2020 · thriller · music
Dangerous Lies
Directed by Michael M. Scott1h 36m2020
After losing her waitressing job, Katie Franklin takes a job as a caretaker to a wealthy elderly man in his sprawling, empty Chicago estate. The two grow close, but when he unexpectedly passes away and names Katie as his sole heir, she and her husband Adam are pulled into a complex web of lies, deception, and murder. If she's going to survive, Katie will have to question everyone's motives — even the people she loves.
Our read: Dangerous Lies (2020) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · music entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme thriller / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
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- extreme
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