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79% Tomatometer 234 Reviews 36% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings Poised with sharklike self-assurance, Marla Grayson (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she seizes and cunningly bilks through dubious but legal means. It's a well-oiled racket that Marla and her business-partner and lover Fran (Eiza González) use with brutal efficiency on their latest "cherry," Jennifer Peterson (two-time Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest) -- a wealthy retiree with no living heirs or family. But when their mark turns out to have an equally shady secret of her own and connections to a volatile gangster (Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage), Marla is forced to level up in a game only predators can play -- one that's neither fair, nor square. Read More Read Less Watch on Netflix Stream Now

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A searing swipe at late-stage capitalism, I Care A Lot is an exhilarating pitch black comedy with a wicked performance from Rosamund Pike.

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Rosamund Pike and Peter Dinklage do good work, but they're acting in a dark and ugly story that doesn't give the audience anyone to root for.

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I Care a Lot | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Elamin Abdelmahmoud BuzzFeed News If the film itself doesn't care to deliver on its own promise, it's hard to imagine why we should care at all. Dec 17, 2021 Full Review I Care a Lot | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Guy Lodge Film of the Week Filmmaking this perversely amoral is never going to be a crowdpleaser, and early responses have been aggressively divided, but I Care a Lot isn't out to be liked: like the best con artists, it gets you caught up in its strut. Mar 23, 2021 Full Review I Care a Lot | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Hannah Giorgis The Atlantic Though the film's final scene suggests a clear judgment of Marla's ethics, much of the preceding dialogue sets her up as the badass boss babe. Mar 2, 2021 Full Review I Care a Lot | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Jillian Chilingerian Offscreen With Jillian I Care A Lot gives us a reality check we haven't had in a while that will leave us wondering: who are the Marlas of the world? Aug 22, 2023 Full Review I Care a Lot | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Elissa Suh Moviepudding Cinematically frustrating... Aug 21, 2023 Full Review I Care a Lot | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Zach Pope Zach Pope Reviews I CARE A LOT IS AWESOME Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jeff M Absolute garbage. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/08/24 Full Review Tomasz B Never wrote a review, created an account for this one. Don't waste your time with this comple bullsh*t story filled with fantasy. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/07/24 Full Review Audience Member This is an absolutely disturbing movie. I really don't know why it was made. The whole time I was waiting for the main character to die a painful death. Zero entertaining value. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/06/24 Full Review Kim P Dianne Weist was great and Pike was very good but, coming from a family with many members in law enforcement, they gave up after an hour of jeering and hooting at how unrealistic the characters' behavior was. Without giving away too much of the plot, if you've taken ANYTHING from a criminal, much less what was taken from the gang boss, they will burn and sever parts of you and/or leverage the life of your loved ones. They don't try to KILL you without at least TRYING to recover what was taken. They can always kill you later. I can buy into "warrior nuns" and 5'2" "female assassins" that shake off punches from 325lb behemoths but I can't buy into mob bodyguards letting someone walk up quickly, invade their personal space and turn their head when the stranger gestures towards an elevator that the mob guy already knew was there. Too dumb to be enjoyable. Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/04/24 Full Review Thomas K The plot itself was an interesting concept but I think its execution was poorly done. The cast does a good job acting but the movie starts to go off the rails halfway through. For being a mafia boss you would expect peter dinklage to be ruthless and relentless but he instead was timid, and his crew of gangsters incompetent. The plot could have ended many ways and i think ultimately they chose the least satisfying conclusion for the audience and left a lot to be desired. Rated 2.5/5 Stars • Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/20/24 Full Review Matt J This is really well written and Pike, Wiest and Dinklage are all stellar in their performances. The huge problem this film has is that its motivating factor is to deliver a moral message on late stage capitalism in the final 10 minutes, and it does so with no pay off for the audience. there is no one to root for, there's no arc to really complete. ultimately the writers failed to find a way of making the film something you want to come back to Rated 2.5/5 Stars • Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/15/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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J Blakeson Director Rosamund Pike Marla Grayson Peter Dinklage Roman Lunyov Eiza González Fran Dianne Wiest Jennifer Peterson Chris Messina Dean Ericson
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Synopsis Poised with sharklike self-assurance, Marla Grayson (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she seizes and cunningly bilks through dubious but legal means. It's a well-oiled racket that Marla and her business-partner and lover Fran (Eiza González) use with brutal efficiency on their latest "cherry," Jennifer Peterson (two-time Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest) -- a wealthy retiree with no living heirs or family. But when their mark turns out to have an equally shady secret of her own and connections to a volatile gangster (Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage), Marla is forced to level up in a game only predators can play -- one that's neither fair, nor square.

Director
J Blakeson

Producer
J Blakeson, Michael Heimler, Teddy Schwarzman, Ben Stillman

Screenwriter
J Blakeson

Production Co
Black Bear Pictures, Crimple Beck

Rating
R (Some Violence|Language Throughout)

Genre
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller

Original Language
English

Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 19, 2021

Runtime
1h 58m

Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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