Karen Movie Storyline. Malik and Imani are a young black couple who move into a new house in the suburbs. When they arrive, they are greeted by a seemingly friendly white neighbor named Karen Drexler. However, this façade slowly reveals a bitter, jealous, angry, and racist woman who wants to remove the couple at any cost.
Karen is an American thriller film written and directed by Coke Daniels and starring Taryn Manning, Cory Hardrict, Jasmine Burke, Mary Christina Brown, Dawn Halfkenny, Betsy Landin, Veronika Bozeman, Ava Ann Gale, Lorenzo Cromwell and Norah Elin Murphy. The title of the film is a reference to the stereotype of the same name.
Reactions for Karen trailer
The trailer for the new horror film Karen has just been released, in which a racist white woman terrorises her Black neighbours.
Tapping into the recent emergence of “Karen” as a shorthand to nod to a certain kind of entitled white woman, the film stars Taryn Manning (Orange is the New Black) as Karen White, the woman ruining her neighbours’ life.
Karen was directed by Coke Daniels and also stars Cory Hardrict, Jasmine Burke, Roger Dorman and Gregory Alan.
A synopsis obtained by Deadline describes this film as following “Karen Drexler (Manning), a racist white woman who makes it her personal mission to displace the new Black family that has just moved in next door to her.
“Community activist Malik (Hardrict) and his wife Imani (Burke) are the couple who have just moved to the Atlanta suburb, but they won’t be backing down without a fight.”
“I felt a social responsibility to take on this role,” Manning told the publication. “Even if I had to play the villain to affect change around the globe, then I was more than willing to step into the role.
“What’s been going on is devastating. It’s time for change and for me to be a part of the bigger picture, meant a lot to me.”
Fans on Twitter have been mixed on the trailer so far, with one calling it “unbelievably cringe” and another saying the film must be “from SNL“, adding: “No way that’s a real movie.”
Karen (2021)
Directed by: Coke Daniels
Starring: Taryn Manning, Cory Hardrict, Jasmine Burke, Mary Christina Brown, Dawn Halfkenny, Betsy Landin, Veronika Bozeman, Ava Ann Gale, Lorenzo Cromwell, Norah Elin Murphy
Screenplay by: Coke Daniels
Production Design by: Amanda Kiely
Cinematography by: Anthony J. Rickert-Epstein
Costume Design by: Lisa Smedley
Makeup Department: Char Coats-Crump
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: BET Original Movies, Flixville USA
Release Date: August 13, 2021
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