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Viper Club is a 2018 American drama film directed by Maryam Keshavarz and starring Susan Sarandon. The film was produced by YouTube Premium in association with CounterNarrative and MaraKesh Films and held its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2018. The film was released theatrically in the United States on October 26, 2018.

Viper Club
Directed by	Maryam Keshavarz
Written by	Maryam Keshavarz Jonathan Mastro
Produced by	Anna Gerb Neal Dodson J. C. Chandor
Starring	Susan Sarandon Matt Bomer Lola Kirke Julian Morris Sheila Vand Adepero Oduye Edie Falco
Cinematography	Drew Daniels
Edited by	Andrea Chignoli
Music by	Gingger Shankar
Production companies	CounterNarrative MaraKesh Films
Distributed by	YouTube Premium Roadside Attractions
Release dates	September 10, 2018 (2018-09-10) (TIFF) October 26, 2018 (2018-10-26) (United States)
Running time	109 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Premise

Viper Club follows "a veteran emergency room nurse secretly struggling to free her grown son, a journalist, from capture by a terrorist group. After running into roadblocks with government agencies, she discovers a clandestine community of journalists and advocates who might be able to help her."[1]

Cast

• Susan Sarandon as Helen
• Matt Bomer as Sam
• Lola Kirke as Amy
• Julian Morris as Andy
• Sheila Vand as Sheila
• Adepero Oduye as Keisha
• Edie Falco as Charlotte
• Paul Eenhoorn as Jim

Production

On March 21, 2018, it was announced that YouTube Red had just finished production on a film, then-titled Vulture Club, directed by Maryam Keshavarz. The film was written by Keshavarz alongside Jonathan Mastro and executive produced by Anna Gerb, Neal Dodson, and J.C. Chandor. Cast members were set to include Susan Sarandon, Edie Falco, Matt Bomer, Julian Morris, Lola Kirke, and Sheila Vand.[1][2][3]

Release

The film was distributed by Roadside Attractions and released on October 26, 2018. Following its theatrical run, the film was made available for streaming on YouTube Premium.[4][5]

On September 10, 2018, the film held its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival as a featured selection in the "Special Presentations" series of films.[6][7][8] That same day, the official trailer for the film was released.[9][10]

Controversy

Ahead of the film's release, Diane Foley, the mother of slain journalist James Foley, expressed criticism of the film. Although the production team contacted and spoke to Foley during the production process, she felt the plot of the film was inappropriate and misleading in its retelling of events from her and her late son's lives. In the process of being consulted for the film, Foley shared details about the process of locating and negotiating for the release of her son. Foley thinks that although director Maryam Keshavarz claims to have made a fictional work, she used and unfairly manipulated details of her personal life to produce a dramatic story.[11]

Reception

The film was met with a mixed to negative response from critics upon its premiere. On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 38% approval rating with an average rating of 5.1/10 based on 34 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Viper Club benefits from Susan Sarandon's committed lead performance, but a treacly script robs this geopolitical drama of any bite."[12] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the series a score of 57 out of 100 based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews."[13]

References

External links

• Viper Club at IMDb

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