Another Simple Favor
Came out; 2025
Time; 2 hours
Watched: Amazon
Rated: R violence, sexual content, nudity, language throughout and suicide
IMDB Rating; 5.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
Tomato Meter 62%
Popcorn Meter 38%
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Blake Lively as Emily Nelson
Anna Kendrick as Stephanie Smothers
Allison Janney as Aunt Linda McLanden
Joshua Satine as Miles Smothers
Andrew Rannells as Darren
Alex Newell as Vicky
Taylor Ortega as Agent Irene Walker
Michele Morrone as Dante Versano
Story Line;
Stephanie Smothers and Emily Nelson reunite on the island of Capri, Italy for Emily's extravagant wedding to a rich Italian businessman, which is interrupted by murder and betrayal.
Thoughts:
This wasn't as good as the first one, but it was still pretty good. It's a fun movie and the fashion is literally amazing!
I don't consider myself to be fashion forward but the dress that Anna Kendrick wears during the rehearsal in Italy is to die for!
They make fun of themselves as the women playing her mother wasn't Jean Smart, they point that out in the movie.
The twist in this one was fantastic!
The scenery was beautiful, the plot was fun and the acting was great!
CAUTION; Spoiler Alert
Five years after the events of the first film, Stephanie Smothers is a famous true crime vlogger and amateur detective and has written a book about her friendship with Emily Nelson and her subsequent imprisonment. At a signing event, she is confronted by Emily, who has been released on appeal. She is marrying her old friend Dante Versano, a wealthy Italian man from a family with connections to organized crime. She invites Stephanie to be her maid of honor, goading her into agreement with the promise of increased book sales and the threat of a potential lawsuit.
After arriving in Capri along with Dante and Stephanie's agent Vicky, the two reunite with Emily's ex-husband Sean and son Nicky. Also at the wedding are Emily's mother Margaret and her aunt Linda, as well as Dante's mother Portia, who has a contentious relationship with Emily, accusing her of marrying into the family for money. At a lunch before the wedding, a bitter and intoxicated Sean has a heated confrontation with Dante. Later, Sean is murdered in his hotel room by an unknown assailant.
Stephanie attends Emily's "bachelorette party", where she turns out to be the only guest, and the two reconnect. When Stephanie returns to the hotel, she discovers Sean's death, which the local police write off as an "accident". Suspecting Emily's involvement, Stephanie follows her the next day but is distracted by an American tourist who reveals herself as Irene Walker, an FBI agent investigating Linda, and shows Stephanie a photo of Linda talking to a mysterious woman that Stephanie identifies as Emily from her tattoo. They are interrupted by Dante, who Stephanie later sees in a heated discussion with Matteo Bartolo, a member of the Versanos' rival family.
Emily and Dante are married. At the reception, Dante makes a show of burning the prenuptial agreement between him and Emily, declaring it as a gesture of peace between the Versanos and the Bartolos. Later that evening, Stephanie follows Dante as he leaves the reception, only to witness him being shot to death. Portia accuses Emily of murdering him, while Linda casts suspicion on Matteo, who vehemently denies it. With Emily's presence accounted for, and Stephanie the only witness to the murder, she is placed under house arrest while the death is investigated.
Stephanie meets with Emily, only to realize from her odd behavior that she is in fact Charity, the third of the set of triplets that included Emily and her late sister Faith. Charity stabs herself, framing Stephanie for the attack. Stephanie is freed from her captivity by Isabella, a housekeeper paid by Irene. Isabella lets her into Margaret's room; she reveals that Charity's stillbirth was faked by Linda, a con artist who raised her as her own. Stephanie leaves the hotel and meets Irene, but before she can be taken to a safehouse, Irene is fatally stabbed by Charity in disguise. Meanwhile, Linda discovers from Margaret that Stephanie spoke with her, and smothers her with a pillow. Stephanie is taken to meet with Portia Versano.
Portia injects Stephanie with sodium thiopental, believing that she and Emily conspired to kill Dante. After failing to get any clear answers from her, Portia orders her killed, but she is rescued by Emily. She explains that Linda attempted to blackmail her and Dante, threatening to reveal that their wedding was a marriage of convenience to hide that Dante and Matteo were lovers. After she refused, Emily was confronted by Charity, who killed both Sean and Dante due to her romantic obsession with Emily. Charity drugged her and married Dante in her place, with Emily only being freed after Charity forgot to drug her that day.
Charity, posing as Emily, uses Stephanie's phone to livestream, sending a coded threat to Emily and Stephanie that she will kill Nicky if Stephanie does not turn herself in. Stephanie and Emily confront Charity and Linda, who is holding Nicky at gunpoint. Linda plans to kill Stephanie and pin the murders on her, with Charity assuming Emily's life, money, and position within the Versano family. Stephanie points out that Emily will also have to die, which Charity rejects. In the ensuing commotion, Nicky flies a toy drone into Linda's face, allowing Charity to take her gun and shoot her, sending her over a cliff to her death.
Emily convinces her sister to take her place in prison, while also taking responsibility for all of the murders committed. Stephanie returns home, writing a second book about the murders in Capri and honoring Emily's wish that she gives Nicky a normal life. Emily, who has remained in hiding in Italy, is confronted by Portia. She reveals that she knew the marriage between Emily and Dante was a sham, and that Emily did not commit the murders. In return for welcoming Emily into the Versano family, she requests "a simple favor", handing her an envelope with unknown contents.
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