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Message: [QUOTE="nwhoopfan, post: 3699962, member: 7894"] Blumhouse just released a few movies thru Amazon Prime for Halloween season. I'm a big fan of Joey King, so I checked out "The Lie." It's not a horror film at all, more of a psychological thriller. Mirielle Enos and Peter Sarsgsard are King's divorced parents. She accidentally or on purpose kills her best friend. The parents go to great lengths to protect her and cover it up, of course with serious consequences. There is a big twist at the end. The possibility of it occurred to me somewhere in the middle. I can't say I really enjoyed it. Slow paced, none of the characters were sympathetic. You just keep wanting to bang your ahead against something hard, thinking this can't continue to spiral further out of control. And then the ending...jeez. My usual rant, King was playing a 15 year old girl. She's 21 currently. I read somewhere this was on the shelf for about 2 years, but even then I couldn't suspend my disbelief and buy her as being that young. Even better the best friend was played by an actress who is 27 now. Why does the movie industry keep insisting on doing this? They couldn't find anyone younger than mid 20s to cast as the friend? Seriously? Cas Anvar from "The Expanse" played the best friend's dad, I hadn't seen him in anything else. He's the pilot of the Rocinante in the show. [/QUOTE]