Promising Young Woman
- Release Date
- December 13, 2020
- Director
- Emerald Fennell
- Cast
- Carey Mulligan , Bo Burnham , laverne cox , Clancy Brown , Jennifer Coolidge , Christopher Mintz-Plasse
- Runtime
- 113
- Main Genre
- Thriller
- Writers
- Emerald Fennell
- Tagline
- Payback never looked so promising.
Summary
From visionary director Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve) comes a delicious new take on revenge. Everyone said Cassie (Carey Mulligan) was a promising young woman ... until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie’s life is what it appears to be: she’s wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she’s living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story.
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