Netflix's new thriller is a glossy tale with a jagged edge: Luckiest Girl Alive
L:uckiest Girl Alive: Key Information - Adapted from Jessica Knoll's bestselling novel - Directed by Mike Barker, a veteran TV director with a long stint on The Handmaid's Tale - Knoll adapted her own novel for the screenplay - Starring Mila Kunis, Finn Wittrock and Connie Britton - Releasing on Netflix worldwide - Running time of 113 minutes “It’s 2015 and people still act like marriage is some sort of crowning achievement for women,” narrates Mila Kunis’ bride-to-be Ani Fanelli while shopping for fancy kitchen knives in the opening scene of Netflix's Luckiest Girl Alive, the latest original to roll off the streaming giant's production line. “That is a trap I did not fall into.” The fact she then envisages stabbing her future husband suggests we’re in for a marital murder tale akin to another New York Times Bestseller given the Hollywood treatment, Gone Girl . While the writer of the original novel and its adapted screenplay Jessica Knoll has freely admitt...