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Glossy satire isn’t half bad but it’s as realistic as a Tom and Jerry cartoon – Sydney Morning Herald
This daring black comedy encourages us to side with an unusually heartless heroine with mixed results.
If this sounds like the sort of thing Cruella de Vil would get into when not kidnapping puppies, youre on the mark. Conceived by the British writer-director J. Blakeson (The Disappearance of AliceCreed) as a satire on American capitalism, I Care A Lot is glossy, full of stylised dialogue and about as realistically plotted as a Tom and Jerry cartoon, complete with murder attempts that leave few or no visible scars.
The hijinks begin when Marla and Fran zero in on their next target, the harmless looking…
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