Measure of Revenge

  • Thriller
  • Drama
3/18/2022
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Justice will be served.

Theater actress Lillian Cooper's son dies mysteriously. When the investigating officer rules the cause of death an accidental overdose, Lillian conducts her own investigation which leads her to an unlikely alliance with her son's former drug dealer. On her quest for answers, Lillian hallucinates some of the iconic characters she's played on stage which serve as her inner voice, urging her to avenge her son's death.

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        Movies like this one never fail to remind me of Cameron Diazs "crazy bitch mother" character in My Sisters Keeper. The difference is that we werent really meant to sympathize with Diaz until he eventually relented and stopped being such a bitch. Here, however, Melissa Leo achieves the seemingly impossible feat of making Bella Thorne comparatively likable.

        The plot is your standard Roaring Rampage of Revenge disguised as a Shakespearean pastiche. Actress Lillian Coopers (Leo) son Curtiss (Jake Weary) death parallels that of King Hamlet (down to one of his alleged assassins being called Claude, which is just a little too on the nose, if you ask me), and Lillian is as crazy as Ophelia well, almost.

        Curtis dies from an apparent accidenta...

        September 15, 2022

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