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79% 234 Reviews Tomatometer 36% 5,000+ Ratings Audience Score Poised with sharklike self-assurance, Marla Grayson (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she seizes and cunningly bilks through dubious but legal means. It's a well-oiled racket that Marla and her business-partner and lover Fran (Eiza González) use with brutal efficiency on their latest "cherry," Jennifer Peterson (two-time Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest) -- a wealthy retiree with no living heirs or family. But when their mark turns out to have an equally shady secret of her own and connections to a volatile gangster (Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage), Marla is forced to level up in a game only predators can play -- one that's neither fair, nor square. Read More Read Less

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Critics Consensus

A searing swipe at late-stage capitalism, I Care A Lot is an exhilarating pitch black comedy with a wicked performance from Rosamund Pike.

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Audience Consensus

Rosamund Pike and Peter Dinklage do good work, but they're acting in a dark and ugly story that doesn't give the audience anyone to root for.

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Oscar L One of the worst movies ever made. Possibly the worst. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 04/22/24 Full Review Pureart P This movie is a must watch if you have elderly people in your life or if you are elderly. Know your rights and protect them at all cost. This movie put a dark humor take on it but, it is a serious issue. Rosemund Pike is sharp, beautiful and talented actress in this movie. Really good and well played. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/21/24 Full Review Audience Member Evil, insipid, boring, infuriating, pretentious, and silly. This one is up there with the worst movies of all time. It completely and utterly fails to make believable characters or communicate any ounce of “satire” of the rot in late stage capitalism. The film critics are wrong, so do not waste your time watching this waste of a movie and save your blood pressure. Ironically, the making of this terrible movie is more emblematic of late-staging capitalism then the movie plot itself. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/20/24 Full Review Reeta V Saw it. Loved it. Would watch again! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/13/24 Full Review Darcy T Absolutely Fantastic must see of a movie. Rosamund Pike heads the cast in a riff on the scamming of western societies' senior citizens under the guise of guardianship. A fantastic cast including RP and Peter Dinklage head a movie with an amazing plot and characters you are rooting for but know you probably shouldn't be. Excellently photographed, a plot that cracks a long with unpredictable twists and turns. Comeuppance not always delivered where I wanted it to be. Highly recommended, can't wait for the directors next movie Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/07/24 Full Review JOSH M Wasn't an exciting movie there is no clear depiction of any virtues or values in summary there is no antagonist or protagonist Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/03/24 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

Cast & Crew

J Blakeson Director Rosamund Pike Marla Grayson Peter Dinklage Roman Lunyov Eiza González Fran Dianne Wiest Jennifer Peterson Chris Messina Dean Ericson
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I Care a Lot | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Elamin Abdelmahmoud BuzzFeed News If the film itself doesn't care to deliver on its own promise, it's hard to imagine why we should care at all. Dec 17, 2021 Full Review I Care a Lot | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Guy Lodge Film of the Week Filmmaking this perversely amoral is never going to be a crowdpleaser, and early responses have been aggressively divided, but I Care a Lot isn't out to be liked: like the best con artists, it gets you caught up in its strut. Mar 23, 2021 Full Review I Care a Lot | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Hannah Giorgis The Atlantic Though the film's final scene suggests a clear judgment of Marla's ethics, much of the preceding dialogue sets her up as the badass boss babe. Mar 2, 2021 Full Review I Care a Lot | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Jillian Chilingerian Offscreen With Jillian I Care A Lot gives us a reality check we haven't had in a while that will leave us wondering: who are the Marlas of the world? Aug 22, 2023 Full Review I Care a Lot | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Elissa Suh Moviepudding Cinematically frustrating... Aug 21, 2023 Full Review I Care a Lot | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Zach Pope Zach Pope Reviews I CARE A LOT IS AWESOME Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis Poised with sharklike self-assurance, Marla Grayson (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she seizes and cunningly bilks through dubious but legal means. It's a well-oiled racket that Marla and her business-partner and lover Fran (Eiza González) use with brutal efficiency on their latest "cherry," Jennifer Peterson (two-time Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest) -- a wealthy retiree with no living heirs or family. But when their mark turns out to have an equally shady secret of her own and connections to a volatile gangster (Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage), Marla is forced to level up in a game only predators can play -- one that's neither fair, nor square.

Director
J Blakeson

Executive Producer
Andrea Ajemian, Tara Moross, Sacha Guttenstein, Adam Fogelson, John Friedberg

Screenwriter
J Blakeson

Production Co
Black Bear Pictures, Crimple Beck

Rating
R (Some Violence|Language Throughout)

Genre
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller

Original Language
English

Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 19, 2021

Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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