2013 · comedy · drama · mystery
Sexy Evil Genius
Directed by Shawn Piller1h 25m2013
A dark comedy about an eclectic group of strangers invited to a downtown bar by a mutual ex-lover, Nikki Franklyn, a maddeningly sexy, unpredictable and possibly insane young woman who's recently gotten out of prison for murdering her last ex-boyfriend. The party really gets started when Nikki herself arrives, hauling her latest lover and fiancee, the morally challenged lawyer who'd been handling her case. She's mysterious about her intentions and her current and former lovers soon realize they are all caught in one of her brilliant, mischievous mind-games with possible deadly consequences. By the night's end, revenge will be had, new romance will bloom, and Nikki will have delivered on her reputation as the Sexy Evil Genius.
Our read: Sexy Evil Genius (2013) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- cold
- intimate
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