A ‘50s-set psychodrama ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ has become a talk of town since its trailer was released as it features Harry Styles.
Florence Pugh and Harry Styles starrer already made headlines during the filming process. Directed by Olivia Wilde, Don’t Worry Darling will be in US movie theaters on September 23, with UK cinemas debuting the film a day earlier. Here is everything we know about the upcoming movie:
Plot
According to the movie’s official synopsis: ‘A 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets.’
The housewife is Pugh’s Alice, shacked up in an ‘idyllic experimental community’ in the California desert with husband Jack (Styles). Everything seems pretty sweet: the neighbourhood is Wallpaper*-stylish, money is everywhere and the sex is loud enough to disturb the neighbours.
But the elephant in the room is Jack’s employer, the company that built the community, and specifically his work on a mysterious wheeze called the Victory Project. Alice soon suspects that something sinister is afoot at her hubbie’s workplace. She’s also experiencing some rather nightmarish visions involving demonic ballerinas, empty eggshells, masks of cellophane and her own drowning.
The more suspicious she gets, the more gaslit she finds herself – hence, perhaps, the movie’s title – placing her at odds with Jack’s boss, Frank, played by Chris Pine with shit-eating smirk and cult-leader charisma. ‘I’ve been waiting for someone like you. Someone to challenge me,’ he purrs at one point. ‘Like a good girl.
Cast
Besides Styles and Pugh, the movie features Chris Pine, Gemma Chan, Nick Kroll, and Timothy Simons.
The mind behind ‘Don’t Worry Darling’?
The film was first announced back in August 2019 after the script, based on a story idea by Dick Van Dyke’s grandsons Carey and Shane Van Dyke, and co-written by Booksmart’s Katie Silberman, sparked a major studio bidding war. Wilde’s involvement, fresh from Booksmart, fuelled the interest, and having Style’s name on the poster will only fan those flames.
