Fair Play – Movie Review
Director: Chloe Domont
Writer: Chloe Domont (Screenplay)
Cast
- Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton)
- Alden Ehrenreich (Oppenheimer)
- Eddie Marsan (The World’s End)
- Rich Sommer (The Devil Wears Prada)
- Sebastian De Souza (Lapwing)
Plot: An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple’s relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel far more than their recent engagement.
Runtime: 1 Hour 53 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Fair Play starts when Emily (Dynevor) and Luke (Ehrenreich) get engaged and plan their lives together. They work together, and Luke is on the verge of a big promotion at the hedge fund company. However, Emily’s work hasn’t gone unnoticed by their boss Campbell (Marsan).
Emily gets the promotion and as the couple must keep their relationship secret, they find the change in dynamic difficult to manage. Luke begins to get jealous of Emily’s success, as she learns more about what the office thinks of him.
Verdict on Fair Play
Fair Play is a thriller following a couple who keep their relationship secret in a hedge fund company. However, when Emily gets the promotion Luke expected, their relationship ends up on the ropes, showing the power of control.
This movie takes us into the world of cutthroat hedge funders. It follows a couple trying to keep their relationship secret as one gets a promotion the other expects to get. This dives into the problems a relationship can have when the dynamic takes over the relationship. While it portrays the career world as the biggest problem. It ends up focusing more on the relationship. We never get enough to show how the career world operates and walks all over people, instead of helping people. In the end, they end up going down a dangerous path without enough focus on what they want in life.
Where to Watch: Fair Play is available on Netflix now.
Final Thoughts – Fair Play shows the deadly world of hedge fund company and relationships.