Get Out

 

Get Out 2017

Director: Jordan Peel

• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel, LaKeith Stanfield, Lil Rel Howery
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Daniel Kaluuya – Widows, Black Panther, The Fades, Johnny English Reborn, Doctor Who
• Catherine Keener – Enough Said, The Soloist, Genova, Into the Wild, Full Frontal, Being John Malkovich, Living in Oblivion, Johnny Suede
• Bradley Whitford – The Darkest Minds, Kate & Leopold, Philadelphia, Robocop 3, The Scent of a Woman
• Caleb Landry Jones – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, God’s Pocket, X Men First Class, Breaking Bad, No Country for Old Men
• Marcus Henderson –Whiplash, Django Unchained
• LaKeith Stanfield – Knives Out, Short Term 12
• Why? Sounded interesting.
• Seen: 2 July 2021.      

       Chris (Kaluuya) is going to meet his white girlfriend Rosie’s (Williams) parents for the first time and is a little concerned that they don’t know he’s black. She assures him that they aren’t racist.  When they arrive, they and their other guests bend over backwards to assure him that they admire and envy black people. But the family’s black servants regard him in a way that he finds odd. It’s all a bit… creepy. I thought this was a comedy.

       It’s not a comedy. It a warped kind of scary movie. I can’t decide how much I like it but Kaluuya is very good. 

3 * of 5 (Hal doesn’t like it and gives it 2*.)