Widows (2018 film)

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Widows
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Directed by Steve McQueen
Screenplay by
Based on Widows
by Lynda La Plante
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Sean Bobbitt
Edited by Joe Walker
Music by Hans Zimmer
Production
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Distributed by
Release dates
  • September 8, 2018 (2018-09-08)(TIFF)
  • November 6, 2018 (2018-11-06)(United Kingdom)
  • November 16, 2018 (2018-11-16)(United States)
Running time
130 minutes [1]
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$42 million [2]
Box office$76 million [2]

Widows is a 2018 neo-noir heist thriller film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by Gillian Flynn and McQueen, [3] based upon the 1983 British television series of the same name. [4] The plot follows four Chicago women who attempt to steal $5 million from the home of a prominent local politician in order to pay back a crime boss missing money stolen by the women's husbands before they were killed in a botched getaway attempt. A British-American co-production, the film stars Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez and Elizabeth Debicki in the title roles alongside Cynthia Erivo (in her film debut), Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Jacki Weaver, Carrie Coon, Robert Duvall, and Liam Neeson in an ensemble supporting cast.

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Widows premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on November 6, 2018 and in the United States on November 16, by 20th Century Fox. The film received critical acclaim, with praise aimed at its direction, editing, screenplay and performances (particularly Davis, Debicki and Kaluuya), with critics crediting it for blending "dramatic themes with popcorn thrills". [5] [6] The film grossed $76 million worldwide on a production budget of $42 million and received several award nominations, among them being one for Davis for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Plot

In Chicago, Harry Rawlings and his criminal gang's getaway van is blown up during a police standoff after stealing $2,000,000 from crime boss Jamal Manning. Jamal threatens Veronica, Harry's widow, demanding compensation, needing the money to finance his campaign for alderman of a South Side ward. He is running against Jack Mulligan, the next-in-line of a dynastic family that has held the position for decades. Mulligan doesn't like politics, but is happy to profit from it; his father Tom, the previous alderman, warns him that he will face everlasting shame if he loses to Jamal.

Veronica is given a key to a safety deposit box by Bash, Harry's loyal chauffeur, which contains Harry's notebook with a detailed plan for stealing $5 million from Mulligan's home. She is advised to sell the notebook to Jamal's people, but decides against it.

Veronica decides to carry out the heist, recruiting two of the other widows of Harry's gang, Alice and Linda. Alice has lost her livelihood and is pressured by her mother to become a sugar baby. Linda has lost her store, as her husband secretly gambled away the rent payments. The fourth widow, Amanda, does not join them, as Veronica discovers she has a 4-month-old baby. Alice acquires guns and a getaway van while Linda deciphers Harry's blueprints. Jamal's brother and right-hand man Jatemme attacks several witnesses and kills Bash while looking for Harry's notebook. Eventually, Alice uses a real estate executive, her sugar daddy, to identify the blueprint as the safe room in the Mulligan family mansion which also serves as Jack Mulligan's campaign headquarters.

Linda recruits Belle, her babysitter, to be the group's driver. Veronica visits Amanda and notices Harry's flask in the home, which raises the question of what Harry's involvement with Amanda — and the baby — is. Her suspicion is confirmed when her dog paws vigorously at a closet door, indicating she is very familiar with the person behind it - revealed to be Harry after Veronica storms off without a confrontation. It is revealed that Harry double-crossed his crew by deliberately blowing up their getaway van and is in league with Mulligan to ruin Jamal's campaign. Returning home, Veronica opens the door to her son's room and relives the memory of his death: while on the phone with Harry, he was shot by police officers after being pulled over while driving. Veronica visits the Mulligan mansion under the guise of asking Jack for protection from the Mannings, and is able to case the premises while Belle scans the outdoor security.

Veronica blackmails the CEO of the Mulligans' security company for the safe code, using incriminating photos left in Harry's notebook. The heist begins with Belle creating a disturbance down the street to draw the outside security detail away. Veronica and the others stun the security guard inside and intimidate Tom Mulligan's careperson. Veronica, Linda, and Alice reach the safe and retrieve the money. Tom Mulligan appears from his bedroom, unmasks Veronica and wounds Alice with a gunshot; Linda fatally shoots him.

The women escape, but Jatemme appears, holds Belle at gunpoint and flees in their van with the money; they follow him in a separate car and ram him from behind, causing him to crash and killing him. They retrieve the money, then get Alice to the hospital. Veronica returns alone to their hideout, where Harry arrives to steal the money, needing $1 million of it to keep Mulligan quiet about his faked death. Harry claims that after the death of their son and subsequent disintegration of their marriage, he wanted to start over with Amanda and their child. Harry retrieves the money in the van and turns to shoot Veronica –but Veronica kills him first, then plants on him the gun used to kill Tom Mulligan.

Mulligan wins the position of alderman due to a sympathy vote following his father's murder. Linda reacquires her store, Alice sets up her own business, and Belle moves away. Veronica donates a large sum to rebuild a school library on the condition that it be named after her son Marcus. Outside of a diner, Veronica sees and warmly greets Alice.

Cast

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Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, and Elizabeth Debicki star as the titular widows.

Production

Development and casting

The project was announced as being in development on March 27, 2015, with a script written by Gillian Flynn and Steve McQueen, and with McQueen attached to direct. [7] In September 2016, Viola Davis joined the cast. It was reported that Jennifer Lawrence was approached for a role, but, due to scheduling conflicts, had to decline. [8] In November 2016, Cynthia Erivo joined the cast. [9] In January 2017, André Holland entered negotiations to co-star in the film, but does not appear in the finished product. [10] The next month, Elizabeth Debicki was cast in the role Lawrence had declined, [11] [12] and Michelle Rodriguez [13] and Daniel Kaluuya were also announced as cast members. [14] In March, Liam Neeson joined the cast. [15] The following month, Colin Farrell was added along with Robert Duvall. [16] [17] In May, Garret Dillahunt, Jacki Weaver, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Lukas Haas and Brian Tyree Henry were set to co-star, [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] and in June, Carrie Coon was added. [23] Michael Harney and Jon Bernthal joined the cast in August. [24] [25] The British actress Ann Mitchell, who had portrayed Dolly Rawlins in the television series, has a small part as Amanda's mother.

Filming

Principal photography began on May 8, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. [26] [27] : 18 

Music

Hans Zimmer composed the film's score with additional music provided by Steve Mazzaro. The soundtrack, released by Milan Records, includes the score as well as songs by Nina Simone, and the Cool Kids, as well as a new song "The Big Unknown" by Sade later released as a single. [28]

Release

The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2018. [29] [30] It was released in the United States on November 16, 2018. [31]

Reception

Box office

Widows grossed $42.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $33.6 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $76 million, against a production budget of $42 million. [2]

In the United States and Canada, Widows was released alongside Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and Instant Family , and was projected to gross $12–18 million from 2,803 theaters in its opening weekend. [32] It grossed $4.2 million on its first day, including $600,000 from Thursday night previews. It ended up making $12.3 million over the weekend, finishing fifth at the box office. Deadline Hollywood stated that the low debut was because of a "lack of urgency" in the advertising, and that the studio should not have relied on the good reviews alone to sell the film. [33] Other publications, including Business Insider , said the film should have been released outside the busy November frame, and that the perceived marketing toward specifically African-American audiences, and its R-rating, limited the film's appeal. [34] In its second weekend, the film dropped 33% to $8.2 million (and $10.5 million total over the five-day Thanksgiving frame), finishing eighth, and then made $4.4 million in its third weekend. [35] [36]

Discussing the box office and audience reception, star Cynthia Erivo said: "There's something that's super messy about Widows, which I loved. There's an expectation of a heist movie to be slick and tidy, and it just wasn't that. I think that was its charm, but I'm not sure that everyone quite understood that. But maybe we're getting to a place where people will." [37]

Critical response

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Steve McQueen received praise for his direction.

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 91% based on 420 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Widows rounds up a stellar ensemble for a heist thriller that mixes popcorn entertainment with a message – and marks another artistic leap for director Steve McQueen." [38] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 84 out of 100, based on 57 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [39] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars; social media monitor RelishMix noted online responses to the film were "mixed". [33]

Owen Gleiberman of Variety praised McQueen's direction and Davis's performance and wrote, "The strongest aspect of Widows is the way the movie gets us — and keeps us — rooting for its desperate-living heroines. They're past the point of just wanting to have fun (the subtext of almost every heist movie); they're less concerned with comeuppance than sheer survival." [40] Eric Kohn of IndieWire gave the film an "A−", saying the film "works as well as it does due to the way McQueen juggles substance with entertainment value to such eager subversive ends. The movie engages with topics as complex as sexism, police brutality, and interracial marriage, but it still delivers on the car chases and gunplay. No superhero movie digs this deep." [41] Dirty Movies considered it one of the best films of 2018, describing it as McQueen's best work since Hunger . [42] Representing more critical views, Leah Greenblatt at Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "C+", arguing that it's "not clear exactly what kind of movie(s) Widows wants to be" and that it feels like a "crazy-quilt patchwork of other, better films". [43]

Accolades

Top ten lists

Widows was listed on numerous critics' top ten lists for 2018, among them: [44]

Awards and nominations

OrganisationCategoryRecipient(s)Result
BAFTA Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role Viola Davis Nominated
Satellite Awards Best Motion Picture – Drama WidowsNominated
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama Viola DavisNominated
Best Film Editing Joe Walker Nominated
Best Original Score Hans Zimmer Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress Elizabeth Debicki Nominated
Best Editing Joe Walker Nominated
African-American Film Critics Association Top 10 FilmsWidowsNominated
Black Film Critics Circle Best ActressViola DavisWon
Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Acting Ensemble The cast of WidowsNominated
Best Action Movie WidowsNominated
Best Editing Joe WalkerNominated
Dublin Film Critics Circle Best ActressViola DavisNominated
IndieWire Critics Poll Best Supporting ActressElizabeth Debicki4th place
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Best EnsembleThe cast of WidowsNominated
London Film Critics' Circle Supporting Actor of the Year Daniel Kaluuya Nominated
Supporting Actress of the Year Elizabeth DebickiNominated
Screenwriter of the Year Gillian Flynn Nominated
Steve McQueen Nominated
British/Irish Actor of the YearDaniel KaluuyaNominated
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress Elizabeth DebickiNominated
Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Best Supporting ActressElizabeth DebickiNominated
Best Action MovieWidowsNominated
Best Ensemble CastThe cast of WidowsNominated
National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress Elizabeth DebickiNominated
Best Supporting Actor Brian Tyree Henry Nominated
North Carolina Film Critics Association Best Supporting ActressElizabeth DebickiNominated
North Texas Film Critics Association Best ActressViola Davis4th place
Best Supporting ActressElizabeth Debicki3rd place
Online Film Critics Society Best Supporting ActressElizabeth DebickiNominated
Best Adapted ScreenplayGillian FlynnNominated
Steve McQueenNominated
Best EditingJoe WalkerNominated

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