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Run Sweetheart Run

R

2020

1h 43m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Initially apprehensive when her boss insists she meet with one of his most important clients, single mom Cherie (Ella Balinska) is relieved and excited when she meets charismatic Ethan (Pilou Asbæk). The influential businessman defies expectations and sweeps Cherie off her feet. But at the end of the night, when the two are alone together, he reveals his true, violent nature. Battered and terrified, she flees for her life, beginning a relentless game of cat-and-mouse with a bloodthirsty assailant hell-bent on her utter destruction. In this edge-of-your-seat dark thriller, Cherie finds herself in the crosshairs of a conspiracy stranger and more evil than she could have ever imagined.

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Critics Consensus

Run Sweetheart Run's heavy-handedness blunts the effectiveness of its message, but this remains a wily, unpredictable thriller.

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

Feste handles the action and horror in “Run Sweetheart Run” well; and for those who can handle its more preposterous twists there are trashy pulp kicks to be had here.

Oct 29, 2022

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

Feste’s overall ambition and craftsmanship, along with a fantastic central performance from Ella Balinska, hold things together even over the film’s rocky patches.

Rated: 2.5/4

Oct 28, 2022

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Matt Schimkowitz

AV Club

Run Sweetheart Run comes from a well-observed point of view that roughly 50% of the world’s population shares. But its singular focus is shortsighted, holding the movie back from delivering effective scares.

Rated: C+

Oct 27, 2022

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Downright intense survival horror film with a lot of malice projected toward not just predators, but the society that nurtures the predators.

Oct 20, 2023

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Nuha Hassan

Nuha Hassan

It’s an overambitious film that attempts to take the leap with its critical ideas of how society treats women.

Sep 8, 2023

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Nicholas Bell

Fish Jelly Films (YouTube)

Run Sweetheart Run is often more visually arresting than its consistently diminishing narrative, leading inevitably to the finish line of daybreak and the femme dom justice which the film wouldn’t have dared to exclude.

Rated: 2.5/5

Jul 27, 2023

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Daniel F

Starting off as a drama about a young single mother negotiating through a patriarchal society of oppression, harassment and casual sexual assault, the film switches to a Carpenter style slasher, but this Michael Myers has game. With a few fourth wall breaks almost mocking the learning voyeurism associated with stalk and slash type movies, it drops all subtlety in the final act and, especially after holding back on showing off the threat in favour of unseen terror throughout- even making a point of doing so, perhaps explains itself a bit too much in some quick exposition (sometimes, less is more- as the film itself proved up to this point), and while the jarring shift isn't as effective as say, Dusk til Dawn, it's still delightfully barmy enough to entertain and yet somehow, in all its absurdity, only a slight exaggeration of relatable and comparable real life experience (except the bit explaining everything). To take one thing away though, is that you should never trust a man who doesn't like dogs.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

09/27/23

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Adam S

Dogshit move that pushes agenda… I don't support misogyny but this is too much the other way around. The move is hard to watch, it lacks any deeper meaning or interesting story. The main character's behaviors lack any sense and logic. To be honest if you watch first 20 minutes watching rest is just waste of time, everything repeats over and over again, until it ends very predictably.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/20/23

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flom m

An ok movie with some not too subtile inspiration from funny games, and not quite subtile feminist advocacy. It goes to the shitter with the most uninspired last 15 minutes I had to suffer in my life. In case the audience were too dumb to understand the feminist stance, rather than writting a movie ending, they switch to a "man bad, woman good" stance, completely out of character and story, that leaves you dumbstruck with that question " but why, why did you felt the need to waste what was a good movie until now?"

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

08/30/23

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Chelsea T

the film was great until about half way through. a head got bit off and it lost all sense of actuality. The story had great tension then jumped into religiousness, which is not my cup of tea. i appreciate women empowerment but i found the script was a little over kill in its message delivery. I was also totally lost by the karate suits at the end. I did enjoy the originality of the story. I liked the gore- it was just enough in the right spots of the story. I would have enjoyed the story more had it stuck to the thriller without the religious spin.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

08/10/23

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Andrea B

This movie doesn't take its self too seriously, but it has you "on the edge of your seat " the whole time . Really enjoyed it .

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/06/23

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French C

Boring. Not scary. Everyone in this movie is a bad person for no reason apparently. All the main character had to do was explain what happened to her or go to a different police station. Plot holes galore

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

06/09/23

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Synopsis

Initially apprehensive when her boss insists she meet with one of his most important clients, single mom Cherie (Ella Balinska) is relieved and excited when she meets charismatic Ethan (Pilou Asbæk). The influential businessman defies expectations and sweeps Cherie off her feet. But at the end of the night, when the two are alone together, he reveals his true, violent nature. Battered and terrified, she flees for her life, beginning a relentless game of cat-and-mouse with a bloodthirsty assailant hell-bent on her utter destruction. In this edge-of-your-seat dark thriller, Cherie finds herself in the crosshairs of a conspiracy stranger and more evil than she could have ever imagined.

Director: Shana Feste
Screenwriter: Shana Feste, Keith Josef Adkins, Kellee Terrell
Production Co: Quiet Girl Productions, Automatik Entertainment, Gamechanger Films, Blumhouse Productions, Stuck On On
Rating: R (Horror Violence|Brief Nudity|Bloody Images|Language|Some Sexual References)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 28, 2022
Runtime: 1h 43m
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1

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