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The independent movie stars British-raised
actresses Anya Taylor-Joy and Olivia Cooke as upper-class
teenage girls in suburban Connecticut who rekindle a childhood
friendship after years of growing apart.
"Thoroughbreds" was originally a play written by first time
feature film director Cory Finley.
After reading the script, Cooke said, "I thought he was a woman
because I've never read characters so good and fleshed out."
Taylor-Joy, 21, had a break-out performance in 2015 horror film
"The Witch," while Cooke, 24, will next appear in Steven
Spielberg's upcoming sci-fi adventure "Ready Player One."
The film also marks the final performance by American actor
Anton Yelchin, who died in a 2016 accident in Los Angeles. He
plays Tim, a hapless drug dealer whom the girls blackmail into
becoming a hitman.
The movie, first seen at the Sundance film festival, got an 89
percent approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten
Tomatoes.
Variety called director and writer Finley "astonishingly gifted"
while the Daily Beast said the film was "terribly funny, wild as
a hell and aggressively grotesque."
(Reporting by Rollo Ross; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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