The story
Don't Worry Darling is a 2022 American psychological thriller film directed by Olivia Wilde from a screenplay by Katie Silberman, based on a spec script by brothers Carey Van Dyke and Shane Van Dyke. Starring Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Wilde, Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne, Nick Kroll, and Chris Pine, it follows a housewife in an idyllic company town who begins to suspect a sinister secret being kept from its residents by the man who runs it.
Setting & tone
Don't Worry Darling is set in United States of America and works primarily in English. Tonally it sits in Science Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, drawing on the conventions of each while filtering them through Olivia Wilde's direction.
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