I Care a Lot

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I Care a Lot

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2020

1h 58m

Comedy

Mystery & Thriller

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Poised with sharklike self-assurance, Marla Grayson (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she seizes and cunningly bilks through dubious but legal means. It's a well-oiled racket that Marla and her business-partner and lover Fran (Eiza González) use with brutal efficiency on their latest "cherry," Jennifer Peterson (two-time Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest) -- a wealthy retiree with no living heirs or family. But when their mark turns out to have an equally shady secret of her own and connections to a volatile gangster (Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage), Marla is forced to level up in a game only predators can play -- one that's neither fair, nor square.

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Critics Consensus

A searing swipe at late-stage capitalism, I Care A Lot is an exhilarating pitch black comedy with a wicked performance from Rosamund Pike.

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Audience Says

Rosamund Pike and Peter Dinklage do good work, but they're acting in a dark and ugly story that doesn't give the audience anyone to root for.

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Christina Newland

iNews.co.uk

It is refreshingly pungent, and as the engine of a crime plot with some truly outrageous twists, Pike gives an outstandingly nasty performance worthy of major attention.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 23, 2024

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Elamin Abdelmahmoud

BuzzFeed News

If the film itself doesn't care to deliver on its own promise, it's hard to imagine why we should care at all.

Dec 17, 2021

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Guy Lodge

Film of the Week

Filmmaking this perversely amoral is never going to be a crowdpleaser, and early responses have been aggressively divided, but I Care a Lot isn't out to be liked: like the best con artists, it gets you caught up in its strut.

Mar 23, 2021

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Jillian Chilingerian

Offscreen With Jillian

I Care A Lot gives us a reality check we haven't had in a while that will leave us wondering: who are the Marlas of the world?

Aug 22, 2023

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Elissa Suh

Moviepudding

Cinematically frustrating...

Aug 21, 2023

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Zach Pope

Zach Pope Reviews

I CARE A LOT IS AWESOME

Jul 26, 2023

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Samuel B

The most predictable movie I have ever seen.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/12/25

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Malori W

It was hard for me because there isn’t anyone good that you want to win. It was entertaining but disappointing, I guess I enjoy movies with an actual protagonist that deserves to win.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/11/25

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Esther H

If I could give it negative stars I would. It doesn’t even work as a thought provoking piece, as the storyline lost its way and never arced back to being any good at all.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/29/25

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Kain 7

Ok, were do I start from???? This film baits you in with something serious like the problem of Guardianships in America (land of the Free... whatever) and then it turns into something else. At the start of the film, after what we see, anybody right of mind and with some level of moral, would love to see Marla die or suffer for what she does and she is. Then, at end of the film, after this ridiculous plot development, you still want her to die and finally justice is served. That, and I mean seriously, that was THE ONLY GOOD PART OF THIS RIDICULUOS DEBACLE. Let's see: an inept judge who drinks anything that Marla would show him, next a mobster who has moral complication with torture than he has with using people as mules, his henchmen who are literally two different portrays of the gang of the Three Stooges, two women who, according to the Law of physics, should have been dead 20 minutes before the end of the film (once she ends up in the lake she manages to get out of the car, breaking out, I meant... how about water pressure? how about the windscreen that looked like papier-mâché? how about the a- synchronicity where she has all the time to return home after she walks out to a town, buys some new clothes, wait for a new taxi, then returns... best case scenario one hour has gone and her "friend" is still alive in the house after she was beaten and left for dead with the gas-tap on??? A mobster who is completely unable to clear out those two jokes of women that the scenographer want us to believe them to be some badass? (I mean, they go and kidnap the boss!!???? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH) I mean, who wrote this piece of crap???? Please change jobs. You will do everyone a favour! Absolutely ridiculous. I felt sorry for two of my favorite actors who ended playing this parts in this mockery of a film. Nearly 2 hours of my life lost!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/21/25

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Brisma G

Complete waste of time.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/19/25

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Worst ending of a movie I've ever seen. It's just not plausible. Very disappointing. There are so many ways this could have ended in a cool twist. Did the writer just give up?

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/18/25

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Poised with sharklike self-assurance, Marla Grayson (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she seizes and cunningly bilks through dubious but legal means. It's a well-oiled racket that Marla and her business-partner and lover Fran (Eiza González) use with brutal efficiency on their latest "cherry," Jennifer Peterson (two-time Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest) -- a wealthy retiree with no living heirs or family. But when their mark turns out to have an equally shady secret of her own and connections to a volatile gangster (Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage), Marla is forced to level up in a game only predators can play -- one that's neither fair, nor square.

Director: J Blakeson
Producer: J Blakeson, Michael Heimler, Teddy Schwarzman, Ben Stillman
Screenwriter: J Blakeson
Production Co: Black Bear Pictures, Crimple Beck
Rating: R (Some Violence|Language Throughout)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 19, 2021
Runtime: 1h 58m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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