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Fair Play

  • 2023
  • R
  • 1h 53m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
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Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor in Fair Play (2023)
An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel far more than their recent engagement.
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An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel far more than their recent engagement.An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel far more than their recent engagement.An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel far more than their recent engagement.

  • Director
    • Chloe Domont
  • Writer
    • Chloe Domont
  • Stars
    • Phoebe Dynevor
    • Alden Ehrenreich
    • Eddie Marsan
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    45K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    3,272
    687
    • Director
      • Chloe Domont
    • Writer
      • Chloe Domont
    • Stars
      • Phoebe Dynevor
      • Alden Ehrenreich
      • Eddie Marsan
    • 292User reviews
    • 132Critic reviews
    • 73Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 11 nominations total

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    Phoebe Dynevor
    Phoebe Dynevor
    • Emily
    Alden Ehrenreich
    Alden Ehrenreich
    • Luke
    Eddie Marsan
    Eddie Marsan
    • Campbell
    Rich Sommer
    Rich Sommer
    • Paul
    Sebastian De Souza
    Sebastian De Souza
    • Rory
    Sia Alipour
    Sia Alipour
    • Arjun
    Yacine Ramoul
    • Jeremie
    Brandon Bassir
    Brandon Bassir
    • Dax
    Jamie Wilkes
    Jamie Wilkes
    • Quinn
    Freddy Sawyer
    • Derek
    Geraldine Somerville
    Geraldine Somerville
    • Emily's Mother
    Patrick Fischler
    Patrick Fischler
    • Robert Bynes
    Laurel Lefkow
    Laurel Lefkow
    • Luke's Mother
    Buck Braithwaite
    Buck Braithwaite
    • Theo Luke's Brother
    Jim Sturgeon
    Jim Sturgeon
    • Uncle J
    Linda Ljoka
    • Mrs. Meyers
    J. Pace
    J. Pace
    • Noah Analyst #1
    Abe Fark
    • Harris Analyst #2
    • Director
      • Chloe Domont
    • Writer
      • Chloe Domont
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    User reviews292

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    7noshouse

    If you love each other, why not support your partner's career advancement?

    To be honest, Phoebe Dynevor's passionate performance in this film is quite seductive and different from her previous roles. Fortunately, the main focus of this film emphasizes that they are colleagues who are in love and whether they have different views regarding the only career advancement opportunity. If it were me, I would certainly wish my loved one the best and support her to climb higher. But I'm not the male lead, and I'm just an ordinary Taiwanese person. I'm not very familiar with whether Americans in the finance industry need to uncover secrets like in this film to advance their careers.
    8cristinehuma

    Started as a 5, ends as a 10

    This was so much better than I expected. It's the kind of movie that you watch and hope it's good then you can't stop as it gets more intense and more intense with each scene. Makes me feel relieved to be over 50 and passed the grinding stage of life.

    You don't want to relate, but you somehow do. In particular, I like how it ended. To me, the ending is very important and never do I ever want to be left, hanging and with questions. Phoebe Dynevor carried the movie and although I've noticed her, now I will have to watch for her. Great actress. Alden Ehreneich, although I never warmed to him, has proven to be a good one. Guess it all depends on the roles you land. Watch it. You won't regret it.
    5antoniotierno

    It never gets to grab the attention..

    The pair to compartmentalize their personal and work lives to some extent, but all hope of keeping work and love separate goes wrong when she receives a promotion he thought he was going to get. This is not the erotic thriller Netflix's algorithm so desperately would like it to be. There is sex, yes, and a psychological duel, but not so much perverse desire. It's ultimately an ugly film. Fair Play is about the sort of guy a lot of women are uncomfortably familiar with - the one who's perfect until he's not, who's an ally as long as he stays in power. It's about the sort of woman other women dread to become, the one who realises her own power is illusory only when it's far too late. Both the lead actors deliver good performances but in my opinion you don't know where the whole story is going..
    7drbru-56205

    Enjoyable thriller drama

    I don't watch many movies nowadays because most of them are simply very bad, I rather stick with the series but this one here did not dissappoint. I wanted to see something longer, without shooting, killing, with some dialogues and I found it. It has good plot, good acting. There are no forced sex scenes, almost no sex at all but there is a good tension between the main characters. Their interaction is very realistic. It is good fun that keeps you watching until the end. Of course it is not a masterpiece but if you want to spend enjoyable evening, maybe with your spouse, I can recommend it to you.
    6evanston_dad

    So Many Missed Opportunities

    So many missed opportunities.

    "Fair Play" had a chance to be a spicy erotic thriller about all sorts of gender power dynamics. But instead an incident late in the film puts one character in the unequivocal role of victim and the other in the unequivocal role of aggressor, and all nuance or ambiguity for the audience is stripped away. It doesn't help that the two leads have zero chemistry, and they're also both fairly reprehensible people as far as anything the film tells us about them (which isn't much). They're superficial and materialistic, and both are willing to sell their souls to a morally bankrupt profession. There's no rooting interest here, so I didn't much care who came out on top. The movie mostly just felt me leaving bad and like I needed to take a shower.

    Grade: B-

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      In a 2023 interview with Collider, Chloe Domont spoke about the importance of rehearsal in her process: "Rehearsals are invaluable. I don't know how anyone can make a movie and not rehearse. Even if you can't put it into the budget, figure out how to rehearse on weekends. That's what I preach because it just saves you so much time while shooting. You get to work out the kinks and bumps, and if the blocking doesn't quite work, or an actor's bumping on a line, or whatever. You have time to rewrite it, you can rework it with them. Also, we rehearsed with my DP (Menno Mans), so we were changing the shot list, we were finding better, more exciting ways to shoot a scene. So, by the time we got to shooting, on the day we could just fly... I think that I wouldn't be able to sleep the night before if I didn't know exactly what I was doing that day. (Laughs) I don't know how people do it. I mean, yeah, some people get off on that kind of spontaneity, but the thing is, something unexpected will always come up in filmmaking. It's like, no matter how much you prepare, too, no matter how much you rehearse, something unexpected will always come up. I think that that's the beauty of filmmaking. But for me, at least, when you're prepared ahead of time, you know exactly what you're doing coming in, then you can make those pivots very quickly because you've done all the work, and you've done all the prep."
    • Goofs
      When Emily returns from the bar and is in the kitchen talking to Luke, she starts eating a piece of food and then throws it onto the counter. However, on the next cutaway from Luke, she is still holding the piece of food.
    • Quotes

      Emily: I think expectations are way out of whack.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Amanda the Jedi Show: I Watched 45 Movies in 1 Week | 'Talk to Me' and the Best Movies of Sundance 2023 Explained (2023)
    • Soundtracks
      Love to Love You Baby (Extended Version)
      Written by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder & Pete Bellotte

      Performed by Donna Summer

      Courtesy of Island Records

      Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

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    • Release date
      • October 6, 2023 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Film Sözlük
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Juego limpio
    • Filming locations
      • Serbia
    • Production companies
      • MRC Film
      • Media Rights Capital (MRC)
      • Star Thrower Entertainment
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 53 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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