Where Is Kyra 2017

    This film is also titled Deceit.  Kyra is living with her elderly mother in an apartment in Brooklyn, New York.  Her marriage has dissolved, she loses her job and she struggles to make ends meet on her mother’s income.  Her mother passes away and the wrong social security number is on the death certificate.  Kyra doesn’t have the money to correct the certificate.  She starts posing as her mother to cash her mother's pension checks at the bank.  She is setting herself up on a risky path!!  She meets a former friend Doug at a bar and he’s trying to help her.

     There are a LOT of dark scenes in this film?  It’s not just the plot but many shots are muddy and dark.  It’s difficult to clearly see what is happening?  In the beginning, I didn’t know if Kyra was actually posing as her mother?  2 1/2* (This movie is so-so)

 

98 min, Drama directed by Andrew Dosunmu with Michelle Pfeiffer, Kiefer Sutherland, Suzanne Shepherd, Anthony Okungbowa, Babs Olusanmokun, Stella Schnabel, Angela Pietropinto, Elizabeth Evans, Sam Robards, Rutanya Alda, Henry Yuk, Bradley W. Anderson.

Note  Imdb 5.7 out of 10, 81% critic 55% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3 ½*, Metacritic 72 out of 100 with 20 critics 7 out of 10 with 10 reviews, Rolling Stone 3 ½ out of 4*, Amazon 2.8* out of 5* with 42 reviews.

Special Note:  This film was shot in 18 days.  The original title was Beat-Up Little Seagull.  This is a lyric taken from the Nina Simone song Baltimore.  Partially filmed on location at Gotham Thrift Shop in Ridgewood Queens, New York.  Usually Pfeiffer is a blonde but she appears as a brunette in this film.  She was also a brunette in Married to the Mob 1988, Up Close and Personal 1996 and New Year's Eve 2011.