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Get Out
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJordan Peele
Written byJordan Peele
Produced by
  • Sean McKittrick
  • Jason Blum
  • Edward H. Hamm Jr.
  • Jordan Peele
Starring
CinematographyToby Oliver
Edited byGregory Plotkin
Music byMichael Abels
Production
companies
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • January 24, 2017 (2017-01-24) (Sundance)
  • February 24, 2017 (2017-02-24) (United States)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4.5 million[1]
Box office$177.1 million[1]

Get Out is a 2017 American comedy horror film[2][3][4] written, produced and directed by Jordan Peele, in his directorial debut. The film stars Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root and Catherine Keener, and follows a young interracial couple who visit the mysterious estate of the woman's parents.

Get Out premiered at Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States on February 24 by Universal Pictures.[5] The film received acclaim from critics and has grossed $177 million worldwide, against its $4.5 million budget.

Plot

A black man, Andre Hayworth, is abducted while walking through a suburb late at night. Months later, black photographer Chris Washington and his white girlfriend Rose Armitage prepare for a weekend trip to meet her parents, Dean and Missy. Upon arriving at the Armitage home, Chris meets the family's black house and grounds keepers, Walter and Georgina, and shares with Dean and Missy that his mother died in a hit-and-run when he was eleven. Missy, a psychiatrist, offers to help Chris quit smoking through hypnosis, but he declines. Rose's brother Jeremy arrives and the group has a family dinner.

That night, Chris goes outside and observes strange behavior from Walter and Georgina. Upon reentering the house, Missy invites him to sit down and begins to hypnotize him. After revealing his guilt for not calling 911 as soon as he noticed that his mother was late coming home, Chris finds himself paralyzed, and at Missy's command his consciousness falls into a void that Missy calls "the sunken place". Chris suddenly wakes up in bed and believes that the encounter was just a nightmare, but later realizes that Missy had hypnotized him to quit smoking.

Guests arrive for the Armitages' annual get-together, where various older white couples take an uncanny interest in Chris. He meets Logan King, a black guest whose bizarre demeanor and familiarity unsettles him. He calls his best friend, TSA Officer Rodney "Rod" Williams, whom he tells about his hypnosis and the unusual behavior of the black people in the area. He later tries to stealthily take a picture of Logan with his phone, but its camera flash causes Logan to freeze, suffer a nosebleed, and then hysterically yell at Chris to "Get out!" Dean claims that the flash caused Logan to have an epileptic seizure, but Chris is not convinced.

Chris and Rose go walking and he tells her how uncomfortable he feels at the party, and she agrees to leave with him that night. While they are gone, Dean holds an auction for Chris, with Jim Hudson, a blind art dealer, placing the winning bid. After returning to pack, Chris sends the picture of Logan to Rod, who recognizes Logan as Andre Hayworth, a past mutual acquaintance of theirs. Alarmed, Chris tells Rose that they need to leave immediately. As they go downstairs, the family blocks them, and Rose reveals herself as an accomplice in her family's kidnapping of Chris and numerous other black people. Chris tries to escape but is incapacitated by Missy's hypnosis.

Rod becomes concerned when Chris does not return home or answer his calls, and discovers that Andre Hayworth went missing months ago; he tries to get help from the police but is not taken seriously. Chris wakes up strapped to a chair, and learns that the family has perfected a method of pseudo-immortality in which Dean, a neurosurgeon, transplants the consciousness of his older friends and family into the bodies of young black people who have been hypnotized by Missy. Jim Hudson wants to use Chris as a host so he can regain sight, with Chris being doomed to exist in "the sunken place" for the rest of his life as Jim controls his body. When Chris asks, "Why black people?", he learns from a recording of Roman Armitage (the original patriarch of the Armitage family) that black people were chosen for their supposed physical strength but Jim states that there's multiple reasons.

Chris manages to escape the house, killing Dean, Missy, and Jeremy in the process. As he drives away in Jeremy's car, he hits Georgina and finds himself unable to leave her out of guilt for not helping his mother. He drags Georgina, who Rose reveals is a vessel for her grandmother, into the car with him before she revives and causes him to crash, killing her. Rose, armed with a rifle, and Walter catch up with Chris. Walter, who Rose reveals is a vessel for her grandfather, tackles Chris, who uses his phone to take a picture of Walter and free him from his hypnosis. Walter takes Rose's rifle and shoots her in the gut, and then himself in the head. Chris begins to strangle Rose, but cannot bring himself to kill her and stops trying just as an apparent police car pulls up. Rose cries out for help, hoping that Chris will be seen as the attacker, but the driver turns out to be Rod in a TSA vehicle. He and Chris drive away as Rose succumbs to her gunshot wound.

Cast

Keegan-Michael Key, comedy partner of Jordan Peele, has an uncredited appearance as a photo of an NCAA prospect displayed on Rose's laptop.

Production

Director Jordan Peele

The film is the directorial debut of Jordan Peele, and marks a genre shift for him, as he has traditionally worked in comedy,[6] although he has stated that he had been wanting to make a horror film for a while. He stated that the genres were similar in that "so much of it is pacing, so much of it reveals",[6] noting that he considers that comedy gave him "something of a training" for the film.[6] The Stepford Wives (1975) provided inspiration for Peele, who said "it's a horror movie but has a satirical premise."[7] As the film deals with racism, Peele has stated that the story is "very personal",[6] although he noted that "it quickly veers off from anything autobiographical."[6]

The two lead actors, Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams, were cast in November 2015,[8][9] with other roles cast between December 2015[10] and February 2016.[11][12]

The film was partially shot at Barton Academy, a historic Greek Revival school building in Mobile, Alabama.

Principal photography on the film began on February 16, 2016.[13] It filmed in Fairhope, Alabama for three weeks, followed by shooting at Barton Academy and in the Ashland Place Historic District in midtown Mobile, Alabama.[14]

Original ending

Peele originally intended for the film to end with Chris being arrested by police for the murder of Rose and her family, and intended the scene as a reflection of the realities of racism. However, by the time production had begun, several high-profile police shootings of black people had, in his words, made the situation surrounding racism "more woke," and he decided the film needed a happy ending for its lead.[15]

Soundtrack

Michael Abels composed the film's score, for which Peele wanted to have "distinctly black voices and black musical references".[16] This proved to be a challenge, as Peele found that African American music typically has what he termed "at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it".[16] At the same time, Peele also wanted to avoid having a voodoo motif.[16] The final score features Swahili voices, as well as a blues influence.[16] The Childish Gambino song "Redbone" appears at the movie's beginning.[17]

Themes

Get Out has been seen by some commentators as a satire on the dynamics of so-called "West Wing liberals",[18] who consider themselves to be allies to movements against racism, yet do more harm than good. Lanre Bakare of The Guardian commented on this, saying, "The villains here aren't southern rednecks or neo-Nazi skinheads, or the so-called 'alt-right'. They're middle-class white liberals. The kind of people who read this website. The kind of people who shop at Trader Joe's, donate to the ACLU and would have voted for Obama a third time if they could. Good people. Nice people. Your parents, probably. The thing Get Out does so well – and the thing that will rankle with some viewers – is to show how, however unintentionally, these same people can make life so hard and uncomfortable for black people. It exposes a liberal ignorance and hubris that has been allowed to fester. It's an attitude, an arrogance which in the film leads to a horrific final solution, but in reality leads to a complacency that is just as dangerous."[19]

Reception

Box office

As of April 9, 2017, Get Out has grossed $163.3 million in the United States and Canada and $13.8 million in other territories for a worldwide gross of $177.1 million, against a production budget of $4.5 million.[1]

In the United States and Canada, Get Out was released on February 24, 2017, alongside Collide and Rock Dog, and was expected to gross $20–25 million from 2,773 theaters in its opening weekend.[20] The film made $1.8 million from Thursday night previews and $10.8 million on its first day. It went on to open to $33.4 million, finishing first at the box office. 38% of the film's opening weekend audience was African American, while 35% was white, with Georgia being its most profitable market.[21] In its second weekend, the film finished in second at the box office behind new release Logan ($88.4 million), grossing $28.3 million, for a drop of 15.4%. This was above average for horror films, which tend to drop at least 60% in their second weekend.[22] In its third weekend, the film grossed $21.1 million, dropping just 25% from its previous week, and finished third at the box office behind newcomer Kong: Skull Island and Logan.[23]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 99% based on 230 reviews, with an average rating of 8.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Funny, scary, and thought-provoking, Get Out seamlessly weaves its trenchant social critiques into a brilliantly effective and entertaining horror/comedy thrill ride."[24] It is one of nine films to earn a 99% (six other films, these being The Wizard of Oz, Metropolis, Toy Story 3, Selma, L.A. Confidential, and Finding Nemo.) or 100% (two films, which are Toy Story 2 and Man on Wire.) rating with 100 or more reviews (it held a 100% approval rating after the first 139 reviews on the site were registered).[25][26] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 84 out of 100, based on 48 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[27] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale.[28]

Richard Roeper gave the film 3 1/2 stars, saying, "[T]he real star of the film is writer-director Jordan Peele, who has created a work that addresses the myriad levels of racism, pays homage to some great horror films, carves out its own creative path, has a distinctive visual style — and is flat-out funny as well."[29] Keith Phipps of Uproxx praised the cast and Peele's direction, noting: "That he brings the technical skill of a practiced horror master is more of a surprise. The final thrill of Get Out — beyond the slow-building sense of danger, the unsettling atmosphere, and the twisty revelation of what’s really going on — is that Peele’s just getting started."[30] Mike Rougeau of IGN gave the film 9/10, and wrote: "Get Out's whole journey, through every tense conversation, A-plus punchline and shocking act of violence, feels totally earned. And the conclusion is worth each uncomfortable chuckle and moment of doubt."[31] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone rated Get Out a 3.5/4, and called it: "[A] jolt-a-minute horrorshow laced with racial tension and stinging satirical wit."[32] Scott Mendelson of Forbes praised how the film captures the current zeitgeist and called it a "modern American horror classic".[33]

Accolades and Nominations

Award/Ceremony Date Category Recipient(s) or Nominee(s) Results Citations
MTV Movie/TV Awards May 7th, 2017 Movie of The Year Jordan Peele Pending [34][35]
Best Performance in a Movie Daniel Kaluuya Pending
Best Comedic Performance Lil Rel Howery Pending
Best Villain Allison Williams Pending
Best Duo Daniel Kaluuya and Lil Rel Howery Pending
Best Fight against the System Pending

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