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The Assistant

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Kitty Green
STARRING Julia Garner, Matthew Macfadyen,
Noah Robbins, & Jon Orsini

The Assistant follows one day in the life of Jane (Julia Garner), a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. Her day is much like any other assistant’s – making coffee, changing the paper in the copy machine, ordering lunch, arranging travel, taking phone messages, onboarding a new hire. But as Jane follows her daily routine, she, and we, grow increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her workday, an accumulation of degradations against which Jane decides to take a stand, only to discover the true depth of the system into which she has entered.


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"It’s one of the best, most gripping, and smartest films of 2020."

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—Alissa Wilkinson

"A quiet work with major ambitions, “The Assistant” is a significant cultural statement in cinematic form."

—Eric Kohn

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