Audrey Plaza stars in this recent release. Plaza works a menial job trying to make ends meet (she has art school debt) as a caterer but one day after covering a co-worker's spot (he needs to take his kid to a school event) she gets repaid w/a chance to make a quick buck w/a shady outfit giving their minions duped credit cards to purchase big ticket items (big screen TV's) for resale. Getting increasingly frustrated w/her day job & the promises from her airy, irresponsible friend, Megalyn Echikunwoke, to get her a position in her ad firm, she decides to go whole hog on the illicit activities (prompted by her mentor & soon to be lover, Theo Rossi) but when Rossi gets robbed of his funds by his partner (as a rebuke for Plaza getting caught on security video), Rossi & Plaza devise a plan to get the funds back. Plaza has been getting much press for her dramatic turn & the film does deliver in some areas w/some lapses in story construction (something someone like Michael Mann may've ironed over) but Plaza is always watchable. Also starring Gina Gershon as Echikunwoke's boss & John Billingsley (the doctor from Enterprise) as a job interviewer.
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