Don't Worry Darling

Don't Worry Darling

Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why.

  • Released: 2022-09-22
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thrillers
  • Stars: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, KiKi Layne, Gemma Chan, Nick Kroll, Douglas Smith, Kate Berlant, Ari'el Stachel, Asif Ali, Timothy Simons, Sydney Chandler, Alisha Heng, Wylie Quinn Anderson, Mariah Justice, Michelle Ells, Marcello Julian Reyes, Daniel Nishio, Venice Wong, Dita Von Teese, Monroe Cline, Kurt Scholler, Anna Tenney, Ali Starr Goebel, Natasha Luna, Trevor Hooper, Samantha Sookdeosingh, Ebru, Kaleigh Krause, Kate Ellie Fitzgerald, Mario White, Anthony Soto, Nataly Santiago, Natasha Kalimada, Charissa Kroeger, Alexandra Nicole Hulme, Brooke deRosa, Hal Rosenfeld, Connor Ryan
  • Director: Olivia Wilde
 Comments
  • mattschurenko - 17 June 2024
    Incredibly boring
    I turned this off after 35 mins as I just couldn't take it anymore. I had no interest in any of the characters and the story was not intriguing in the least. I guess it's supposed to be suspenseful but to me it was just super annoying.

    I'm not sure who this movie is for or what they were trying to accomplish. Maybe they didn't know either?

    It's one of those movies that you think have to get better but it just dragged on and on (and that's only watching 30 mins of it). I think they might have been living in a simulation or something but I didn't really care to try and figure out as it was just really dumb.
  • hairspray-94398 - 12 May 2024
    Should have better ratings..
    This is such a well thought out movie with great cinematography, acting, plot.... The twist is perfect and it depicts society spot on, so it is weird to me that people didn't like it. Harry Styles does a great jo opposite Florence Pugh, who is amazing. His depiction is cringy, as it should be and it encapsulates the fact that he is indeed also acting in front of his wife, trying to hide the world from her. She does a great job of portraying the emotions of a 60-ish housewife and the struggles that came with that for so many women.. All in all the movie is great and it honestly doesn't deserve the "hate" some people are giving it and its actors.. I will say this: If you are not a fan of sci-fi and almost exclusively enjoy action-packed movies or rom-coms, this is not for you and you might not be as thrilled about it as I was..
  • thalassafischer - 10 March 2024
    About 100 Times Better Than Barbie
    Don't Worry Darling addresses the difficult issues of red pills (appropriately dressed in ruddy tracksuits), incels (good lord that tap dance scene), and real world misogyny with the same duality of "perfect world" versus "real world" counterparts as in the more recent and over-hyped toy commercial that is the Barbie movie. But it gets so much more right.

    It's extremely disappointing to me that this effort from director Olivia Wilde met such mixed critical reception, but leave it to sexist white men to be mad a movie exposed the wet dream of every alt-right passport bro on the Internet, and that it ended badly for them with women freeing themselves from the simulation they created to take control.

    This movie was excellent, all the way down to how bad Jack looked in real life. Chefs kiss to this feminist take on the era of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
  • Vanessydelg - 9 January 2023
    Stepford wives online
    The atmosphere the movie builds during the third first parts of the movie is not enough to compensate for the disappointment caused by the last part. Did Alice (the name choice is not random) really wake up or did she continue to dream ab aeternum? Was she disposed of?

    It's not a happy coincidence that Victory is a neighbourhood set in the fifties, when women's choices were limited to what to cook in the kitchen, always carrying a broad smile. Olivia Wilde is trying to tell us something Stepford wives told us many years ago. In this movie, men replaced their complaining, unsatisfied wives with perfectly built robots copying them, though deprived of free will and entirely submissive to their husbands. It also took place in a suburb somewhere, with a cofrady of men behind the whole scheme.

    In DWD the story happens while the characters are hooked online. Without Alice's approval, she is submitted into a deep dream where she is supposed to obey the rules, be sexy, a good housewife and supportive of her husband's secret work.

    But the real struggle is not only finding out that she has been forced to dream of an alternate reality. The real struggle would be waking up and escaping the facilities in which she is tied up to a bed. And that is not showed to us. We just hear her gasp, and the screen goes dark. Now her struggle for survival is entirely hers and we aren't supposed to care about that anymore.

    The movie seems to only want something from us: to accompany Alice during the process of realising that she is dreaming a dream made up by someone else and forced upon her.

    As an allegory, we got it. Most of us have already woken up a long time ago. How to survive after that is the issue. But Olivia chooses not to show us that part. Perhaps because it's a fase that none of us has been able to finish yet.

    The message succeeded in being put through. But the plot died there, where the message was conveyed.

    All in all, the political idea was decent but it overtook part of the plot leaving it's essence a tad unnourished. The female victim that tries to escape has been overtaken by the heroic women who face reality in many other movies. I prefer those ones and they represent me more.
  • yenifercastillo - 5 January 2023
    People are so extra!!
    I literally knew nothing about this movie exept there was drama making it with the actors and Olivia I hadn't even seen a trailer for or just randomly decided to watch it on HBO but when I saw it I honestly enjoyed it. Reminded of a black mirror episode just longer which I love I kinda wish it would have been longer to know more of the background story and other characters life's before they ended up there. The ending kinda sucked but I'm just not a fan of those types of endings that leave you wondering or making up an ending of your choice but other wise it was a good movie to watch kept me entertained. I would recommend 👍🏼
  • catelynmj - 1 January 2023
    So much potential
    So much potential with the cast, the story, the cinematography. I love Florence Pugh and was so excited to see her in another thriller. The story hooked me because and I love a utopian 1950s setting. But my gosh... it was bad. I really wanted to like it and the whole time I was waiting for something to prove the bad reviews wrong. I kept going on thinking that maybe there would be a perfectly done twist or turn. However, everything was painfully obvious. Clearly the writing was off because even these amazing actors came across poorly. I am sad to see Florence Pugh wasted in this one. Save yourself the time and skip this one.
  • tobydammit-2 - 27 December 2022
    Utterly failed attempt to update The Stepford Wives (1975)
    Utterly failed attempt to update The Stepford Wives (1975) As one of the other reviewers here put it mildly, "It builds intrigue, then wastes it." LOL! More like it builds intrigue for an eternity pointlessly provoking feminist ire, then jumps off a cliff flipping the the bird to the audience by not providing any rational explanation for how the protagonist Florence Pugh got into this dystopian nightmare (Was she forced?) and fails to offer closure on her ultimate fate! Terrible, confusing editing shows the filmmaker couldn't decide what she was trying to do. Florence Pugh and Harry Styles are gorgeous to behold and watching them simulate hot sex was delicious eye candy, but there's no movie here! Glad I didn't pay to see this.
  • holdendani - 22 December 2022
    Amazing cinematography, great visuals, good acting, decent story
    In short: Metaphores and visual representation: 10/10 - awesome job. Rare to see a movie use this well of visual elements (like Get out for example) Camera work, cutting: 10/10 also - interesting angles, good pace Set design and costumes: 10/8.5 - probably not everything is true 50s style but even if not it could work story-wise. Not an expert, they sold me on 50s America Acting: 10/7 - Not sure if anyone deserves an Oscar, but overall everyone did a pretty good job. Loved Pugh's play and Style was good too Story: 10/5 - OK story. Some parts were a bit unecessary or didn't fit totally with the rest. Used some cliches and borrowed some ideas, but it was an OK story altogether. If the other parts weren't this good I'd have watch this still...but it's not the strongest suit of the movie.

    I'd recommend this movie to anyone who isn't against fiction/thriller. You shouldn't expect classic thriller, lacks some of the elements, but has tension (mostly by visuals and sounds)
  • Boristhemoggy - 17 December 2022
    Don't worry Darling if you missed this, you missed nothing
    My 1st thought, Olivia Wilde has been sexy in the past. My 2nd thought, Florence Pugh is great in everything she has done so far. My 3rd thought, Harry Styles? Really?

    So I started watching it and the very first thing you notice is that the dialogue is appalling. It really is like half heard conversations of people gossiping at a boring garden party with nothing much said really. Sometimes I never even heard the dialogue as I shut off from it's monotony.

    The acting? Florence was great. Olivia was mediocre, Harry was awful, Chris Pine rivalled Florence Pugh. I suspect Harry as awful because Olivia can't direct. But Chris and Florence need no directing as they're both competent actors.

    The set and photography were sumptuous but the entire story...hmmm. It felt a little like someone's take on Stepford Wives, but really badly done and quite confusing.

    I fast forwarded it to the end from about the 1/3 mark, and gave it a 3 just for Florence Pugh alone. It's utter drivel as a story.
  • isaacmizrahii - 10 December 2022
    Unfortunately, the negative reviews are right this time...
    Unfortunately, the negative reviews are right this time... there's an amount of this film that's visually stunning...lots of the right dynamics are in place, but... it's like a long joke that promises a whopper of a punch line and then... doesn't even come close to delivering...i think a lot of viewers realize this somewhere(and we're not talking all that far) along the way in the movie... i began to notice it spinning its wheels no further than halfway through... that was my 'i'm getting worried' point. Because i noticed that there was a good setup, but no noticeable development... and endings, as i've said to many people before, are difficult.

    But a not satisfying ending is easy.

    Consider yourself forewarned...