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Thoroughbreds is a 2017 American black comedy thriller film written and directed by Cory Finley in his directorial debut. It follows high school student Lily ( Anya Taylor-Joy ) and her emotionless friend Amanda ( Olivia Cooke ) as they scheme to kill Lily's stepfather ( Paul Sparks ) via a contract with a drug dealer ( Anton Yelchin ) while ...
Thoroughbreds: Directed by Cory Finley. With Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin, Paul Sparks. Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart.
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- 2018-03-09
Mar 8, 2018 · Instead, Oscar-winning writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash signed on to produce, they were joined by Alex Saks and her June Pictures (“The Florida Project”), and they gave him the green light to...
Mar 9, 2018 · “Thoroughbreds” is classically Hitchcockian in its smoldering homicidal tendencies, yet bracingly current with the spot-on casting of Anya Taylor-Joy and Olivia Cooke as childhood friends who reconnect and reveal the internal damage they’ve become skilled at suppressing. Yet despite all these comparisons, Finley has created a film that ...
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In suburban Connecticut, upper-class high schooler Amanda euthanizes her crippled horse with a knife, resulting in charges of animal cruelty. Sometime later, Amanda arrives at the home of the more popular and academically inclined Lily. The girls were previously best friends but grew apart after the death of Lily's father. They meet under the prete...
The script, which Finley had expected to be produced as a stage play, was instead acquired for production as a film by companies B Story (Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, and Kevin J. Walsh) and June Pictures. In April 2016, Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy and Anton Yelchinwere announced to have joined the cast. Finley would direct the film.
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2017, under the name Thoroughbred. Shortly after, Focus Features acquired distribution rights to the film, retitling it Thoroughbreds later in the year.It was released in the United States on March 9, 2018.
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 87% based on 167 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Thoroughbreds juggles genres with panache, delivering a well-written and refreshingly unpredictable entry in the teen thriller genre." On Metacritic, the film has a w...
Web site: Thoroughbreds (15). British Board of Film Classification. April 1, 2018. April 1, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180401144359/http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/thoroughbreds-film. dead.Web site: Thoroughbreds (2018) - Financial Information . .Web site: Film Review: 'Thoroughbreds' . Debruge . Peter . March 8, 2018 . . July 18, 2018 . ...yielding a film that presents an image far richer than its mid-seven-figure budget might suggest. . J...Web site: Thoroughbreds. Box Office Mojo. June 4, 2018. June 12, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143907/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=thoroughbreds.htm. live.- Lyle Vincent
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Thoroughbreds is a Black Comedy thriller starring Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy, and written and directed by Cory Finley (in his directorial debut.) It was actually filmed in 2016 and premiered at Sundance in 2017, but did not get a theatrical release until March 2018.
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