Director: J Blakeson
Cast: Rosamund Pike , Peter Dinklage , Eiza González , Nicholas Logan, Isiah Whitlock Jr , Chris Messina , Dianne Wiest , Macon Blair , Damian Young , Celeste Oliva , Michael Malvesti
Plot: Poised with sharklike self-assurance, Marla Grayson (Academy Award 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 Peter Dinklage), Marla is some forced to level up in a game only predators can play one that's neither fair, nor square!
My Movie Review: The movie is such a league of its own deliciously nasty indeed just love the simplistic appeal of the health care system story but hit you with a complicated beautiful mess:) I Care A Lot is a gold standard on how films should serve us with such impressive turned of events that often surprise us caught off guard most times and adds new prospective on things:) I Care A Lot is a truly disturbing horror movie that everyone needs to watch is just downright terrifying because the scam it depicts--guardian abuse--is just as look bad or worse in real life:) I Care A Lot is not based on one specific true story and Marla Grayson is not a real person well not exactly anyway very informative I learned a lot however drawn from numerous real-life guardianship scams that target the wealth or independence of few older vulnerable Americans! Rosamund Pike is phenomenal claim her throne as being a bad ass bitch not as batshit crazy as her Gone Girl character but still delivers a strong acting chops in crisis love a night river act! I Care A Lot was "almost a perfect lesbian movie", praising the "sinister glee" Pike brings to what "could've been an all-time great lesbian sex symbol" role and the "great chemistry" that she and Eiza González have as the story "keeps escalating and twisting and turning" not only does Marla's death come right when she appears to have everything she wanted, but it yanks a happy ending from her love Fran while this comeuppance might be warranted it's bittersweet!
Critics Consensus: A searing swipe at late-stage capitalism, I Care A Lot is an exhilarating pitch black comedy with a wicked performance from Rosamund Pike. 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. Filmmaking this perversely amoral is never going to be a crowd pleaser, 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. If the film itself doesn't care to deliver on its own promise, it's hard to imagine why we should care at all. Rosamund Pike is almost too effective, her delicious villainy too irresistible to completely loathe. From her sharp canary yellow suit to her fearless resolve, Marla may be problematic, but she is fabulous. The brilliance of I Care A Lot is that it illustrates how exploitation of other humans is key to so much of capitalism. I Care A Lot is a damning indictment of the corruption that pollutes the courts, healthcare, for-profit elderly care and, most of all, state-sanctioned guardianship, which strips the elderly and disabled folks of their agency. I Care A Lot could've been such a fun evil movie, but unfortunately, because it fell into the Bury Your Gays trope at the very last second, some queer women probably won't see it. The ending will most likely be divisive due to the way Pikes character. Nevertheless I Care A Lot is bit iconic film that take on risks at all the right moments!
