Jack and I truly loved this comedy about a whip-smart, hyper, amoral young woman who gets into the debt-collecting business to achieve her life goal of getting rich. Zoey Deutch (Lea Thompson's daughter) is transcendent as manic Peg. She's supported by Judy Greer as her patient mother, Noah Reid as her trusting brother, and Jermaine Fowler as the federal attorney who can't resist her.
Director Tanya Wexler works from a whip-smart script by Brian Sacca, making his feature debut. It takes place in Buffalo NY but was shot in Toronto.
I can't find online, and frankly don't remember, the soundtrack by Matthew Margeson. Someone posted a Spotify playlist but it has too many lyrics for me to stream it while trying to compose coherent sentences.
Deutch was last blogged for Zombieland: Double Tap before we saw her eight episodes of The Politician; after writing about Greer in Wilson I saw her eight episodes of Casual, three of I'm Sorry, the first season of Kidding (second is apparently on deck for 2020) and more; Wexler was blogged for Hysteria (which I called flawless in 2012); and Margeson for Kingsmen: The Secret Service. Reid is best known to me as David's partner Patrick in Schitt's Creek and Fowler is familiar, probably for his parts in Sorry to Bother You and more.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics' average of 79% doesn't convey how much fun we had with this movie, though its audience's average of 86 is closer.
We saw it on February 18 but it's already available to rent on most of the regular outlets. We highly recommend it.
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