Promising Young Woman

IMDb

7.5/10

Rated

R

Promising Young Woman is a 2020 dark comedy thriller written and directed by Emerald Fennell, who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Carey Mulligan plays Cassie Thomas, who dropped out of medical school after a terrible event involving her best friend Nina. Now thirty and working in a coffee shop, she spends her nights pretending to be drunk in bars to confront the men who try to take advantage of her. A new romance with former classmate Ryan, played by Bo Burnham, gives her a chance to move on, until the past comes back.

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