Documentary/Biopic Anna Kendrick’s Directorial Debut “Woman of the Hour”

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Daniel Zovatto To Co-Star In Anna Kendrick’s Directorial Debut – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Zovatto is set to co-star opposite Anna Kendrick in the true crime thriller The Dating Game, which Kendrick is also directing. Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios is behind the film with Kendrick also producing. Denis O’Hare, Kathryn Gallaghe, Nicolette Robinson, Kelley Jakle and Autumn Best. Production is currently under way in Vancouver.

The script is from a Black List script by Ian MacAllister McDonald and is based on the stranger-than-fiction true story of Cheryl Bradshaw, who was a bachelorette on the hit 70s TV matchmaking show The Dating Game and chose handsome and funny bachelor number one, Rodney Alcala. But behind Alcala’s charming façade was a deadly secret: he was a psychopathic serial killer.

 

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Incredibly effective teaser. Excited to see how Anna does for her debut.

 

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[Gee]

Teaser trailer is terrifying. Looking forward to this.

 

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[Deck Rickard]

Just watched it. Excellent directorial debut from Anna and a stellar lead performance. Very unsettling and disturbing. It’s a good hard look at misogyny, not only perpetrated by a despicable serial killer but also the patriarchal system that often insulates people like him (especially in the 1970s).

 

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This is still not available on Netflix in so many regions across the world .

But anyway I was finally able to watch this and I thought it was really great. Anna Kendrick did a terrific job directing. There were some very tense moments done very effectively. I really like that even though this is about a real life serial killer, there was a bigger focus on the victims however brief it may have been for some of them. A lot of times with these true crime movies there’s a tendency to deify the serial killers and sensationalise the violence but that wasn’t the case here. I mean those scenes felt very brutal and scary but they weren’t unnecessarily gory and the focus wasn’t on the women being brutalised so that was a really cool thing. And I also really liked the way she highlighted the misogyny and sexism faced by the women, not just in how the police handled all the complaints against this man and let him get away for so long, but also in their everyday interactions whether that was with romantic interests or people they worked with.

Really great overall. Very much looking forward to what Anna directs next.

 

[Lily Adler]

This is still not available on Netflix in so many regions across the world .

But anyway I was finally able to watch this and I thought it was really great. Anna Kendrick did a terrific job directing. There were some very tense moments done very effectively. I really like that even though this is about a real life serial killer, there was a bigger focus on the victims however brief it may have been for some of them. A lot of times with these true crime movies there’s a tendency to deify the serial killers and sensationalise the violence but that wasn’t the case here. I mean those scenes felt very brutal and scary but they weren’t unnecessarily gory and the focus wasn’t on the women being brutalised so that was a really cool thing. And I also really liked the way she highlighted the misogyny and sexism faced by the women, not just in how the police handled all the complaints against this man and let him get away for so long, but also in their everyday interactions whether that was with romantic interests or people they worked with.

Really great overall. Very much looking forward to what Anna directs next.

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