4. 3. 2. 1.
Nope, that wasn't a countdown, that was the actual name of the movie I watched.
Don't believe me? Here's the link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1514041/
This is what it means:
4 - 4 girls who are best friends - Shannon, Kerrys, Joanne, Cassandra - apart from Joanne who is American, the other 3 are English
3 - days - set over a 3 day period, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
2 - 2 cities - London and New York. Also, the American girl Joanne is not the one who goes to New York, she stays in London. Cassandra goes to New York
1 - 1 chance - Shannon comes across a batch of black market diamonds and it's up to all 3 what to do with them.
So the movie is split into 6 different parts:
(1) All 4 girls at the beginning
(2) Shannon's weekend (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
(3) Cassandra's weekend
(4) Kerrys' weekend
(5) Joanne's weekend
(6) The girls reuniting on Sunday night
It's well produced in the way the girls keep in contact with each other over the weekend, and how they interact, as well as the way the stories inter-twine and are shown from the other person's perspective - I'll give it that.
Here's more about the girls though:
(1) Shannon - a baby-faced cute girl. Perhaps the youngest in the group. She experienced the weekend from hell. Her mother walks out on her father, she is almost killed by a psycho who pretended to like her at first, however is after the diamonds, has a guy she thinks likes her hook up with her other friend, is chased by the police, gets drunk by a guy attempting to sleep with her, as well as a few other dramas.
(2) Cassandra - the rich blonde bombshell, total babe, hottest of the lot, and a talented pianist. She spends the weekend in New York trying to meet her internet boyfriend. It turns out that he doesn't show up at their agreed meeting point. However he shows up at her hotel rooms and sleeps with her. This is how she looses her virginity. She wakes up though and he disappears. She then manages to track him down as well as the person who he was pretending to be and things get pretty rough.
(3) Kerrys - the tough girl of the lot, a lesbian and feminist. She does not get along with her step-brother. She is a pretty good fighter and keeps a cool head in a tough situation. She is the type of person who would want on your side rather than against you. Pretty good looking too.
(4) Joanne - the lone American girl of the lot. She works at a 24/7 convenience store in London. She does not like her job or her manager, however says "yes" to everything until the end when she looses it at a hold-up at the store.
Overall the movie is B grade, there are not big name actors in it except for singer Eve who saves Cassandra from her tough situation in New York, and also Mandy Patinkin from Homeland, also in New York. I will take my hat off to how it is produced though, this is done well.
6/10.