PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN: Last Day Thursday, August 5th

Watch Trailer Director: Emerald Fennell
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie

SEE IT IN THEATERS!

The Athena Cinema is re-opening this summer! And we want to share some of the best independent films that we did not get to show during our closure, because they deserve to be shown in a theater, and you deserve the chance to see them in one.

Learn more about the Movies You Missed Series here

 

About the film

Everyone said Cassie (Carey Mulligan) was a promising young woman… until a tragic event abruptly derailed her future. Now she’s a medical school drop-out, living at home with her worried parents and working at a coffee shop with a concerned boss (Laverne Cox). It seems like she is at a standstill, except for the double life Cassie leads at night….

 

Nominated for 5 Academy Awards, including:

  • Best Picture
  • Best Director
  • Best Lead Actress (Carey Mulligan)
  • Best Original Screenplay *WINNER*
  • Best Film Editing

 

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Running Time: 113 min113 MIN
Not Rated
This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

The film's empowerment fantasy of a woman who steamrolls male egos is as stylish and fun as its portrait of gender relations is dire.

Pat Brown
Slant Magazine