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Greedy People (2024)

Comedy | 112 minutes
2,79 56 votes

Genre: Comedy / Crime

Duration: 112 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Potsy Ponciroli

Stars: Himesh Patel, Lily James and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

IMDb score: 6,2 (14.555)

Releasedate: 23 August 2024

Greedy People plot

"Finder$. Keeper$."

The eccentric residents of a small, picturesque island town are confronted with a sensational murder. They also have to deal with the news when a million dollars are discovered. A series of increasingly bad decisions rock the once peaceful community, leaving several people plotting and plotting to stay alive as the body count rises.

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scorsese

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Reasonable film in which a police officer imagined his first day in a new town differently. An entertaining plot with more than enough developments. A bit over the top characters that are entertainingly portrayed by the cast. Not very original or innovative and the ending is also a bit disappointing.

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filmkul

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Reasonably successful crime comedy. The story is slightly absurd and is quite nicely constructed. The execution is quite successful. The structure is good and the story gets out of hand nicely during the playing time. The film has a number of funny characters who are well attuned to each other. The film is a smooth watch. The acting is fine. It is not all super special or brilliant, but just nicely entertaining. 3.5

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Collins

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I previously saw Old Henry (2021) by director Potsy Ponciroli. A western of the quiet kind in which the encounter with a stranger escalates. Greedy People is not a western and is not necessarily a quiet film. Yet there are similarities. Greedy People also tells a story that escalates step by step. And now too, money fuels greed in people and greed is the reason for strange behavior.

In Old Henry it didn't really explode until the end. In Greedy People Ponciroli takes his foot off the brake much earlier. After a short introduction in which the characters are introduced, the pace is there. The film is a farcical film that exaggerates things just a little bit more than in real life. That concerns the improbable events in the story and that concerns the unrealistic behavior of the characters.

It results in a film that jumps from one absurd situation to the next, where a connection can always be made with the actions of individual characters and the ripple effect of these on other characters. Quite amusing. Also amusing is the interaction between Bill (Himesh Patel), who is a police officer (and one of the few normal characters) and his partner Terry (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Their personalities contrast quite a bit and that is quite humorous. Once that contradiction of the characters has been played out somewhat in a humorous sense, other characters come more to the fore and the film generally emphasizes the ripple effect. And hey, that also makes for amusing viewing.

It's not all that profound, but the story is nicely constructed. Greedy People is not very original and conceptually makes clever use of similar films. I didn't find it very disturbing. The recognizable concept probably ensures that the film will not linger in the memory for long. As a snapshot, however, Greedy People is entertaining.

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