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Three friends from a rough Los Angeles neighborhood embark on a wild night of out-of-control partying. But when the rampage stops, the retribution begins. 

Initial release: June 4, 2021 (USA)

Director: Nabil Elderkin

Screenplay: Marcus J. Guillory

Executive producers: Nabil Elderkin, Kweku Mandela Amuah, MORE

Producers: Brad Feinstein, Tom Butterfield, Corey Smyth, Ben Pugh, Alex Georgiou

  

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 Dangerous lies review- A ridiculously titled film about a couple who stumble upon a stash of money

This brings us to Dangerous Lies, a comically titled new thriller from the director of Fatal Lessons, Dangerous Heart and It’s Christmas, Carol!, a similarly cheap yet not unenjoyable Friday night diversion.    

Originally called Windfall, the patchwork plot follows a young couple living on the breadline, or what a film such as this thinks is the breadline (their “lousy” apartment is enviably spacious). In the first scene, we see Katie (Riverdale’s Camila Mendes) and Adam (The Boys’ Jessie T Usher) stumbling across an aborted robbery at the diner where she works. 

Adam shoots and kills the assailant and four months later, they’re dealing with the aftermath. Katie is now working as a carer for Leonard (Elliot Gould), whose loneliness has made her an important part of his life. When he suddenly dies and the couple finds a large stash of money in his house, they find themselves telling some … DANGEROUS LIES!

 

If anything, that awful title helps to fill us in on exactly what to expect here, despite how generic it might be. This is the sort of low-rent, trope-filled thriller that used to exist on the bottom shelf of a video store, aiming for undemanding customers whose first, second, and third choices were all rented out for the night. Taken as such, it’s perfectly passable, a solidly made time-waster that drip-feeds its reveals with enough skill to keep us on board, even as we sigh and rage at the characters for acting in increasingly dopey ways.

 It’s one of those films where smart people do stupid things and the script, from Hallmark channel regular David Golden (whose credits include Finding Father Christmas, Engaging Father Christmas, and Marrying Father Christmas), stretches credulity so far that the film frequently threatens to buckle under the weight of its characters’ terrible choices.