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‘Honey Don’t!’ Review: Margaret Qualley Is Back, with Even More Panache, in the ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Companion Piece No One Asked For. But It’s Throwaway Fun
Margaret Qualley is back, with even more panache, in the 'Drive-Away Dolls' companion piece no one asked for. But it's throwaway fun.
In “Drive-Away Dolls,” Qualley played a very different character: an erotic libertine named Jamie who talked a mile a minute (her screwball style was an analog of her libido — always on the move), and who got drawn into a caper that was knowingly preposterous (it revolved around a suitcase full of oversize dildos). Honey O’Donoghue is a more buttoned-down character, and the new film has a different tone, less loony tunes and more straight-up neo-noir, with a small-town scuzziness that’s established in the opening credits, where all the names are niftily embedded in the signage of Bakersfield’s dilapidated stores and restaurants. The plot, once again, targets the hypocrisy of Middle America — in this case, the Four Way Temple, a local church that opens itself up to troubled parishioners, all so that its leader, the Reverend Drew (Chris Evans), is kept supplied with a ready flock of vulnerable young women he can dress up in S&M regalia and bed down with at will.
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