12/27/2023 0 Comments Ready or not cast![]() ![]() ![]() The whole family has gathered for Alex’s wedding to Grace (Samara Weaving). Now they’re fabulously wealthy, and the current patriarch Tony (Henry Czerny) and his wife Becky (Andie MacDowell) live in the sprawling estate, while their children Melanie (Melanie Scrofano), Daniel (Adam Brody), and Alex (Mark O’Brien) have moved on to lives, spouses, and children of their own. The house is occupied by the Le Domas family, whose fortune was made on games - first they sold playing cards, during the Civil War, followed by more games and trinkets in subsequent generations. ![]() It’s the perfect sort of house in which to play hide-and-seek. Touches like servants’ passageways and dumbwaiters are preserved throughout. Ready or Not is a good old-fashioned satirical revenge fantasy, set in one of those creaky historic mansions with fantastic, expansive, obsessively manicured grounds. Ready or Not takes its name from a game, an amusement for children, but it has something to say about some very grown-up concerns. In the end, it’s a fantasy of comeuppance - a bloody, manic one with plenty of weaponry and gore to go around and a determined heroine (or maybe an avenging angel) at its center. Now the chase is on in earnest.Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark He brings Grace her pair of high top chucks, and tells her to put them on so she can escape. Luckily Alex finds her and helps her get focused. Now she understands that the threats are very real with the family members armed with weapons from the game room. She is shocked when she sees Emilie kill one of the household maids, mistaking her for Grace. She hides out in a dumbwaiter after being given 100 counts head start, but tires of hiding there after a while and hides behind a bed in one of the bedrooms. At first Grace doesn’t take the game or the threat against her seriously. As is typical is this genre of film, each family member has quirks and problems like alcoholism, snobbishness, drug addiction, and being a whiner. Only Alex and his brother Daniel (Adam Brody) seem to be on her side. Now Grace finds herself pitted against Alex’s father Tony (Henry Czerny), his mother Becky (Andie MacDowell), his sister-in-law Charity (Elyse Levesque), his sister Emilie Bradley (Melanie Scrofano) and her husband Fitch (Kristian Bruun) and Aunt Helene (Nicky Guadagni). This scenario was all set up generations ago by Victor de Domas who made a deal with another man named Le Bail who helped him acquire all of his wealth. If the family fails to do this, they will all die. Of course Grace ends up picking that card, and what was initially a happy occasion turns into Grace having to fight for her survival against de Lomas family members and their servants who are determined to kill her before dawn, which are the rules of the game. That would be great if the game is chess or checkers, but there is one game called Hide and Seek that involves a struggle to the death if that card is drawn. It seems simple enough the new bride or groom must chose a card and play that game against family members. Eager to go on her honeymoon with Alex, instead she learns that the de Lomas family has an initiation rite that must be completed on the wedding night of a new family member. But entering a wealthy family as an outsider has its downside, as Grace learns after her wedding. Although Alex has been estranged from his family for many years, Grace insists that they go back to his family home to have their wedding because she is desperate to have a family in her life after being on her own most of her life. Growing up as a foster child with no family, she has fallen in love with Alex le Domas (Mark O’Brien), who comes from a very wealthy family. Young bride Grace (Samara Weaving) thinks she has it made. ![]() Grace must take on the le Domas family on her wedding night. ![]()
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