I Care a Lot is a cynical grift that has Rosamund Pike’s pristinely bobbed, chain-vaping Marla Grayson bilking old folks out of their life savings.
The game is part of a pipeline in which she becomes their court-appointed legal guardian and sends them to overpriced nursing homes in on the scam.
That is until she messes with the wrong woman, Dianne Wiest’s Jennifer Peterson, a sweet and perfectly cognizant older lady with ties to some dangerous people big on vengeance.But at the core of the story from writer-director J.
Blakeson (The 5th Wave) is a refreshing love story between Marla and her partner in crime, Eiza González’s Fran, in which there’s no meal made out of the queer relationship that gives the film its gravitas.“I think J., the.