Equal parts coming-of-age story and thriller involving an alleged sex criminal, Flower not only seems like a timely movie for this year, but yet another welcome work that is co-written by Matt Spicer (co-writer/director of Ingrid Goes West) and a film that also appears to be a breakout role for Zoey Deutch.
See for yourself in the trailer.
That’s right. Ingrid Goes West isn’t just playing in major U.S. cities with hip arthouse and indie theaters.
It’s got a full nationwide release starting today and playing at a theater near you.
So, you have as good of a chance as any to see Aubrey Plaza in one her best roles yet as a social media obsessed loner that’s a little too comfortable with stalking on the big screen.
Find showtimes for Ingrid Goes West here.
Ingrid Goes West really did take us by surprise, mostly because we didn’t know what to expect. We especially didn’t expect something that’s both hysterical and suspenseful falling in line somewhere between, as we’ve said before, What About Bob?, Nightcrawler, and Young Adult.
We certainly can’t remember the last time we saw a psychological thriller comedy that was worth telling people about (or even really think of one off the top of our head).
Today, it opens up in NY and LA (and will open up in theaters nationwide later this month). Please find a screening nearest to you here.
Very rarely do the worlds of comedy and psychological thriller come into each other orbits. That’s probably because they’re, in many ways, polar opposites as genres.
That being said, Ingrid Goes West not only manages to be a darkly hysterical descent into madness of Aubrey Plaza’s Ingrid, but director/co-writer Matt Spicer and co-writer David Branson Smith both keep suspense the whole way through as well. Think of it as somewhere between What About Bob? and Nightcrawler and Young Adult.
We hope you can get all of that from this new, satisfyingly NSFW red band trailer.
Look for Ingrid Goes West in limited release on August 11th, then in wide release on August 25th.