Women Who Kill
- Director: Ingrid Jungermann
- Writer: Ingrid Jungermann
- Producer: Lauren Brady; Alex Scharfman
CGiii Comment
‘It’s Park Slope’ says a recently missing friend, ‘there aren’t hate crimes here, just a lot of intense parenting.’ So goes Ingrid Jungermann’s whip smart feature debut; a marvelous send-up of the search for meaning in modern-day relationships. Even uneventful encounters lead the more eager searchers to find drama where there is none.
Morgan (Jungermann) and Jean (Ann Carr) work well together as hosts of their semi-famous true crime podcast because they didn’t work, at all, as a couple. When Morgan strikes up a relationship with the mysterious Simone (Sheila Vand, importing substantial menace from her breakout role in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night) their professional interest boils over into a cycle of suspicion, paranoia, and fear. Thankfully, Morgan has a confidant (maybe not her first choice given that she is in prison for murder). Women Who Kill is an adept and wry comedy on modern romance’s hollow results set in an LGBTQ Brooklyn that pulls ample humor from awkward and, perhaps to confirmed Park Slopers, all-too-familiar situations.
—Loren Hammonds
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Cast & Characters
Annette O'Toole as Lila;
Sheila Vand as Simone;
Deborah Rush as Grace;
Grace Rex as Kim;
Francis Benhamou as Candice;
Shannon Patricia O'Neill as Alex;
Ann Carr as Jean;
Rodrigo Lopresti as Jackson;
Tami Sagher as Celia;
Ingrid Jungermann as Morgan;
Terence Nance as Darren;
Doug Moe as Tailor;
Keisha Zollar as Ginger;
Anna Orlova as Officer Pratt;
Lizzie Hollins as Co-op Mom