Taglines: He’s good at taking friends.
Come Play Movie Storyline. Oliver is a young non-verbal autistic boy who uses a smartphone to communicate with people. He attends school and is mostly taken care of by his mother, Sarah; his father Marty spends most of his time at work trying to make ends meet. Sarah and Marty’s marriage has become difficult to the extent that Marty moves out.
One night Oliver sees an app on his smartphone, “Misunderstood Monsters”, narrating the story of a monster named “Larry” who “just wants a friend”. Strange things begin happening to Oliver after he reads the story: lights go out by themselves, and a second face appears on his tablet while he plays with a picture app. At school, Oliver is bullied by his classmates due to his condition. They lure him into a field and take his phone, throwing it out into the field.
One night, Sarah organizes a sleepover so Oliver can become more social. The three boys who bullied him come over. Oliver hides the tablet as he is terrified of it. One of the boys retrieves the tablet and reads the story. The lights go out and Larry appears, but he can only be seen through the camera of the tablet. Larry attacks Byron, one of the boys, and the terrified boys all blame Oliver for the incident. In the following days, Sarah begins to see the same strange things Oliver did. Confronting Larry through Oliver’s tablet, she learns that Larry wishes to “take” Oliver back to his home world.
That night, Marty takes Oliver to his night-shift parking lot attendant job. Larry, revealing as a skeletal creature similar to a ghoul, begins to stalk them. When Marty witnesses Larry picking Oliver off from the ground, he finally believes Sarah and Oliver. They break the tablet and assume everything is over. Byron is traumatized from the incident at Oliver’s house but comes clean on what really happened, absolving Oliver of blame. It is revealed that Byron and Oliver were once good friends but their friendship ended badly because Oliver accidentally hurt Byron which also caused their moms to break up their friendship. They both reconcile.
Come Play is a 2020 American horror thriller film written and directed by Jacob Chase. It stars Gillian Jacobs, John Gallagher Jr., Azhy Robertson, and Winslow Fegley. The film follows the parents of an elementary school student with autism as they try to protect their young son from “Larry”, a villainous nighttime monster that preys on the innocence of children. It was theatrically released in the United States on October 30, 2020, by Focus Features. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $13 million against a budget of $9 million.
Come Play (2020)
Directed by: Jacob Chase
Starring: Gillian Jacobs, John Gallagher, Azhy Robertson, Winslow Fegley, Jayden Marine, Gavin MacIver-Wright, Rachel Wilson, Alana-Ashley Marques, Ish Morris, Ana Araujo, Kate Fenton
Screenplay by: Jacob Chase
Production Design by: David J. Bomba
Cinematography by: Maxime Alexandre
Film Editing by: Gregory Plotkin
Costume Design by: Marcia Scott
Set Decoration by: Kari Measham
Music by: Roque Baños
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for terror, frightening images and some language.
Distributed by: Focus Features
Release Date: October 30, 2020 (United States)
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