During the Cold War, we had “I Married a Communist” and “I Married a Monster From Outer Space” — two predicaments that the era’s paranoias rendered basically the same thing. In recent years, however, a more common screen fantasy might be summarized as “Whoops, My Significant Other Turns Out to Be an International Spy/Assassin.” There have been numerous efforts in that vein, of variably intentional absurdity. Now there’s “Role Play,” which by their standards doesn’t seem particularly outlandish for offering “The Big Bang Theory’s” Kaley Cuoco as a globetrotting killer cloaked in the normie guise of suburban mom.
This smaller-scaled, gender-flipped spin on the “True Lies” conceit, however, gets most of its charm and humor from David Oyelowo, playing the Jamie Lee Curtis role of the solidly middlebrow spouse flummoxed at finding themselves married to a lethal weapon. Revealing hitherto underexposed comic chops, he elevates a...
This smaller-scaled, gender-flipped spin on the “True Lies” conceit, however, gets most of its charm and humor from David Oyelowo, playing the Jamie Lee Curtis role of the solidly middlebrow spouse flummoxed at finding themselves married to a lethal weapon. Revealing hitherto underexposed comic chops, he elevates a...
- 1/12/2024
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
"I love you, I have to go to work now, though..." Prime Video has revealed the official trailer for a romantic thriller arriving this winter called Role Play, the latest from a French filmmaker Thomas Vincent who has been directing TV series most recently. It's set to launch streaming on Prime Video in January, skipping theaters entirely. Emma has a wonderful husband and two kids in the suburbs of New Jersey – she also has a secret life as an assassin for hire – a secret that her husband David discovers when the couple decide to spice up their marriage with a little role play. For some reason they end up in Berlin together? Who knows why. Starring Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo, with Connie Nielsen, Rudi Dharmalingam, Lucia Aliu, and Bill Nighy. Yet another simple twist on romance with a dash of "how do we spice this up" with another cheesy...
- 11/16/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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