Netflix’s Luckiest Girl Alive: Release Date, Cast, Plot

Content warning: this submit accommodates descriptions of sexual assault.

Mila Kunis is the “Luckiest Girl Alive” in Netflix’s newest book-to-movie adaptation (or is she?). The film, based mostly on New York Times bestselling creator Jessica Knoll’s 2015 novel of the identical identify, stars Kunis as Ani FaNelli, “a sharp-tongued New Yorker” residing in her personal good world — till a crime documentary that revisits her darkish highschool previous threatens to unravel all the things.

Though “Luckiest Girl Alive” is a fictional story, Knoll beforehand informed the “Today” present that her novel — which offered over 450,000 copies — was formed by her personal experiences. In the e book, Ani survives a gang rape, an identical expertise the creator had when she was 15 years outdated and assaulted by three boys at a celebration. “I knew it the morning that I opened my eyes. I simply felt horrible and violated and I knew it was improper,” Knoll mentioned in her March 2016 interview. “It was terribly exhausting to go to highschool on a regular basis. I look again on that 12 months and I simply keep in mind feeling fully uncooked.” She added, “I felt like an uncovered nerve. If you simply touched me, I simply shriveled up in ache. That’s all I can recall about that 12 months of my life.”

“Today” reported that Knoll wrote in regards to the incident intimately in a since-deleted essay for a web-based e-newsletter known as Lenny. She additionally devoted her e book to fellow sexual-assault survivors and wrote in it, “To all of the TifAni FaNellis of the world, I do know.”

Netflix’s adaptation of “Luckiest Girl Alive,” written by Knoll and directed by Mike Barker, is produced by Kunis, Bruna Papandrea, Jeanne Snow, Erik Feig, and Lucy Kitada. The film arrives in theaters in September forward of its streaming debut this fall.

Read forward for all the things we find out about “Luckiest Girl Alive” up to now, together with the forged and launch date.

“Luckiest Girl Alive” Plot

The thriller’s synopsis says the film follows Ani (Kunis), “a sharp-tongued New Yorker who seems to have all of it: a sought-after place at a shiny journal, a killer wardrobe and a dream Nantucket wedding on the horizon. But when the director of a criminal offense documentary invitations her to inform her aspect of the surprising incident that came about when she was a young person on the prestigious Brentley School, Ani is compelled to confront a darkish reality that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.”

“Luckiest Girl Alive” Cast

In addition to Kunis, the movie stars Finn Wittrock, Chiara Aurelia, Scoot McNairy, Thomas Barbusca, Justine Lupe, Dalmar Abuzeid, Alex Barone, Carson MacCormac, Jennifer Beals, and Connie Britton.

“Luckiest Girl Alive” Release Date

The film hits choose theaters on Sept. 30 and premieres on Netflix worldwide on Oct. 7.