PREVIEW: Don’t Worry Darling (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth), Harry Styles (Dunkirk), Olivia Wilde (Richard Jewell), Gemma Chan (Eternals), KiKi Layne (If Beale Street Could Talk), Nick Kroll (Operation Finale), Chris Pine (Hell or High Water), Sydney Chandler (The Golden Rut), Kate Berlant (Sorry to Bother You), Asif Ali (Benjamin Troubles), Douglas Smith (The Bye Bye Man), Timothy Simons (Inherent Vice), Ari’el Stachel (Zola)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Olivia Wilde (Booksmart), director, producer; Katie Silberman (Isn’t It Romantic), writer, producer; Carey Van Dyke (Chernobyl Diaries) and Shane Van Dyke (The Silence), writers; Roy Lee (It) and Miri Yoon (Behaving Badly), producers; John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon), composer; Matthew Libatique (Black Swan), cinematographer; Affonso Gonçalves (Carol), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Alice (Pugh) lives with her husband Jack (Styles) in the pleasant 1950s suburban company town of Victory, where the men work for the top-secret Victory Project while their partners stay home and play housekeeper. However, cracks soon start to show in the seemingly idyllic utopian community, which causes Alice to begin questioning everything she thinks she knows…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Olivia Wilde’s second film as director is an ambitious thriller with a sharp social commentary – but let’s be honest, you just want to watch Harry Styles get freaky with Florence Pugh, aren’t you?

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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