Her smile grows bigger with each visit, her clothes grow skimpier and her eyes grow, well they really can’t grow any wider as Pike is already a master of the wide-eyed look, but she stretches them to the limit.
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Persistence pays off though leading to a series of prison visits between Miranda and the man who assaulted her. Stuck in place and unable to move forward, she begins writing letters to William in jail only to see them returned unopened. She misses necessary milestones for her promotion to the surgery team, grows insanely short-tempered with those around her and develops hand tremors that make frosting a cake impossible. He’s caught, convicted and sentenced, but Miranda ends up in a prison of her own. William ( Shiloh Fernandez) rapes and beats her before running off and leaving her battered body to be found by the actual blind date. A man arrives at her house, and presuming he’s the guy she invites him in for a drink before realizing too late the mistake she’s made. It’s certainly more important to her than being in a relationship and almost as important as her love of baking, but after months of kindly nudging she allows a friend to set her up on a blind date.
Miranda ( Rosamund Pike) is a young nurse determined to make the move into becoming a surgical assistant in the near future. Almost as sadly, this film achieves none of its intended goals and instead ends up as little more than a despicable, weak-kneed stab at merging drama and exploitation that manages neither. Of course if simply wanting something was enough to make it true then I’d be playing doubles tennis with Melanie Lynskey, Charlize Theron and Paul Rudd right now instead of writing about this tripe.
Return to Sender is a rape/revenge tale of sorts that wants viewers to suspect it’s something far more dramatic, empowering and edgy.
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