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  1. Apr 4, 2024 · The Trouble with Jessica is a cruel film – and that’s entirely fine, because it’s been smartly populated with all the archetypes of insufferableness. Jessica, who Varma plays with a toss of ...

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  2. Mar 25, 2024 · Directed by Matt Winn, who co-wrote the screenplay with James Handel, The Trouble with Jessica is a very British dark comedy-drama, with an essence more on the drama – alongside quite the number of whip-smart remarks that (in our UK setups) would easily slide into the conversation at an upper-middle-class dinner party and, yes, that class system is important in this particular context.

  3. Apr 7, 2024 · The revelation that Jessica has, inexplicably, taken her own life in their back garden imperils this plan. As the couples conspire to cover this up, Winn’s idiosyncratic caper lurches into uncharted territory. The filmmaker last worked within the realm of horror on The Hoarder (2015) but this film deliberately outruns such genre categorisation.

  4. Apr 3, 2024 · Cons. Four privileged Londoners are put through the wringer by a troublesome corpse in the sardonic black comedy The Trouble with Jessica, a darkly enjoyable film that combines the intricate plotting of a well-oiled farce with fangs-bared social satire. The body in question belongs to the eponymous Jessica (Indira Varma), who has tagged along ...

  5. May 31, 2024 · The Trouble with Jessica is an entertaining enough film, with a strong cast and some stand-out one-liners, but is ultimately more comfortable with emulating its target than skewering it. As far as eating the rich goes, this film barely takes a bite. Words by Kat Lenahan

  6. The Trouble With Jessica tries to be funny, weird, and dramatic, but it doesn't commit to any of those tones enough to make this worthwhile, nor does it blend whatever is there to any successful effect. The Trouble With Jessica releases in UK & Irish cinemas on 5th April 2024 www.jessicafilm.co. uk. Tags: alan tudyk Black Comedy British Indira ...

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  8. Apr 3, 2024 · Watch on. Some of the film’s tension revolves around revealing the nature of that history — the rest revolves around a group of supposedly intelligent people making terrible choices involving a dead body. While that part of the scenario may be hard to swallow, the characters and their reactions feel frighteningly, often frustratingly, real ...

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