Film Review: A Simple Favour

A Simple Favour is one film you should really watch… I was on the edge of my seat and wow it did not disappoint. Warning, some spoilers!

Sly and sweet with an acidic finale, A Simple Favour is a female-friendship comedy of polar opposites. Anna Kendrick, who plays Stephanie, is a widow raising her son in Conneticut. Stephanie doesn’t know what hit her when she meets a new friend Blake Lively, who plays Emily and we find out that she has gone missing.

Stephanie and Emily meet through their sons, who attend the same school where the other parents mock Stephanie’s anxious parenting. No surprise that she instantly takes to Emily, who emerged like a Vogue model during a rainy day to shine her radiance on Stephanie.

Stephanie spends her days spouting cupcake recipes on YouTube, while Emily caps off the school run with a strong martini. Trust me you won’t guess how this story will end!

And so the story unfolds, the film tells it’s story in flashbacks. Those flashbacks tell the truth of Emily, she has never been anyone’s friend. She was a bully, a drunk, and a narcissist.

In this clever and sexy thriller, flashbacks are the only thing that tell the truth, while the speaker is still talking, and eventually revealing darker truths.

You’re not sure where the film is going till it arrives, an emotional beat involving Emily’s hunky professor husband Sean (Henry Golding). Stephanie’s sudden “friendship” with Emily’s husband is strange to the police but this fuels her search for Emily, like she is getting closer to him to find her!

Their secrets are as dirty as their martinis. 🍸 Anna Kendrick stars alongside Blake Lively and Henry Golding in #ASimpleFavor. Watch it now on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray & Digital. pic.twitter.com/4wr1L6TuLi

— A Simple Favor (@ASimpleFavor) December 21, 2018

Incest, arson, fraud and addiction all have a role to play at one point or another within this film, the cast is the strong point – Golding, Lively and Kendrick certainly play brilliant parts and make the film what it is.

The many shocking plot twists keep you gripped and there’s plenty to be enjoyed, as long as you’re sufficiently prepared for such a wild ride.  It’s a thriller in which two women are the centrifugal force of the intrigue – a thriller in which you will be shocked by the ending.

Go and give it a watch – let me know what you think! I really like this film as it has such an intriguing storyline, if you’ve already seen it let me know in the comments below!