In 2018, Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, and Henry Golding starred in Paul Feig’s adaptation of Darcey Bell’s 2017 bestseller, A Simple Favor, which told the story of an unlikely suburban friendship between a single mommy blogger, Kendrick’s Stephanie Smothers, and her glamorous and enigmatic neighbor, Emily Nelson, played by Lively, who vanishes suddenly, leading to an intriguing mystery for Stephanie to solve.
Feig also directs Another Simple Favor, once again starring Kendrick and Lively, but this time, it moves the story to Capri, Italy where Emily is getting married to a handsome Italian man, and she convinces Stephanie to be her reluctant maid-of-honor. As expected, things don’t go so well, as people start to die around the duo.
Cinema Daily US’s Edward Douglas has recorded a video review analyzing the sequel, and you can watch that above to find out whether he felt the sequel lived up to the popular original movie or not.
Rating: B-
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Director: Paul Feig
Screenwriter: Jessica Sharzer, Laeta Kalogridis
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Allison Janney, Henry Golding, Andrew Rannells, Alex Newell, Aparna Nancherla, Bashir Salahuddin
Producer: Paul Feig, Laura Fischer, Brenda Gilbert
Production Co: Amazon MGM Studios, BRON Studios, Feigco Entertainment, Lionsgate
Distributor: Amazon MGM
Rating: R (Violence|Some Sexuality|Language)
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Comedy
Language: English, Italian
Release Date (Prime Video): May 1, 2025
Runtime: 2 hours
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