Eileen: Ottessa Moshfegh’s Controversial Novel Comes to the Big Screen

Ottessa Moshfegh is an author who is famous for creating characters, mostly women, who make her readers feel very strongly because they are unpleasant, often because they aren’t trusted friends and have selfish tendencies. It is amazing to see how Moshfegh creates worlds that are just as strange as our own. These worlds reflect our behaviors and habits, which is very interesting. Now, Moshfegh’s crazy writing is making its way to the big screen. Her first book, Eileen, is being turned into a movie, and Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway are playing the lead parts.

Eileen Cast

• Thomasin McKenzie as Eileen Dunlop

• Shea Whigham as Jim Dunlop

• Sam Nivola as Lee Polk

• Siobhan Fallon Hogan as Mrs. Murray

• Tonye Patano as Mrs. Stevens

• William Hill as Intake Guard

• Owen Teague as Randy

• Peter McRobbie as Warden

• Peter Von Berg as Dr. Frye

• Anne Hathaway as Rebecca

• Patrick Ryan Wood as Joseph

• Mason Pettograsso as Demarco

What is the Release Date of Eileen?

Eileen is set to have a limited release in theaters on December 1, 2023. It is expected to captivate viewers with its mysterious plot and captivating acts. As the excitement about the movie grows, it will be shown to more people when it gets a bigger release on December 8, 2023. With global distribution, Eileen will be shown all over the world, building on the excitement that came from its great premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023.

After this successful screening, NEON bought the rights to distribute the film in North America in March 2023. By July 2023, Focus Features had bought the rights to distribute the film everywhere except North America. Universal Pictures, the film’s parent business, is ready to handle distribution around the world. The movie will open in theaters in the UK and Ireland on the same day that it opens in select theaters in the US.

Is There a Trailer For ‘Eileen’?

The video for Eileen came out on October 17, 2023, from NEON. It was the first good look at the movie for most people.

What Is ‘Eileen’ Plot?

After its first release, Eileen got a lot of praise from critics and won a lot of awards. It won the prestigious PEN/Hemingway Award and made it to the finals of the coveted Man Booker Prize. The story is about Eileen, a young woman who works in a Massachusetts jail in the 1960s and lives with her troublesome, alcoholic ex-police officer father, who constantly makes her life hard. Eileen’s life is getting boring and she wants some company and excitement. That’s when she meets Dr. Rebecca, a jail psychologist who is both charming and strange. This could be the turning point in Eileen’s life. She offers Eileen friendship, which slowly brings out parts of Eileen’s personality that have been dormant for a long time. As Eileen’s relationship with Rebecca grows, she gets caught up in the counselor’s hidden, dangerous past. This sets the stage for an exciting story of secrets and revelations.

Eileen is a story about characters who are lonely, who want something, and how complicated relationships can be. Moshfegh’s book is deeply funny, and she does a great job of getting into the mind of her main character, making the story vivid and real. The tension in the book builds slowly, creating a feeling of unease and anticipation throughout the story. Since Moshfegh co-wrote the script with her husband Luke Goebel, we can expect the same feelings to come through in the movie, with her focusing on the process of turning the book into a movie. Moshfegh told Collider the following:

“As the author of a novel you need to see it through a very specific lens, and when you’re adapting it into film that lens is the camera and you have to think like a cinematographer and a director, and you have to think like the character, and you have to think like the character 10 years ago, and you have to think like a writer. So collaborating with people who can help melt away the limits of your singular perspective and offer other ways of seeing your project is crucial.”