Guess who’s coming to dinner? When Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) accompanies girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) for a weekend in the country with her folks he’s a little nervous about how he will be received. She hasn’t told them he’s Black, and the only African Americans in this neck of the woods are servants. Although he’s greeted warmly, as the visit unfolds he becomes increasingly concerned, even paranoid, about what they have in mind for him…
Turning white middle class fears on their head, this simple, brilliantly satiric horror film was an auspicious feature film debut from writer-director Jordan Peele, who has since given us Us and Nope — bigger, more ambitious movies, but neither quite as locked in on the zeitgeist as this one.
Peele’s perfectly tuned cast and deft camera work unleash his uproarious humor along with his political fury; with his first film, he’s already an American Buñuel.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Get Out is searing satire, with scary/comic riffs on slavery and assimilation, but it’s also a smashing crowd-pleaser of a horror film …
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice
The screenplay is a masterpiece of subversion, laced with race-based fears and notions of stereotype that are played for laughs, but hit home.
Liz Braun, Toronto Sun
Jordan Peele
Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener, Caleb Landry Jones
USA
2017
English
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Credits
Screenwriter
Jordan Peele
Cinematography
Toby Oliver
Editor
Gregory Plotkin
Original Music
Michael Abels
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