Running time: 114 min. Rated R (violence, language, drug use).If ever there was a movie worth venturing back to the theater for, it’s this blistering horror-comedy.
By turns acidly funny and genuinely upsetting, “Promising Young Woman” stars Carey Mulligan as an avenging heroine for our time, and its gut-punch twists promise big audience reactions.
Mulligan is Cassandra, a caustic 30-year-old whose life has been mysteriously derailed. A med school star who suddenly dropped out, she’s moved back in with her parents (Jennifer Coolidge and Clancy Brown), works a dead-end coffee shop job, and has seemingly no relationships or friends other than her kindhearted boss (Laverne Cox).
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