Emily Blunt frantically hustles for a better life, only to fall deeper into a dangerous racketeering scheme, in the official trailer for David Yates’ Pain Hustlers, which Netflix released on Tuesday.
Dreaming of riches for herself and her young daughter, Liza Drake, played by Blunt, lands a job from Pete Brenner (Chris Evans) at a failing pharma startup in a Florida strip mall.
“There’s nothing so inspiring as sheer desperation,” Drake says at one point in the trailer as her charm, drive and guts catapult her into the high life as a sales executive at a company marketing a new kind of opioid drug offering pain relief to cancer patients.
The problem is that drug unwittingly is helping spark the U.S. opioid epidemic and Drake’s unceasing hustle can’t keep the company and her position safe at the center of a criminal enterprise. And to complicate their success, Drake and Brenner have to deal with an increasingly unhinged boss, played by Andy Garcia.
The first Pain Hustlers trailer came out ahead of a world premiere for the film at the Toronto Film Festival in September. Netflix will start streaming the film on Oct. 27 after it opens in select theaters a week earlier. The streaming giant paid around $50 million for the movie at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival market.
Catherine O’Hara, Jay Duplass, Brian d’Arcy James and Chloe Coleman also star in Pain Hustlers, which is written by Wells Tower (The True American) and is produced by Lawrence Grey through his Grey Matter Productions banner and Wychwood Pictures.
Yates is best known for directing the last four films in the Harry Potter franchise, as well as all three Fantastic Beasts films.
