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THOROUGHBREDS

By Cory FINLEY

Drama - Completed 2016

Two teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. In the process, they learn that neither is what she seems to be, and that a murder might solve both of their problems.

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Sundance Film Festival 2017

AFI FEST 2017

American Independents

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- USA
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Cory FINLEY
- Writer(s)
- Cory FINLEY
- Cast
- Olivia COOKE, Anya TAYLOR-JOY, Anton YELCHIN, Paul SPARKS, Francie SWIFT, Kaili VERNOFF
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-8BAA-0000-P-0000-0000-0
- Synopsis
- Emotionally challenged Amanda and contemptuous Lily reboot their childhood friendship after years of instability and judgment, thrown back together by standardized-test tutoring. When Lily’s icy stepdad, Mark, conspires to ship her off to reform school instead of her dream college, Amanda’s nonchalant quips about killing him suddenly seem enticing. Even as Amanda’s sinister tendencies surface and the girls hatch a plan, the mutual manipulation that has always defined their relationship threatens to derail their ambitions.
  
  First-time director Cory Finley’s impressively stylish and assured filmmaking evokes a high-class world that is simultaneously familiar and strange, dripping with acidic dark wit and a disquietingly eerie score. Finley nurtures and coaxes astounding chemistry out of his talented cast, from the capricious friendship that binds Olivia Cooke (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, 2015) and Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch, 2015), to the unruly vulnerability of Anton Yelchin as their unlikely co-conspirator. Firmly staking his claim as a filmmaker to watch, Finley comfortably basks in the quiet chaos of his characters and leaves behind a beautiful and orderly trail of destruction.

THOROUGHBREDS

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