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Tika Sumpter, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ben Tavassoli were cast as leads in June 2017.

(A generation ago, these roles would almost certainly gone to men. In the movie An Acceptable Loss, former top U.S. security adviser Elizabeth “Libby” Lamm (Tika Sumpter) is threatened by associates from her dark past including Rachel Burke (Jamie Lee Curtis), a steely, commanding politician with an unwavering knack for achieving her goals.Colluding with Rachel is Adrian, an unyielding, patriotic chief of staff. Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. Running time: 1 hour, 42 minutes. The movie Polaroid is styled in the vein of The Ring and Final Destination and revolves around a high school loner, Bird Fitcher, who stumbles upon a ... WAM has been your source for accurate theatrical release dates, entertainment news, posters & photos, free screenings, trailers, reviews and DVD release dates since 2004. She enters the lobby and sees Martin and her father there. Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by almost 15,000 votes in Pennsylvania and almost 4,300 in Georgia, keeping him on a trajectory to net the 270 Electoral College votes needed to take the White House. She has over a dozen of them completely filled and locks them in a vintage safe that she purchased from an antique shop. President Burke tries to convince her to join her cabinet as Secretary of State in exchange for burying the memoir. Three years later, it’s still vacant, and taxpayers are out even more money on the failed deal.

[7], IFC Films acquired distribution rights to the film in October 2018. Jamie Lee Curtis is a force as the frighteningly focused VP, who, unlike Libby, never had any second thoughts about the mission and four years later is convinced more than ever it was the right thing to do.

She believes she will be exonerated by the public by asserting the years of domestic safety as proof of its success.

Hollywood still doesn’t have a gender-equal playing field, but strides are being made.). An Acceptable Loss will be released in theaters and on VOD Jan. 18 by IFC Films.

Sumpter delivers a finely calibrated performance as Libby, who always seems to have it together in public but goes home and cries in the shower and keeps a loaded gun in her bed for protection. on December 01, 2017 . Party unity? ‘An Acceptable Loss’: Star firepower of Jamie Lee Curtis, Tika Sumpter prevails, Chicago rapper King Von killed in Atlanta shooting: police. While holding him at gunpoint, Martin admits to stalking and states that he was trying to understand how someone who could commit such an enormous atrocity, referring to the attack on Homs. You’re not being paranoid about the government being out to get out when the government is actually out to get you. The president leaves and tells Adrian to release Dr. Lamm and end the surveillance on Martin. [4] Metacritic reports a weighted average score of 40 out of 100, based on 11 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". No such luck. The movie also … Advertisement. It had its world premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival on October 13, 2018. [1] It was released on January 18, 2019. The website's critics consensus reads, "An Acceptable Loss attempts a political thriller approach to a serious issue, but ends up sacrificing thrills -- as well as a satisfying story -- in the bargain". Martin follows her home and later creates fake lawn service flyers as pretext to case her home. Acceptable Loss. It contains copies of the memoir and asks him to give it to the media to reveal the truth.

It was released on January 18, 2019, by IFC Films. Dr. Lamm and Martin escape and go on the run. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. An Acceptable Loss is a political thriller film written and directed by Joe Chappelle and starring Tika Sumpter and Jamie Lee Curtis. Here we have one of those political conspiracy thrillers in which everybody is really smart but occasional someone has to do something really dumb in order for the wheels of the plot to keep turning — and we just go with it because it’s the movie equivalent of a beach read, and the performances are so dang entertaining. It was released on January 18, 2019, by IFC Films. The president disagrees and overrules him.

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John Matthews faces three counts of murder in the shooting of his girlfriend, her mother and sister in front of his Gresham home. As Martin finishes reading, her home is broken into by undercover agents.

Playing: Starts Jan. 25, Laemmle Monica Film … He tells her that his parents and siblings lived in Homs and that he wanted "to understand the face of evil." He wants assurances that she will not reveal details of the Homs operation but she rebuffs him. Throughout, Tika Sumpter demonstrates the screen presence of a true star, and Jamie Lee Curtis creates a monster so terrifying she’d have Michael Myers turning tail and running away. [3][2], On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 13% approval rating based on 32 reviews, with an average rating of 4.67/10. [3], An Acceptable Loss grossed $32,452 in the United States and Canada. By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. One day, Dr. Lamm is approached at her home by Adrian (Jeff Hephner), the president's chief of staff. Dr. Lamm is recognizable due to a Capital Dispatch op-ed where she explains and defends her role in an attack by US forces, revealed later in the film to be a strike on Homs. [6] Production began shortly thereafter in Chicago, Illinois. She arrives amid protests and the university employees are cold to her, including her assistant and another professor who confronts her at a university mixer.

The attack kills the intended targets as well as causing the deaths of 150,000 civilians. King Von, whose real name is Dayvon Bennett, grew up in the Parkway Gardens, a South Side housing project, along with Chief Keef and Lil Durk.

‘An Acceptable Loss’ Rated: R, for language and brief sexuality.

Judges in Georgia and Michigan quickly dismissed campaign lawsuits Thursday, undercutting a campaign legal strategy to attack the integrity of the voting process in states where the result could mean Trump’s defeat. WAM. Martin is withdrawn and sullen, and is intentionally standoffish from his roommate Jordan (Alex Weisman). He watches Dr. Lamm place the note pads in the safe.

Dr. Lamm is being stalked by Martin Salhi (Ben Tavassoli), a graduate student at the university. A large portion of the film was shot at Northwestern University, Chappelle and producer Colleen Griffen's alma mater. Rated R (for language and brief sexuality). Twenty-three people are confirmed dead including Dr. Lamm, her father and Martin, with the attack being blamed on him. All the universes except ours.” “Isn’t that what you wanted?”, I retorted.

A few days later, Adrian returns, this time demanding fidelity to the administration. Call Me By Your Name 2 is the sequel to the Oscar winning 2017 movie Call Me By Your Name. It is revealed that Adrian acted on his own. They spend the night on the beach but Martin awakens to find Dr. Lamm gone, but the note pads were left with him. We follow the stories and update you as they develop. Every night, she comes home to her study and writes feverishly on note pads at her desk. “An Acceptable Loss” is a B-movie with some A-level acting, particularly by Tika Sumpter (who played the young Michelle Obama in “Southside with You”) as a controversial former national security adviser and Jamie Lee Curtis as the take-no-prisoners vice president of the United States, whose thirst for war is so all-consuming she makes Dick Cheney look like Mister Rogers.