Synopsis
After losing her waitressing job, Katie Franklin takes a job as a caretaker to a wealthy elderly man in his sprawling, empty Chicago estate. The two grow close, but when he unexpectedly passes away and names Katie as his sole heir, she and her husband Adam are pulled into a complex web of lies, deception, and murder. If she's going to survive, Katie will have to question everyone's motives — even the people she loves.
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Cast
- Camila MendesKatie
- Jessie T. UsherAdam
- Jamie ChungJulia Byron Lee
- Cam GigandetMickey Hayden
- Sasha AlexanderDetective Chesler
- Elliott GouldLeonard
- Michael P. NortheyGeorge Calvern
- Sean Owen RobertsRay Gaskin
- Trevor LernerReggie Farrow
- Joe CostaDwight
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Working from a clever if occasionally convoluted screenplay by David Golden, director Michael M. Scott has fashioned a classic cautionary tale about two seemingly good and smart people who make some dumb decisions when greed and opportunity come knocking. - 64
Polygon
Director Michael Scott, working in a moody color palette that often makes the movie look like an extended episode of Riverdale, keeps the surprises coming at a pace that ensures no one will think too hard about the fact that there aren’t really any clues to follow. The pleasure of Dangerous Lies isn’t finding out whodunit, but simply yelling, “What?” at your screen as increasingly unbelievable twists play out. - 63
RogerEbert.com
It might be kind of tedious, kind of sloppy, and mostly silly, but you could never accuse Dangerous Lies of false advertising. The new Netflix thriller, directed by Michael M. Scott, is practically designed for rainy day viewers who initially laugh at the title, and that’s not a bad thing. - 60
The Guardian
It’s pacy enough to secure at least our divided attention, competently trotting along in the background revealing surprises that aren’t really that surprising, like a pulpy, well-worn airplane novel that you guiltily devour in a day. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
But if you can check your brain and go along with the preposterous plotting of a mystery thriller as generic as its title, there's a certain baseline pleasure in watching the more or less wholesome young couple at its center swim in a murky cesspool of deception and death. Oh, and diamonds! - 38
Movie Nation
The end result is a thriller that doesn’t race towards a climax we figure out (finally) 20 minutes in advance, it limps there. - 25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
From its lazy title down to its yes-we-all-saw-that-coming third-act twist, Dangerous Lies offers a particularly boring kind of last-resort viewing.
