A Simple Favor (2018) on Netflix
R20181h 57mComedyCrimeMysteryThriller
Stephanie, a widowed mom, runs a parenting vlog and befriends Emily, a PR director with a son in her son's class. Emily asks her to collect Nicky, then vanishes, and Stephanie investigates.
- Netflix3.4/5
- IMDb6.7/10191,978 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes84%
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Plot summary
Stephanie Smothers volunteers at her son Miles's school in Connecticut and films craft and recipe videos for a vlog aimed at mothers. She meets Emily Nelson, an upper-class public relations director for a fashion company, whose son Nicky is Miles's best friend. The two begin meeting for afternoon martinis and swap secrets; Emily complains that her husband Sean, an English professor, has written nothing since his first book and that the family is close to bankruptcy. One afternoon Emily calls Stephanie and asks a simple favor: collect Nicky from school, since Sean is in London visiting his injured mother. Emily never returns, and Emily's office tells Stephanie only that she flew to Miami, which she had not mentioned to anyone. Stephanie begins digging into where her friend has gone.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Simple Favor (2018)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Blake Lively deleted every picture from her Instagram account in May 2018 to promote A Simple Favor, then the first teaser trailer arrived the next day.
- A Simple Favor was shot in the Univisium 2.00:1 aspect ratio using Panavision Millennium DXL 8K cameras, with principal photography starting August 14, 2017 in Toronto.
- Before the novel A Simple Favor was even published, 20th Century Fox bought the film rights in January 2016, pitching the story as similar to Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train.
