Review of Eileen

Eileen (2023)
6/10
Starts Good But Ends Weirdly
9 December 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I saw Eileen, starring Thomasin McKenzie-Last Night in Soho, Jojo Rabbit; Shea Whigham-Mission: Impossible_Dead Reckoning Part One, Joker; Jefferson White-Yellowstone_tv, God's Country and Anne Hathaway-Interstellar, Get Smart_2008.

I wasn't expecting too much and I wasn't disappointed. It started out alright but ended really weird. Thomasin plays a secretary at a juvenile detention center in 1960's Boston. She leads a boring life and lives with her father, Shea. Shea is a retired cop and sits around the house a lot, just drinking and swinging his service revolver around in the air-I guess to remind everyone that he used to be a cop. Jefferson plays the cop that keeps answering the call when Shea gets his gun out. Anne plays the new psychiatrist at the center and becomes friends with Thomasin. Thomasin has a lot of fantasies and day dreams-some sexual, some murderous-and starts to think that Anne may have some feelings towards her. Then, like I said, it gets weird at the end and leaves unanswered questions.

It's rated R for violence, language and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour 7 37 minutes.

It's not one that I would buy on DVD or stream. If I were you, I'd wait until it comes to cable tv.
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