Synopsis
Ruth Duffy is getting by on an assistant's salary at a pricey school for girls in Manhattan, managing to move beyond the trouble and loss of her teenage years. Jonny Collins is working local jobs near the Throgs Neck Bridge in the Bronx. When they cross paths after years apart, Jonny is as consumed with Ruth as he was in their high school days, and he infiltrates her life for love and profit.
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Cast
- Finn WittrockJonny Collins
- Rachel KellerRuth Duffy
- Emily MortimerNan Noble
- Scott CohenGuy Brinckerhoff
- Jessica HechtEllen Hazard
- James RansoneSteven Noble
- Andrew SchulzMitchell Mullen Vega
- Tess FrazerAshely Spradlin
- Afton WilliamsonValamy Vega
- Zarif KabierBabak Deleri
Recommendations
- 63
Movie Nation
Cochran has conjured up a caper that’s just clever enough and characters just winning enough to hold our interest long enough to be surprised at the resolution to the puzzle that she conjures up. - 58
The Film Stage
So we’re left with a problematic façade that can’t avoid tainting the thought-provoking crime mystery unfolding beneath it. - 50
RogerEbert.com
There are some interesting things going on, and some insight into New York's economic hierarchy, but the film veers off into a hard-to-believe crime heist, and, ultimately, none of it really hangs together. - 30
Los Angeles Times
Write When You Get Work doesn’t work. Not as a romance, not as a Robin Hood-tinged caper flick, not as a social commentary on racial inequity or classism, and not as a male-buddy picture — all elements director Stacy Cochran attempts to wedge into her often muddled, under-focused script. - 25
TheWrap
With zero romance and nonsensical thrills, the only legitimate theft here is of the viewer’s time. - 20
The New York Times
Neither remotely credible nor more than minimally entertaining, Stacy Cochran’s New York City romance, Write When You Get Work, presents rich folk as gullible idiots and blue-collar crooks as heroes.