Was this written by someone with a trust fund?
So Peg is supposed to be poor with a struggling mom operating a salon at home. She gets into an Ivy League school but despite being poor and enterprising, can't get any scholarships, so she resorts to unscrupulous behavior scalping Bills tickets that gets her serious prison time. In spite of being poor and basically caught dead to rights, she hires a private lawyer, fights the case in a trial and is shocked she owes $50K or so in legal fees. Really? Who would even take her case knowing she could never pay that money back? Most people in general get lawyers pro bono or public defenders if they want to fight a charge.
She gets out of prison and her brother offers her a job at his bar because she has no other options? If her brother was poor too, how did he get this bar? Supposedly, it was their dad's all along, but who was operating it until he got old enough? Why not sell it? This is never answered. So they really weren't as badly off as we were lead to believe.
She has wanted to get out of Buffalo her entire life, but needs a small fortune to leave? That doesn't make any sense? $10K at most is probably enough to pay for rent in another city for a year where she can use her talents to find another good job quite quickly. I just don't get it. Other people just hop on a bus and say screw it. A girl like her can waitress or find a way to make it if Buffalo is so bad. NYC is not far away either, lol.
Worse yet, she keeps all her money in boxes in her house, where anyone could steal it and set her back to square one. Now, that said, I have family who are horrible deadbeat debtors and that makes it hard for them to keep money in the bank, but even a repayment plan is better than keeping your money in your house.
Also, you can't just be talented at collecting debt by asking people nicely. Most of the time, people won't pick up. The person has to be willing to pay off the debt before it goes to court. Many people can't, others are just criminal and irresponsible, others are nuts. What goes on in this movie is fantasy. These boiler room workers at debt collection places probably get at most one person paying one small debt before they quit. The only one who benefits is the guy in charge. Some dirt poor girl just out of prison just can't usurp an established debt collection company. She just keeps making money materialize out of nowhere, especially to buy the debt paper in one of the worst business strategies of all time. You are not just going to hire a few random people and close that many accounts and make it look easy. Like I said, people dodge you, hang up, if a debt has gotten to that stage, more than likely, it's a formality, hope and prayer before a court case.
It's just a ridiculous movie. If it's supposed to be a comedy, ok, but it's not even well-done or believable. The whole script could have been fixed if she had a rich uncle or something to make it believable. That's the only way.
I like Zoey Deutch, she probably has a bright future, but this movie was a dog. What a shame.
So Peg is supposed to be poor with a struggling mom operating a salon at home. She gets into an Ivy League school but despite being poor and enterprising, can't get any scholarships, so she resorts to unscrupulous behavior scalping Bills tickets that gets her serious prison time. In spite of being poor and basically caught dead to rights, she hires a private lawyer, fights the case in a trial and is shocked she owes $50K or so in legal fees. Really? Who would even take her case knowing she could never pay that money back? Most people in general get lawyers pro bono or public defenders if they want to fight a charge.
She gets out of prison and her brother offers her a job at his bar because she has no other options? If her brother was poor too, how did he get this bar? Supposedly, it was their dad's all along, but who was operating it until he got old enough? Why not sell it? This is never answered. So they really weren't as badly off as we were lead to believe.
She has wanted to get out of Buffalo her entire life, but needs a small fortune to leave? That doesn't make any sense? $10K at most is probably enough to pay for rent in another city for a year where she can use her talents to find another good job quite quickly. I just don't get it. Other people just hop on a bus and say screw it. A girl like her can waitress or find a way to make it if Buffalo is so bad. NYC is not far away either, lol.
Worse yet, she keeps all her money in boxes in her house, where anyone could steal it and set her back to square one. Now, that said, I have family who are horrible deadbeat debtors and that makes it hard for them to keep money in the bank, but even a repayment plan is better than keeping your money in your house.
Also, you can't just be talented at collecting debt by asking people nicely. Most of the time, people won't pick up. The person has to be willing to pay off the debt before it goes to court. Many people can't, others are just criminal and irresponsible, others are nuts. What goes on in this movie is fantasy. These boiler room workers at debt collection places probably get at most one person paying one small debt before they quit. The only one who benefits is the guy in charge. Some dirt poor girl just out of prison just can't usurp an established debt collection company. She just keeps making money materialize out of nowhere, especially to buy the debt paper in one of the worst business strategies of all time. You are not just going to hire a few random people and close that many accounts and make it look easy. Like I said, people dodge you, hang up, if a debt has gotten to that stage, more than likely, it's a formality, hope and prayer before a court case.
It's just a ridiculous movie. If it's supposed to be a comedy, ok, but it's not even well-done or believable. The whole script could have been fixed if she had a rich uncle or something to make it believable. That's the only way.
I like Zoey Deutch, she probably has a bright future, but this movie was a dog. What a shame.