If you happen to’re questioning the grammatical construction of the title of Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s new movie, “Do Revenge,” Camila Mendes’s Drea — who cash the time period within the pic — doesn’t give a fuck. As we see in a newly launched trailer for the Netflix function, Drea is just too busy cooking up methods of getting again at her boyfriend, who has seemingly made public an intimate video of her and left her feeling humiliated.
When 17-year-old Drea meets new switch pupil Eleanor (Maya Hawke) — who has found she now attends the identical faculty as bully Carissa (Ava Capri), who began a rumor about Eleanor being predatory in the direction of different women at age 13 — the 2 kind an unlikely friendship to assist each other in exacting one another’s revenge towards their respective tormentors. Because the trailer exhibits, Drea is amused by Eleanor’s perhaps-a-little-too-intense need for vengeance, commenting that she’s “giving off some critical Glenn Shut in ‘Deadly Attraction’ vitality.” Or “Glennergy,” as Eleanor quips.
The darkish comedy clearly isn’t taking itself too significantly, with Drea’s boyfriend, Max (Austin Abrams), beginning up “The Cis-Hetero Males Championing Feminine Figuring out College students League” whereas on his apology tour. Drea bangs her head towards a wall on the all-too-transparent announcement, whereas he receives applause.
Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson — who additionally co-wrote with Celeste Ballard, one in all her “Candy/Vicious” collaborators — “Do Revenge” is the filmmaker’s sophomore function, following 2019’s “Somebody Nice,” additionally for Netflix. She can be the creator of much-loved however short-lived collection “Candy/Vicious,” about two teenage women who flip vigilante to take revenge on rapists and abusers on their school campus. Robinson’s different credit embrace the “Thor: Love and Thunder” screenplay, and he or she served as a consulting producer on Marvel’s “Hawkeye.”
Mendes has been an everyday on The CW’s teen drama “Riverdale” since its 2017 premiere. Her different credit embrace function movie “Palm Springs,” whereas “Stranger Issues” star Hawke additionally appeared in Netflix teen horror flick “Concern Avenue: Half One – 1994.”
“Do Revenge” premieres on Netflix September 16.
Supply: Women And Hollywood
