Jessie Buckley follows her dramatic triumph in Hamnet in a bold new direction: a singing, dancing Bride of Frankenstein in the gangster age.
Forced to hide from a hostile public in 1930s Chicago, artificial human “Frank” asks his creator for a companion, finding one in a recently-murdered young woman. On waking up, she decides to turn the city upside down in search of justice: for both herself, and everyone in Chicago forced to hide in the shadows. Building on her own prestige breakout hit with The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal takes a familiar horror icon and builds a wildly imaginative, action-stacked, and unpredictable story around her. A top-drawer cast including Jake Gyllenhaal, Penélope Cruz, and Christian Bale keep the action believable, and Buckley relishes her new star power as the vampy, gun-toting, and irreverent immortal.
