No one thinks much of Eileen. The mousy young secretary at a juvenile detention center played by Thomasin McKenzie in William Oldroyd’s deliciously twisted psychosexual thriller Eileen has spent her entire life being overlooked by her bitter co-workers, her alcoholic father, and even by herself. And in her anonymous New England small town where the people are as frigid as the icy, unforgiving weather, it seems unlikely anything will ever change. That is, until the glamorous new prison psychologist Rebecca (Anne Hathaway, relishing the chance to play the most femme of femme fatales) arrives to shake up the town — and Eileen’s life.
