Vengeance

[Opens July 29 in theaters.] When a cynical, acerbic, egotistical, aspiring Brooklyn journalist/podcaster (B.J. Novak) heads to a funeral in West Texas of an occasional hookup (Lio Tipton), who is a talented guitarist and singer, and then is drawn into helping her eccentric, close-knit family (Louanne Stephens, Isabella Amara, J. Smith-Cameron, and Dove Cameron, and Elli Abrams Bickel) find her alleged killer after a revenge-fueled brother (Boyd Holbrook) insists she did not die in an oil field of a drug overdose in B.J. Novak's compelling, multifaceted, dark, well-acted, intense, humor-dotted, thought-provoking, star-studded (John Mayer, Ashton Kutcher, Zach Villa, and Aaron Rogers) 107-minute crime thriller, the writer proposes "The Dead White Girl" story to his podcast producer and editor (Issa Rae) in which he records his candid talks with the family and interviews with the locals during his investigation.
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