‘I'm Your Woman’: Release date, cast, plot, trailer and all you need to know about Rachel Brosnahan’s crime drama
If you love ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’ and crime dramas, Rachel Brosnahan’s ‘I'm Your Woman’ is your best bet! The film revolves around a suburban housewife Jean who lives a seemingly easy life, supported by husband Eddie’s (Bill Heck) career as a thief. But when Eddie betrays his partners, Jean and her baby are forced to go on the run, and Eddie’s old friend Cal (Arinzé Kene) is tasked with keeping them safe.
After Cal mysteriously disappears, Jean befriends his wife Teri (Marsha Stephanie Blake) and the two women set out on a perilous journey into the heart of Eddie’s criminal underworld. A decidedly female take on crime dramas of the 1970s, ‘I'm Your Woman’ is a tale of love, betrayal, motherhood — and what it takes to claim your life as your own.
The neo-noir crime drama first had its world premiere at AFI Fest on October 15, 2020. AFI Festivals director Michael Lumpkin said, “Now more than ever it is important for film festivals to create a platform for audiences to discover great films, and ‘I’m Your Woman’ is cinematic storytelling at its best,” adding, “With a captivating and complex narrative of a woman on the run, director and writer Julia Hart takes us on an unexpected journey that speaks directly to the current state of our world and the real meaning of friendship, love and family.”
Talking about the movie, Julia Hart said, “I love those movies in spite of the fact that none of the protagonists represent me.” She added, “The stars are all men, mostly white men. And then you have all these formidable actresses playing very small roles: Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Teresa Wright, Ali MacGraw, and then when the action gets going, they get kicked out of the movie because the men don’t think they can handle it. The moment the door closes in Diane Keaton’s face in ‘The Godfather’. The moment Tuesday Weld gets in the car in ‘Thief’. Sure it’s cool to watch the man go take care of business, but I just always found myself wanting to follow the woman. Where is she going? What’s going to happen to her? And since I never got to see that in those movies, I just decided to make that movie myself.”
Release date
Rachel Brosnahan’s crime drama ‘I'm Your Woman’ opened at the AFI Fest during its 34th edition on October 15-22. It was released in a limited release on December 4, 2020, followed by Prime Video on December 11, 2020, by Amazon Studios.
Plot
When her husband Eddie goes on the run, suburban housewife Jean (Rachel Brosnahan) is left behind with an infant, a bag of cash and instructions to go wherever Eddie’s associate Cal (Arinzé Kene) takes her. Whisked away to a nondescript safe house, Jean waits for her husband to return for her with only the baby and a sympathetic neighbor (Marceline Hugot) for company. But when Eddie’s assailants track her down and a deadly gunfight ensues, she finds herself on the run again.
Cal takes Jean and the baby to a remote cabin where they are joined by Cal’s wife Teri (Marsha Stephanie Blake), his father (Frankie Faison) and Cal and Teri’s young son Paul (Da’Mauri Parks). Confused, terrified and cut off from anything familiar, Jean learns shocking secrets about her missing husband. When Cal also mysteriously disappears, Jean and Teri set out on a perilous journey into the heart of Eddie’s criminal underworld on a desperate quest to protect their loved ones.
A decidedly female take on the classic crime dramas of the 1970s, filled with impeccable period detail, ‘I'm Your Woman’ tells the story of one woman’s struggle to survive in a dangerous new world.
Cast
Rachel Brosnahan
Best known for her role in ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’, Rachel Brosnahan has won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2018 and two consecutive Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2018 and 2019.
The 30-year-old made her debut in the horror film ‘The Unborn’ (2009) and was then seen in movies like ‘Beautiful Creatures’ (2013), ‘Louder Than Bombs’ (2015), ‘The Finest Hours’ (2016), and ‘Patriots Day’ (2016). She will play the role of Jean in the movie.
Frankie Faison
Set to portray the character of Art in ‘I'm Your Woman’, the 71-year-old is known for his role as Deputy Commissioner Ervin Burrell in the HBO series ‘The Wire’, Barney Matthews in the ‘Hannibal Lecter’ franchise, and as Sugar Bates in the Cinemax series ‘Banshee’.
Marsha Stephanie Blake
Marsha Stephanie Blake will be seen as Teri in the movie. She played Linda McCray in the Netflix miniseries ‘When They See Us’ and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. The actress is known for her roles in ‘The Merchant of Venice’, ‘Come and Gone’, ‘The Crucible’, ‘An Octoroon’, and ‘Hurt Village’ and TV shows like ‘Law & Order’, ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’, ‘Third Watch’, ‘Elementary’, ‘Orange is the New Black’ and ‘The Good Wife’.
The film also stars Arinzé Kene as Cal, Bill Heck as Eddie, Frankie Faison as Art, Marceline Hugot as Evelyn and James McMenamin as White Mike.
Creators
Julia Hart
Directed by Julia Hart, ‘I’m Your Woman’ is set during the 1970s and follows a woman who is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his business partners, sending her and her baby on a dangerous journey. A screenwriter and director, she first started her career at 25 and began teaching high school students. After eight years of teaching, she quit her job to pursue screenwriting and stepped into the world of filmmaking with her directorial debut in ‘Miss Stevens’. She is known for her work on ‘Miss Stevens’ (2016), ‘Fast Color’ (2018) and ‘Stargirl’ (2020).
She also penned down the film ‘I’m Your Woman’ along with Jordan Horowitz. Horowitz and Brosnahan produced the film and it was distributed by Amazon Studios. The director of photography is ‘Stargirl’ fame Bryce Fortner. The production designer is Gae S, editors are Shayar Bhansali and Tracey WadmoreSmith and the costumes were designed by Natalie O’Brien. Victor L Jones-Moore was the hair department head, Darylin Nagy the make-up department head. While the original music was by Aska Matsumiya, the music supervisor was Dan Wilcox.
Trailer
“In this 1970s set crime drama, a woman is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners, sending her and her baby on a dangerous journey,” the caption of the two-minute 35-second trailer reads.
Viewers are intrigued to watch the movie. “The dark version of ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’ looks good,” one fan said and another posted, “I was hoping this was a series instead of a movie but it looks good.” A third wrote, “Saw this at AFI Fest. Very smart and engrossing film about female empowerment. I think it could be a surprise hit for Amazon.”
Catch the video here:
Where to watch
The two-hour film had its world premiere at the AFI Fest on October 15, 2020. It was released in a limited release on December 4, 2020, followed by Prime Video on December 11, 2020, by Amazon Studios.
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