Millie Lies Low

2021

Comedy / Drama

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 86% · 21 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86%
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 320 320

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Plot summary

A panic attack causes Millie to miss her flight to New York. Everyone thinks she’s made it though, thanks to her fake Instagram posts from the “Big Apple”. A tragicomic hunt for a new ticket ensues, as she attempts to beat the clock, her fears and the truth.

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1 hr 40 min
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1 hr 40 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

This was just all too contrived for me

This was just all too contrived for me. “Millie” (Ana Scotney) is about to fly from Wellington to a new life in New York when she has a panic attack on the aircraft. Terrified and unable to breathe, she gets off the thing but rather than tell her folks and friends that she had a turn, she proceeds to pretend that she has actually arrived. To that end, she hits social media with chats and photographs whilst all the while hovering around her home neighbourhood without a cent to her name. Desperate, she is swiftly reduced to petty theft and living in a tent before she is recognised by someone and her lies start to spiral into something altogether more ridiculous. Scotney actually does fine here, but the story goes nowhere fast and after the initial quirkiness of the start, this just resembles a script-writers convention where they all got together and created a series of scenarios that could have come straight from a “Tom and Jerry” cartoon - only these are not particularly funny. What I did find interesting was the extent to which characters obsess about living their lives online. Most of her predicaments here are entirely due to “Millie” being incapable of stopping lying and constantly making matters worse by laying a false trail of breadcrumbs. Who cares? She comes across as a fairly selfish and uninteresting woman right from the get-go, and any attempts to get to the bottom of her anxieties are well and truly subsumed in a “badass” sea of mediocre predictability. Maybe it might work better on a big screen with an audience full of beer and good will, but otherwise it’s pretty disappointing.
Reviewed by boblipton 5 / 10

To My Surprise, Most Reviewers Consider This A Comedy

New Zealander Ana Scotney is on her way to an interview with an architectural firm in New York City. She's excited, until it turns into a panic attack on the plane and she gets off before the plane takes off. She hides out for a while, using her phone to convince people she's in New York. After a while, she sneaks back into Wellington and discovers what's really going on when she's not around.It's a slow moving non-voyage of self-discovery in 95 minutes, with moments of frantic, clumsy effort, occasional bouts of crying. And views of the less glamorous areas of Wellington. Handled differently, it might have been an amusing comedy of embarrassment. Perhaps it still is at some points, but most of it is about misery, frustration, and painful self-realization. I'm sure this will appeal to many, but it didn't speak to me.
Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

Millie Lies Low

This was just all too contrived for me. "Millie" (Ana Scotney) is about to fly from Wellington to a new life in New York when she has a panic attack on the aircraft. Terrified and unable to breathe, she gets off the thing but rather than tell her folks and friends that she had a turn, she proceeds to pretend that she has actually arrived. To that end, she hits social media with chats and photographs whilst all the while hovering around her home neighbourhood without a cent to her name. Desperate, she is swiftly reduced to petty theft and living in a tent before she is recognised by someone and her lies start to spiral into something altogether more ridiculous. Scotney actually does fine here, but the story goes nowhere fast and after the initial quirkiness of the start, this just resembles a script-writers convention where they all got together and created a series of scenarios that could have come straight from a "Tom and Jerry" cartoon - only these are not particularly funny. What I did find interesting was the extent to which characters obsess about living their lives online. Most of her predicaments here are entirely due to "Millie" being incapable of stopping lying and constantly making matters worse by laying a false trail of breadcrumbs. Who cares? She comes across as a fairly selfish and uninteresting woman right from the get-go, and any attempts to get to the bottom of her anxieties are well and truly subsumed in a "badass" sea of mediocre predictability. Maybe it might work better on a big screen with an audience full of beer and good will, but otherwise it's pretty disappointing.
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