Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor in Fair Play (2023)

Fair Play

Movie#19322232023R1h 53m
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6.4 / 10(46,775)

An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel far more than their recent engagement.

Rated
R
Runtime
1h 53m
Released
2023
Country
United States

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Release year: 2023

Storyline

An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel far more than their recent engagement.

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In a 2023 interview with Collider, Chloe Domont spoke about the importance of rehearsal in her process: "Rehearsals are invaluable. I don't know how anyone can make a movie and not rehearse. Even if you can't put it into the budget, figure out how to rehearse on weekends. That's what I preach because it just saves you so much time while shooting. You get to work out the kinks and bumps, and if the blocking doesn't quite work, or an actor's bumping on a line, or whatever. You have time to rewrite it, you can rework it with them. Also, we rehearsed with my DP (Menno Mans), so we were changing the shot list, we were finding better, more exciting ways to shoot a scene. So, by the time we got to shooting, on the day we could just fly... I think that I wouldn't be able to sleep the night before if I didn't know exactly what I was doing that day. (Laughs) I don't know how people do it. I mean, yeah, some people get off on that kind of spontaneity, but the thing is, something unexpected will always come up in filmmaking. It's like, no matter how much you prepare, too, no matter how much you rehearse, something unexpected will always come up. I think that that's the beauty of filmmaking. But for me, at least, when you're prepared ahead of time, you know exactly what you're doing coming in, then you can make those pivots very quickly because you've done all the work, and you've done all the prep."

The rights to this film were sold to Netflix for $20 million.

The film was shot in Belgrade, Serbia during the winter and height of the Omicron variant of coronavirus. Although the film is set in New York, the film only shot for 2-days in New York. This was confirmed by Alden Erenreich during a Q&A session while promoting the film.

User reviews

5/10

Solid premise, but unrealized potential

👍 263 · 10/7/2023
7/10

Insecurity is poison

👍 125 · 10/6/2023
5/10

Eh, it was okay but could have been a lot better

👍 163 · 10/7/2023

Technical specs

Sound mix
Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio
2.35 : 1
Color
Color
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