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The Thriller Drop Is a Perfect Addition to the Bad-First-Date Canon
Meghann Fahy, you will always be famous.
Its heroine, Violet (Meghann Fahy), is on her first date in years with a guy named Henry (Brandon Sklenar), a solicitous dreamboat who’s unfazed by the fact that she’s a widow with a young child who had to be coaxed through three months of skittish texting before she agreed to meet up in person. Drop — the title refers to “DigiDrop,” the movie’s non-proprietary version of AirDrop — presents a digital Rube Goldberg solution to a problem that could have been more efficiently addressed by getting someone to hit Henry with a car or shove him out a window. In its liveliest stretch, Drop attaches life-and-death stakes to first-date behavior, teasing out how many odd actions — like requesting a table change and disappearing repeatedly into the bathroom — Violet can get away with before Henry cuts and runs.
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