Help – Movie Review
96 Minutes, Not Rated
Written and Directed by Blake Ridder
Synopsis:
A young woman’s life turns chaotic when she uncovers a deadly secret about her friend…A painful break up prompts Grace to visit her friend Liv who is living in the idyllic English countryside with her boyfriend Edward and his dog Polly.
The trio start the weekend in high spirits but soon turns into chaos, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the friends come to see each other in a whole new light. Everyone has a secret…
Domestic drama. Gotta love it.
But it’s not the drama you think. Sure, you’ll get close to it, as I did, but you likely won’t get all the way there.
And if you do, good on you, because I didn’t, not till it was too late to count.
A tight script helps this pandemic-shot film work, with the performances of our 3 leads carrying this “who done what to and with whom” little mystery-thriller along.
Mostly conducted at a not-frantic pace, the movie almost never drags through its 96-minute runtime, which is good, because otherwise it might have simply become a Hallmark movie of the week.
It was definitely enjoyable enough, and I’m going to go ahead and recommend you seek it out to watch if you’re in the mood for a non-blockbuster, non-action-oriented shoot-em-up movie, but rather something a little bit more intimate.
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Help is now available On Demand and VOD.
Help stars Louis James, Emily Redpath, Sarah Alexandra Marks, and Blake Ridder.
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