Lizzie

Lizzie

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  • Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
  • Release Date: 2018-09-14
  • Runtime: 106 minutes
  • : 6.2
  • Production Company: Artina Films
  • Production Country: United States of America
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6.2/10
6.2
From 271 Ratings

Description

Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes to work for the family, Lizzie finds a sympathetic, kindred spirit, and a secret intimacy soon blossoms into a wicked plan.

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Reviews

  • CinemaSerf

    5
    By CinemaSerf
    Chloë Sevigny is unremarkable here, as the eponymous daughter in the rather oppressive Borden household. When they hire a new maid "Bridget" (Kristen Stewart), the two become friends and as the plot thickens, the renowned story of her axe-wielding and it's aftermath is presented to us. Stewart always comes across for me as a sterile actress; it doesn't matter what part she plays, she always looks completely dead behind the eyes - and in a role, here, that requires a great deal of intensity, she just doesn't deliver. Indeed, much of the entire focus here seems to have less to do with the murders, and of the frankly heinous way in which both sisters were treated by their molester of a father (Jeff Perry) and indifferent step-mother (Fiona Shaw), and more with any excuse to get naked and get down to some artily shot, passionless, lesbian nookie. If you know the story, then you will know what happens so there is no mystery to any of it - this is just an alternative, speculative, take on an history that could have delivered so much more had the director focused on the seriously undercooked characters and less on the aesthetics and the rather depressing score.

  • FelicityBliss

    N/A
    By FelicityBliss
    It's a re-imagined re-telling of an old whodunit. It's a decent movie if taken on its own merits. Every movie about historical events needn't be 100 percent factual. Creative license allows for historical accuracy to be bent or even broken. Kinda like with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Were salient details about our 16th president's life left out of the history books? We know Borden and his wife were hacked to death and no one was ever convicted. If Lizzie did it and got away with it, how could we know? Every fact can't possibly be known by anyone who wasn't present, either physically or by way of an audio or video recording of some kind. This is precisely HOW someone could have gotten away with murder in the 1800s. Good for you Lizzie. Good for you.

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