“Eileen”- I saw it tonight! Ask me anything!

[quote] “Eileen”- I saw it tonight!

C’mon. Really?

R1 is there a problem?

Anyway, I had a delicious milkshake during the movie. It was so good

And the loaded fries, which were delicious

OP I wanted to watch this but I heard the same thing you said, there is an unnecessary twist. What was it?

He might not want to say, R5, but I’m also curious. I’m going to look up the spoilers because OP’s synopsis has me wondering. I also looked up the Saltburn spoiler. Twists usually disappoint me.

Is the twist that Eileen is her sister?

I read this, it's a book by Ottessa Moshfegh. An easy read but a ridiculous non-sequitur of an ending.

I believe Ruth is Eileen's sister, r7.

OP seems fat.

Here...

R9 There is no Ruth here. It’s Rebecca and Eileen.

R5 r6 there is a young man in the juvenile hall who stabbed his cop father to death. One day his mother comes to visit him for a sit down with him and Dr. Rebecca, and within minutes she demands to leave, crying, and upset. This happens right before Christmas. One day Eileen comes to work and learns that Rebecca is away for the Holidays, back to her hometown of Manhattan, NY, where she was born and raised. A few days later Rebecca calls Eileen while she’s at home and invites her over her place for drinks and to chat, and of course Eileen is ecstatic and agrees. The night comes and Eileen dresses up and makes sure she looks amazing, as she thinks this is a date. She shows up at Rebecca’s place, which is a small house that is messy and disorganized etc. they chat for a bit and drink some wine. Eventually Rebecca asks Eileen if she can confide in her and tell her something that can never be shared, and of course Eileen agrees. The secret is that isn’t Rebecca’s house, it is the house of the mother to that teenager who visited and left days prior. She drugged and tied up the mother and put her in The basement. Eileen rushes to leave but Rebecca stops her and begs for Eileen to help her, and that she called her to come over as a witness, because she needs to get the mother the confess that she knew what was going on in that house which led to the teenage son to murder his father but she also wanted to see Eileen. Eileen eventually agrees to help and rushes to her car to get her fathers gun that is now in her possession because a cop signed it over to her because her alcoholic father gets drunk then stands by the window pointing the gun at people who walk by.

They go downstairs and Eileen tells the woman she needs to confess, there is arguing and then Eileen pulls out the gun as a scare tactic to get the woman to speak. The woman finally confesses that she knew what was going on, and explains that of course at first she didn’t know what was happening but one night woke up late at night and checked in her sons bedroom and saw what was happening. She had been getting infections in her vagina and she never knew what was going on, she assumed he was cheating on her with women while working as a cop and bringing stuff home but it was that her husband was raping their young son. Instead of stepping in, she started making her son clean himself out before bed for when his father wanted to penetrate him so it wouldn’t be dirty etc. Her reasoning for this is that after she had her kid her husband didn’t look at her the same. She said men don’t look at their wives the same after giving birth and he would never touch her anymore and was distant. That’s part of why she thought he was out cheating. But suddenly her husband was coming to bed at night and super affectionate with her and loving and wanting to fuck her and be all over her. She loved it. He would only be that way after fucking their son, so she went along with it without the husband knowing she knew to not lose that affection and attention she was getting from him.

R5 r6

After hearing this Eileen shoots the mother, with Rebecca rushing over to the mother and forcing tons of pills down her throat with some liquid poison to make it look like a suicide. That was Rebecca’s plan all along but Eileen shooting the mother ruined the plan. Rebeccas asks Eileen why she shot her and Eileen answers because she got upset. Eileen then comes up with a plan to bring the womans body back to her house and make it look like her alcoholic father killed her, because everyone in town knows how he is with that gun. Rebecca says that’s a good idea and for Eileen to go bring the body back to her place, stage the murder and she will come pick her up after cleaning up in the woman’s house and then they can run away to NYC together and be a couple. Eileen drives the body to her fathers house, goes upstairs and leaves the gun on her fathers bed. She grabs all her money she saves and hides and goes downstairs and waits by the window for Rebecca to show up. Rebecca never does. Rebecca lied and used Eileen. Eileen takes the body and drives into the woods and leaves the body in the front seat of the car in the woods, then goes by the road and waits hours for someone to hitchhike with. Finally, hours later (it’s now morning and bright outside) a truck drives by and picks her up, and you see her driving off, out of Boston.

The end

What do you call a woman with one leg? Eileen

R14 ….

Are you cut?

“An enema and a bath would make it better for everyone”

Flopped badly. I don't know what their strategy was, but the few ads I've seen for it recently made it seem like it hadn't even opened yet, and it's in its 3rd week of release. They did a small expansion of 26 screens this weekend for a total of 558, and the movie only grossed $200K. That's $361 per screen, so expect this to have a short shelf life and disappear without a trace.

R18 pay attention to the box office. Most films are not making much. It’s like you don’t understand basic numbers

[quote][R9]There is no Ruth here. It’s Rebecca and Eileen.

Get hep, get hep, r12.

[quote] pay attention to the box office. Most films are not making much. It’s like you don’t understand basic numbers

Do you just have this on a cut and paste loop for yourself? You're boring and always wrong.

Always wrong? The Top 10 earned $68 million combined. This same weekend in 2022 the Top 10 earned $151 million combined. This same weekend in 2021 the Top 10 earned a combined total of $281 million.

But keep saying that the box office isn’t down. With over 100 titles released this year, less than 20 grossed more than $100 million.

Who gives a fuck if the box office is down. We're talking about the limited release of one movie. Stop trying to wedge your one and only argument into every conversation.

Finally went to see this out of curiosity. What a total mess of a film.

Trying to figure out how to post a link to my IMDb review…

Here it is. Probably spoilers. Written as someone who has read the novel.

I watched it yesterday and surprisingly liked it. WHile I'm not a Hathaway fan, I thought she did a great job. I actually thought it could have been longer and I would have liked to see a little more of the relationship between Rebecca and Eileen so that Rebecca felt justified in confiding what she had done. That felt a little rushed to me, but it was hardly the disaster it's been made out to be.

I read the novel it's based on when it first came out. Overhyped by critics, in my opinion. Dark and depressing but not in a revelatory way.

Eileen author profile and pic here - best quasi-contemplative resting bitch face I've seen in some time....

I think I recognize the theatre OP is at. Also...OP seems like he has halitosis .

[quote] lives with her alcoholic father who was a cop who was fired after he fell into alcoholism after his wife died.

Is her real name Kitty Foyle?

[quote] R9 There is no Ruth here. It’s Rebecca and Eileen.

R12 My Sister Eileen was about two sisters, Ruth and Eileen Sherwood. (Musical version: Wonderful Town.)

R12, I thought they were giving the woman a sedative to make her stop screaming, not that they killed her.

Despite the frequently deserved abuse she comes in for here, I do love AnnE. Even in second-rate movies like this one.