In the wake of the #MeToo movement, there have been several films to address female sexual assault, abuse and harassment, but none as directly and audaciously as “Promising Young Woman,” a searing indictment of a male-dominated culture that gives the benefit of the doubt to the male abuser rather than the female victim.
Carey Mulligan stars as Cassie, a med school dropout who regularly poses as a fall-down drunk to be picked up by so-called nice guys — including Adam Brody and Christopher Mintz-Plasse — to take her home. Every time this happens though, she never makes it home and the good intentions of these faux gentlemen go out the window as they attempt to take advantage of a drunk woman. She then turns the tables on them and gives them a rude awaken.
Carey Mulligan and Christopher Mintz-Plasse in "Promising Young Woman." (MERIE WEISMILLER WALLACE/FOCUS FEATURES)
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