Nancy, Please

2012 American film

Will Heinrich
Andrew Semans

Produced by

Dave Saltzman
Vinay Singh

Starring

Will Rogers
Eléonore Hendricks
Rebecca Lawrence Levy
Santino Fontana

CinematographyEric LinEdited byRon DulinMusic byChristopher White

Production
company

Small Coup Films

Distributed byFactory 25

Release date

April 21, 2012 (2012-04-21) (United States)

Running time

84 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Nancy, Please is a 2012 American drama film directed by Andrew Semans. It stars Will Rogers as Paul, a PhD candidate struggling to complete his thesis who gets into a seemingly insignificant conflict with his former roommate, Nancy (Eléonore Hendricks), over a missing book. Paul's partner, Jen (Rebecca Lawrence Levy), and his friend, Charlie (Santino Fontana), unsuccessfully try to help resolve the conflict.

Critical response

Nancy, Please has received favorable reviews from film critics. Rotten Tomatoes reports 100% positive reviews and an average rating of 7.8/10 from 8 critics,^[1] while Metacritic reports an average score of 76/100 from 5 critics.^[2] Jeannette Catsoulis in The New York Times appreciates the "tone that’s precisely balanced between terror and farce".^[3] In The Hollywood Reporter, Frank Scheck writes that "Andrew Semans presents an engrossing psychological thriller for his feature debut."^[4]

References

^ "Nancy, Please". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-08-06.
^ "Nancy, Please Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-08-06.
^ Jeannette Catsoulis (2013-05-23). "Dissertation Tests a Grad Student's Sanity". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-08-06.
^ Frank Scheck (2012-04-24). "Nancy, Please: Tribeca Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2014-08-06.