The pleasure of a thriller like this is to get lost in its locales and caught up in the web it spins.
Films like this live and die on the commitment of their lead performance and whether the audience roots for her to get out of this mess. The scenery is gorgeous, the twists keep the adrenaline pumping, and the performances are memorable. Beth trusts her own instincts, even when the police, Kate’s estranged husband Jay (Parth Thakerar), and even her own husband Rob try to get her to doubt what she knows to be true about her best friend. The pleasure of a thriller like this is to get lost in its locales and caught up in the web it spins. They’ve been best friends since Beth’s semester abroad in England, during which Kate introduced Beth to her now husband Rob (Luke Norris). The women have drifted a bit since the birth of Beth’s daughter Aster. By the end of Beth and Kate’s weekend, one of them will be dead. Everything is sunshine and palm trees as bright-eyed new mom Beth (Leighton Meester) makes her way by taxi to a girls weekend away with best friend Kate (Christina Wolfe). In free fall after the dissolution of her marriage, the whole trip is on Kate's, including the lushest AirBnB, raw oysters, and copious amounts of alcohol.
Leighton Meester finds danger abroad in this diverting if excessively twist-laden Netflix thriller.
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It's the dark thriller that's just dropped on Netflix. And audiences want to know where The Weekend Away was filmed in real-life.
That’s not to say they are the same person at all, but I tend to take elements of my friends in terms of physical descriptions more than personality.” “That’s the joy of being able to adapt your own work is being able to do that. “Off-screen, I will say that it was the best place to have a new baby,” she said. When I wrote the book, I was already imagining it as a movie, so everything key from the book really did go into the script.” The Weekend Away is about a holiday that takes a turn for the worse. “It’s a thriller by name but less edge-of-your-seat than lounging on the couch, absorbing beats of plot like the ocean tide,” says Guardian critic Adrian Horton, who gave it 3 stars.
Leighton Meester talks to TODAY about the ending of her Netflix movie The Weekend Away and how Beth compares to Blair Waldorf.
Beth may be worlds away from Blair, but she's similar to someone more important to the film: Meester herself. "It was really huge blessing (to shoot backwards) because I got to get it out of the way. I don’t know if that would exactly happen to her to begin with," Meester says. Over the course of the movie, Beth begins to deteriorate. "Maybe who you suspect it is, maybe that’s who it was in the first place." "I'm most excited for people to (suspect) everyone," Meester says.
Leighton Meester stars as Beth, an American tourist in Croatia trying to find out who murdered her best friend, in the Netflix movie "The Weekend Away."
In the book, Beth does not confront Rob and the story concludes with her realizing her husband was the one behind her best friend's death. Rob then turned violent and pushed Kate onto the rocks, where she smacked her head and fell into the sea. Rob claimed Kate had been screaming and crying about their affair ending, saying she was in love with him—but this was not true. Beth called Kovac (Iva Mihalic), the lead detective, from Rob's bathroom and placed her phone in her pocket. It was this fight with Beth that finally convinced the Croatian detectives she had not killed her friend. Pavic became the prime suspect because he was thought to have been the last person to see Kate alive.
Netflix's choice to release this movie is even more intriguing, given that only a couple months back, the streaming juggernaut dropped a Kristen Bell-led TV ...
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