Several Sundance titles this year have inevitably addressed issues key to the #MeToo movement, many in sophisticatedly provocative ways — notably “Promising Young Woman.” Then there’s “Run Sweethea…
is a slick, flashy and trashy genre hash too knuckleheaded to be much fun even as a guilty pleasure.
An executive secretary who’s thinking of going back to nursing school, Los Angelean Cherie is raising an adorable daughter alone. She hasn’t exactly been a frequent swimmer in the dating pool since breaking up with the girl’s hot-tempered father , but tonight has hired a babysitter in order to have dinner with a purported Mr. Right, as fixed up by her own boss . Indeed, when first encountered, Ethan seems like a catch: very rich, attractive, attentive, unpretentious.
Such issues actually can be well-served by the horror genre. But “Run Sweetheart Run” uses them so tritely — and alongside such repetitive gory battering of Balinska’s character — that the result feels crassly opportunistic. Nothing gels, as the film careens from cartoonishness to violent peril to attempted satire to sentimentality and so forth, all of it hyperbolic and inorganic.
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