitions.
Washington Post
Sonia Rao
Ice cold and finished off with a dramatic twist, "A Simple Favor" has a lot in common with the gin martinis that its lead characters drink throughout the film.
TIME Magazine
Louis Virtel
It all makes for one of the more twisted, circuitous and silly capers in recent memory.
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Henry Golding On Paul Feig Directing And The Genre
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Jessie Henderson On This Film Being A Unique Genre
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Anna Kendrick On The Thriller/Comedy Genre Of The Film
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