Inheritance (2020 film)

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Inheritance
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Directed byVaughn Stein
Written byMatthew Kennedy
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMichael Merriman
Edited byKristi Shimek
Music byMarlon Espino
Production
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Release date
  • May 22, 2020 (2020-05-22)
Running time
111 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$0.3 million

Inheritance is a 2020 American thriller film directed by Vaughn Stein and written by Matthew Kennedy. The film stars Lily Collins, Simon Pegg, Connie Nielsen, Chace Crawford and Patrick Warburton. Inheritance was released on May 22, 2020, by Vertical Entertainment. It received generally negative reviews from critics.

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Plot

After the death of Archer Monroe, the patriarch of a powerful political family, his estate is divided among his family. The beneficiaries are: his wife Catherine; his son William, a politician running for re-election; and his daughter Lauren, a Manhattan District Attorney. The family attorney, Harold Thewlis hands Lauren a message from her father, telling her a secret and directing her to an underground bunker on the family's property.

In the bunker, Lauren finds a chained man who identifies himself as Morgan Warner. Morgan tells Lauren he was Archer's friend and business partner. One night while driving drunk, they killed a pedestrian. Archer imprisoned Morgan to prevent him from exposing the incident and ruining his career.

Over the years, Archer treated Morgan like a confessor and admitted many secrets. As proof, Morgan directs Lauren to the victim's body. Lauren also finds Archer's longtime mistress, his illegitimate son, and evidence of Archer bribing to aid his children being elected to public office. Eventually Lauren decides to free Morgan, and directs Harold to set up an offshore bank account and charter a private jet so Morgan can disappear.

Morgan's sample of his fingerprints is identified and the result is sent to the Monroe house. Catherine is shocked by the photos and identifies him as Carson, claiming he is an evil man. Lauren learns that Carson's flight never left and Harold has been murdered. Returning to the Monroe house, Lauren finds that Carson has taken Catherine to the bunker.

Carson subdues Lauren and reveals that 30 years ago, he drugged and raped Catherine. Archer was taking Carson somewhere to kill him when they hit the pedestrian. Archer changed his mind and imprisoned Carson instead. Archer's death was actually by the poison he intended to use on Carson. Lauren fights back and, during their struggle, Carson claims Lauren is his daughter. Catherine seizes his gun and shoots him dead. Lauren and Catherine set the bunker on fire and leave.

Cast

Production

In November 2018, it was announced Simon Pegg and Kate Mara had joined the cast of the film, with Vaughn Stein directing from a screenplay by Matthew Kennedy. Richard B. Lewis, David Wulf, Dan Reardon, and Santosh Govindaraju produced the film, under their Southpaw Entertainment, WulfPak Productions, and Convergent Media banners, respectively. [2] From January to March 2019, Connie Nielsen, Chace Crawford and Patrick Warburton joined the cast of the film, [3] [4] while Lily Collins joined to replace Mara. [5] In April 2019, Marque Richardson joined the cast of the film. [6]

Principal photography began in February 2019 in Birmingham, Alabama. [7]

Release

It was scheduled to have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 20, 2020. [8] [9] However, the festival was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [10] Vertical Entertainment and DirecTV Cinema acquired distribution rights to the film and set it for a May 22, 2020 release. [11]

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 24% of 55 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.4/10.The website's consensus reads: "A would-be thriller that waits far too long to embrace the daffy potential of its bizarre premise, this Inheritance should be steadfastly refused." [12] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 31 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews. [13]

Box office

In the months after its video on demand release domestically (United States and Canada), Inheritance was shown in theatres in six other countries, earning $304,931 in foreign box office receipts. [1]

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