Greedy People (2024)

"Entertaining, Quirky, Coen Brothers-Like Crime Drama"

It's time for crime in a small (and somewhat eccentric) community as director Potsy Ponciroli's GREEDY PEOPLE gets a UK digital release from Signature.

Wil (Himesh Patel) moves to the small island town of Providence with his pregnant wife Paige (Lily James) to start work as a police officer. He is partnered with sweary Terry (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who reassures him that nothing of note ever happens in the town and that Wil should find a hobby, when Wil's not looking out for the Chinese businessman husband of the woman Terry is seeing.

When an emergency call from Virginia (Traci Lords) leads to Wil accidentally causing her death, followed by Wil and Terry discovering a wicker basket full of money at her house, the two decide to cover up the crime and keep the money. But that money was there for a reason, one which is going to lead to quite a few more deaths before the entire, complicated plot is resolved.

Originally titled THE PROBLEM WITH PROVIDENCE, like some of the movies of Joel and Ethan Coen, GREEDY PEOPLE starts off light and eccentric, with some laugh out loud moments, but gets darker and darker as the plot goes on. Gordon-Levitt is especially good as the policeman with a monstrous side lurking beneath a lackadaisical veneer. It's no FARGO but if you liked that and are in the mood for something similar this will pass the time very satisfactorily indeed. Here's the trailer:

GREEDY PEOPLE is out on Digital from Signature Entertainment on Monday 23rd September 2024