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"Look how easy that was. I guess you just had to think about it in the right way. I guess it feels different when it's someone you love."
"Nina was extraordinary. So smart. Weirdly smart. She was so completely herself. Even when she was four years old. She was fully formed from day one. Same face, same walk. And funny. Like a grownup is funny, kind of shrewd. I was just in awe of her. I couldn't believe she wanted to be my friend. She didn't give a fuck what anyone thought apart from me, because she was just... Nina. And then she wasn't. Suddenly she was something else. She was yours. It wasn't her name she heard when she was walking around. It was yours. Your name all around her. All over her, all the the time. And it just... squeezed her out. So when I heard your name again, your filthy fucking name, I wondered, when was the last time anyone had said hers? Or thought it even, apart from me? And it made me so sad because, Al... [holds up a scalpel] YOU should be the one with her name all over you."
"[Sarcastically] Who needs brains? They never did a girl any good."
"Oh, don't cry."
"[last lines - in a text to Ryan] You didn't think this was the end, did you? It is now. Enjoy the wedding! Love, Cassie & Nina."
"Stanley Thomas: We miss her, Cassie. But god, we've missed you too."
"Gail: And if you two decide to have sex on the counter, the bleach is in the back room. I don't want to walk in here tomorrow morning and see ass prints in the coffee grains. Got it?"
"Al Monroe: [while smothering Cassandra] Fucking... stop moving! Stop fucking moving! Stop fucking moving! Fuck you!"
"Ryan Cooper: Do you want to go to dinner, you miserable asshole?"
"Madison McPhee: They all want a feminist in college, because it’s cool to have a girlfriend who cares about something. And statistically, feminists are more likely to do anal. That’s literal fact, by the way."
"Revenge never looked so promising."
"Take her home and take your chances."
"This Christmas. Plan to make them pay."
"There aren’t many films at this year’s Sundance film festival that boast a premise quite as tantalising as that of Promising Young Woman, a candy-coloured yet darkly themed comic thriller. It goes like this: Cassie (Carey Mulligan) spends her weekends feigning close-to-blackout drunk behaviour in order to lure guys who see her as easy prey, to see how far they’re willing to go sexually with someone unable to provide consent... It’s a canny setup, from the devious mind of Killing Eve show-runner Emerald Fennell who acts here as writer-director, and while we’ve seen films where women violently fight back against rape culture before (from Ms 45 to Dirty Weekend), we haven’t seen one that feels quite as female and quite as well-rooted in the conversations we’re still somehow having to have. Cassie’s modus operandi is designed to root out the bad guys but quite often they’re not the guys who think that they’re bad in the first place.... Watching Cassie regain this power over these odious men is a deliciously giddy thrill."
"Carey Mulligan - Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas"
"Bo Burnham - Ryan Cooper"
"Alison Brie - Madison McPhee"
"Clancy Brown - Stanley Thomas"
"Jennifer Coolidge - Susan Thomas"
"Laverne Cox - Gail"
"Chris Lowell - Alexander "Al" Monroe"
"Connie Britton - Dean Elizabeth Walker"
"Adam Brody - Jerry"
"Max Greenfield - Joe Macklemore III"
"Christopher Mintz-Plasse - Neil"
"Sam Richardson - Paul"
"Alfred Molina - Jordan Green (uncredited)"
"Molly Shannon - Mrs. Fisher"
"Steve Monroe - Detective Lincoln Waller"