Penny (Rebel Wilson) pursues a similar racket in less refined circumstances, and with less elegant methods. Her go-to grift is a modified version of catfishing, in which she confabulates a hot sister in desperate need of surgery. Her arrival in Beaumont is an irritant to Josephine, who objects to the competition and also to Penny’s exuberant vulgarity. Nobody is going to get hurt, but Hathaway and Wilson make decent sport of it. Hathaway, affecting an upper-crusty accent as Josephine’s default voice (she has others when she needs them), savors her own chilliness and weaponizes her self-control.

Source: New York Times May 09, 2019 16:01 UTC