Verity: Five things to know about Anne Hathaway’s latest movie

1. Verity , starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson, is being released in UK cinemas on Friday, 2 October .
2. The latest Colleen Hoover adaptation, directed by Michael Showalter, centres around Hathaway as Verity Crawford – a successful crime writer, who becomes incapacitated following a mysterious accident.
3. Lowen Ashleigh (Johnson) is taken on by Verity to finish her latest book, with lines quickly becoming crossed as Lowen moves into Verity’s home.
4. Writing for The Independent , Jacob Stolworthy said : “The film is best viewed as a love letter to mid-sized studio films depicting very attractive Hollywood A-listers mired in convoluted plots of sex and violence: Fatal Attraction , Basic Instinct , Single White Female.”
5. Verity was originally published by Hoover in 2018, with the author’s other works including the It Ends with Us series.

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