Part of Romance Is Dead
Now that Chris (Best Actor nominee Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy (Catherine Keener) and Dean (Bradley Whitford). At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined.
The debut feature from the mind of comedian-turned-modern-master-of-horror Jordan Peele is equal parts gripping thriller and provocative social commentary.
“Peele succeeds where sometimes even more experienced filmmakers fail: He’s made an agile entertainment whose social and cultural observations are woven so tightly into the fabric that you’re laughing even as you’re thinking, and vice-versa.” —Stephanie Zacharek, TIME (Feb 23, 2017) “A brilliantly satirical horror comedy that pierces the sensitive points of American race relations with surgical precision and destroys comforting illusions with radical ferocity…. With his first film, he’s already an American Buñuel.” —Richard Brody, New Yorker (Feb 27, 2017) “Jordan Peele has made an extraordinary leap in genre here, and he’s also crafted a horror film that has more blistering observations about race than half a dozen well-intentioned Oscar-bait dramas.” —Alonso Duralde, The Wrap (Feb 22, 2017)
