A Simple Robbery (2020) Becky and Stacey are two friends who enjoy taking money from rich men. But tragedy strikes when a robbery doesn't go as planned.
Direction
Ridder squeezes feature-level suspense into 14 minutes.
Acting
Spearman and Marks sell reckless chemistry with zero time to waste.
Editing
Ruthless cuts—no frame survives without purpose.
Director
Blake Ridder
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Blake Ridder made this during lockdown with zero budget, shooting in his own home with friends. The narrator device was added in post to solve pacing problems.
The film inverts the 'man seduces woman for money' noir trope—then punishes the women more brutally than the genre traditionally punishes men, which critics split on as either subversive or regressive.
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