It's 1960's Massachusetts. Eileen Dunlop (Thomasin McKenzie) is a 24 year old stuck in her life. She works in a dead-end job in a boy's prison. She cares for her drunken former cop father Jim Dunlop (Shea Whigham) after coming home to care for her beloved dying mother. She is suddenly taken with new prison psychiatrist Rebecca Saint John (Anne Hathaway).
I figured that Eileen could kill her father or she could do a lesbian affair with Rebecca or both. The plot takes a surprise turn and the characters are not thinking through their actions. They are not making sense and they are letting their emotions lead. Their unreasonableness does eventually overtake my hesitation. I almost enjoy their recklessness and lack of foresight. It's the opposite of the perfect crime. I do like all three actors. I especially like the troubled father and daughter relationship. This is a fine psychological drama although I would like the ladies to be smarter in the last act.
I figured that Eileen could kill her father or she could do a lesbian affair with Rebecca or both. The plot takes a surprise turn and the characters are not thinking through their actions. They are not making sense and they are letting their emotions lead. Their unreasonableness does eventually overtake my hesitation. I almost enjoy their recklessness and lack of foresight. It's the opposite of the perfect crime. I do like all three actors. I especially like the troubled father and daughter relationship. This is a fine psychological drama although I would like the ladies to be smarter in the last act.