WOMAN OF THE HOUR
Genre
Thriller
Running time
89 minutes
Year
2023
Language
English
Subtitle
English
Country
United States of America (USA)
Director
Anna Kendrick
Bio
Producer
Roy Lee, Miro Yoo, J.d. Lifshitz, Raphael Margules
Cast
Anna Kendrick, Tony Hale, Daniel Zovatto, Nicolette Robinson
Scriptwriter
Ian Maccallister Mcdonald
Actor Anna Kendrick, familiar from the Pitch Perfect series as a classic American sweetheart, here casts herself in a very different kind of role in her superbly controlled directorial debut. Based on the true crimes of serial killer Rodney Alcala, who in 1978 became a successful contestant on the television show The Dating Game, the taut narrative cuts between Alcala’s grisly doings and those of Sheryl Bradshaw, a struggling actor who goes on the show in the hope of boosting her career. Swirling through the game and its terrifying aftermath are questions that remain unhappily contemporary: about the morality of dating shows, about everyday threats of violence against women and about the fact that women who had encountered Alcala simply were not believed.
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