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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