Verity, a romantic thriller directed by Michael Showalter and starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett, opens in theaters today. The film adapts Colleen Hoover's novel about a celebrated author who works as a ghostwriter in an isolated mansion.
Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer, agrees to take over writing Verity Crawford’s books, a best-selling author who is now unable to work. She moves into Verity and her husband Jeremy’s estate to pore over the documents needed for the assignment.
Lowen then uncovers what looks like Verity’s personal notes. The contents reveal troubling revelations about Jeremy and place the young woman in a murky zone of uncertainty where attraction, manipulation, and psychological threat intertwine.
Anne Hathaway stars as Verity Crawford, with Dakota Johnson playing Lowen Ashleigh and Josh Hartnett portraying Jeremy. The screenplay is by Nick Antosca.
The film translates to the screen the claustrophobic confinement and the uncertainties of the novel, maintaining the doubt over Verity's intentions and the nature of the documents unearthed by Lowen.
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