John Patton Ford's debut stars Aubrey Plaza as a debt-saddled woman drawn into a life of crime.
Repaying a kindness, a coworker offers to hook her up: Text this number, he says, and you can make $200 in an hour. Soon she’s part of a credit card-fraud ring, freelancing under the guidance of a compassionate-seeming man named Youcef . Though he gives out info on a need-to-know basis and there are several tough-looking characters in his shady office/warehouse, he’s always straight about each job’s risks.
Ford shows how threatening an ordinary electronics store can feel when you’re walking to the cashier with a $2,000 flatscreen and credit card that may be declined or worse. And that’s the easy part — the audition for an enterprise where dollar amounts, and physical dangers, ramp up quickly. Putting on a placid face doesn’t come easily to Emily, and Plaza burbles through countless micro-expressions as her character reevaluates interactions on the fly.
Whether thanks to an urge to get ahead or a natural attraction, she starts sleeping with Youcef, who earns her uneasy trust and ours. If only he were the sole person running this operation. But then, nice guys and nice girls don’t build crime rings. The film’s momentum is clearly pushing Emily in one direction, but the straight world beckons. There, the exploitative relationships are legal; but the people may be even less invested in her well-being than the crooks are. Gina Gershon cameos as a self-satisfied exec who, to say the least, is not offering to pay $200 for Emily’s first hour of work and more from there.
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