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No, the "simple benefit" is no based on a true story; It is based on the best -selling novel with the same name from Darcy Bell, which it published in 2017. Now that we took it out of the road, What exactly is the "simple benefit?"

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Directed by Paul Feig and written by Esseca Sharzer (which, again, adapted from Bell's book), "Simple Benefits" hit theaters in 2018 with Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively at the helm a lot Different women who end up unexpectedly attracted together. Kendrick's mother and "mother blogger" and "Mother Blogger" Stephanie Smarts wears cute small socks and writes over the responsibilities of any baking sale, and Lively's fashion, Emily Nelson, is in the film in the spicy Christian. . Only Observed in red salt heels and boots.) Emily and Stephanie end up tying to too icy dry Martini-in fact, Stephanie Tells tells Emily some of her deepest, darkest secret-but Emily asks Stephanie to see her son, and then disappears.

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From this point on, "simple benefit" gets Seriously Cusaded and wild ... But thanks to the careful, clever direction of Hamg and an extremely funny scenario of Charper, not to mention the excellent chemistry between Kendrick and Lively, you can't help, but to climb (and maybe make martini in their honor). Be warned: as I get into the weeds of "simple benefit", light spoilers will follow (and if you haven't seen this movie, straighten it right away).

On her merit, Stephanie begins a complete campaign for missing faces for her new friend Emily ... but she Also It ends in a romantic intertwining with John, complicating everything. When the body is washed into the lake in the rural Michigan, which corresponds to the description of Emily and DNA - and is adorned with the John Ring John once gave it what belonged to his mother - and Stephanie and John are left to grieve, but they may both believe that they may start their two life.

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Unfortunately for Stephanie, it's no So simple. When Emily's autopsy reveals serious liver damage and heroin traces, Stephanie is growing suspicious, and it has not been helped by the fact that John recently increased Emily's life insurance in a whopping $ 4 million or The fact that Emily is now leaving Stephanie, threatening voice messages about her past. Looking for answers, Stephanie goes to see Emily's relaxed mother, Margaret (Jeanan Smart), who reveals that Emily had a sister ... a Twin sister. See Emily is not her real name; Hope McLandon was born, with twins named Vera and Charity, but the charity tragically died in its infancy, leaving her sisters.

After all, we learn that Emily sought faith - who fights heroin and alcohol addictions - and killed her sister, planting the ring so that she and John can gather their great life insurance and start a new life together. This plan changed, however, when Emily spied on John and Stephanie and realized that they were hanging out, so when Emily finally revealed to Stephanie, Stephanie and John tried to get her crimes recognition. Emily Whether Confesses and almost kills her husband and her friend ... But when she tries to escape the police, Stephanie's parent of Stephanie Elementary School, Darren (Andrew Rannels), hits her with her car, and she has been arrested and arrested. It seems to be the end of the story of Emily and Stephanie - but it is not.

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You may think Emily goes to prison for murder would mean her narrative ended, but on May 1, 2025, Paul Feig, Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, all returned to the sequel, "another simple benefit" - Although this is built on the original story and the script by Esseca Sharzer and Laeta Calogridis, because Bell did not write a sequel to her book. Five years after finishing the first film, Stephanie is on a book tour, promoting "impersonal blonde", which is obviously for Emily ... and is shockedTo say at least, when Emily broke a signing book. Fully, including Stephanie's agent, Vicki (Alex Elluell) and Darren, Emily and Tells, tells Stephanie that her excellent lawyers have been appealed and married to a rich and handsome man named Dante Versano (Michele Moron) on the Italian island of Capri. Will Stephanie, Emily wonders loud, will be a maid of honor?

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Obviously, Stephanie feels pretty sure That Emily wants revenge, but she agrees to go to Capri (mainly because, well, her book does not sell as much copies as she hoped). Everyone gathers in Capri, including the Versano family - the mother of Dante Porcia (Elena Sofia Richie) is particularly frightening and it seems that Hate Emily - John, Emily's son, Nico (Ian Joe, reproduces his role from the first film), Emily Margaret's mother (now featured by Elizabeth Perkins), and especially the possessive aunt Linda of Emily (Allison Annnani, reuniting with his excellent ". I will not actually continue to go and spoil the "other simple benefit", but this movie is a a lot crazy from the first in terms of twists; Not so much with iron dressed in its logic as the first, but still a ton of fun, and you will still want to pair it with Martini.

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The "Simple Benefits" is available to be transmitted to NetflixAnd "Another Simple Benefits" is streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Minister's video.