A rather silly story (from 'Gone Girl' author Gillian Flynn) - a mother pays to have herself rubbed out by a hit man?? - which is somehow mesmerizing, I guess attributable to Charlize Theron's performance and Paquet-Brenner's direction. Great cast though includes Chloe Grace Moretz, Tye Sheridan, Nicholas Hoult (brilliant accent), Christina Hendricks, Corey Stoll, Sean Bridgers, Drea de Matteo.
Seriously well photographed by Barry Aykroyd in Panavision. And with Douglas Crise and Billy Fox editing.
Paquet-Brenner has co-written (with Julian Fellowes) and directed the Agatha Christie story
Crooked House.
This references the little girl Fanny Adams, who was murdered horribly in 1867 by a solicitor's clerk, and who was immortalised in the expression 'Sweet Fanny Adams'.
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