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'''''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 Silberman, Carey Van Dyke, and [[Shane Van Dyke]]. The film starsStarring [[HarryFlorence StylesPugh]], [[FlorenceHarry PughStyles]], Wilde, [[Gemma Chan]], [[KiKi Layne]], [[Nick Kroll]], and [[Chris Pine]]., The filmit follows a housewife living in an idyllic [[company town]] who begins to suspect a sinister secret being kept from its residents by the man who runs it.
 
Following the critical success of Wilde's feature directorial debut ''[[Booksmart]]'' (2019), a multi-studio bidding war took place for the rights of her second film, with [[New Line Cinema]] eventually winning. Pugh joined the cast in April 2020, with Styles added that September, replacing [[Shia LaBeouf]] after production had already begun. Filming begantook place in Los Angeles infrom October 2020, lasting throughto February 2021. The film was the subject of media attention and controversy, including conflicting reports regarding the circumstances of LaBeouf's departure and alleged conflicts between Wilde and Pugh.
 
''Don't Worry Darling'' premiered at the [[79th Venice International Film Festival]] on September 5, 2022, and was theatrically released in the United States on September 23, by [[Warner Bros. Pictures]]. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $87.6 million.
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==Plot==
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Alice and Jack Chambers arelive married,in livingthe infictional town of Victory, [[California]], an idealistic 1950s desert [[company town]]. Every day, the men leave for work at Victory Headquarters in the surrounding desert, which their wives are prohibited from entering and discouraged from asking about. The women live as housewives and enjoy luxuries and leisure while the men are outgone.
 
Alice spends her days with other wives, including her best friend, Bunny. Another resident, Margaret, has become estranged from the community ever since she had a mental breakdown after her unauthorized desert visit resulted in her son's apparent death.; Margaretshe claims Victory took him as punishment for breaking the rules. At a party hosted by Frank, Victory's founder, Frank, Alice sees Margaret's husband attempt to medicate her after an outburst. Alice and Jack then have sex in Frank's bedroom, but she notices Frank observing them in silence.
 
While riding the trolley, Alice sees a plane crash in the desert and rushes to help. She stumbles onto Headquarters and touches one of its mirror-like windows, experiencing surreal hallucinations about another life before waking up at home that night.
 
Alice continues to have increasingly strange experiences, then receives a phone call from Margaret, who claims to have seen the same things. After brushing her off, she sees Margaret slit her own throat and fall from her roof. Before she can reach Margaret's body, Alice is dragged away by men in red jumpsuits who work for Frank.
 
Jack dismisses Alice's claims and says Margaret is simply recovering from a household accident. When Alice asks him what is really happening at the Victory Project, he becomes angry and refuses to answer. The town physician, Dr. Collins, prescribes Alice medication, which she and Jack decline, and. sheShe steals Margaret's heavily redacted medical file from his briefcase beforeand burningfinds it. heavily redacted.
 
Becoming increasingly paranoid during a company celebration where Frank promotes Jack, Alice breaks down in the bathroom. Confronted by Bunny, she attempts to explain her suspicions. Bunny reacts angrily when Alice tells her she went to Headquarters, accusing her of jeopardizing their livelihood in Victory and comparing her to Margaret.
 
Alice and Jack invite their neighbors to dinner, including Frank and his wife Shelley. Frank privately confirms her suspicions and dares her to challenge him. Spurred on, Alice attempts to expose him over dinner, but Frank makes her appear delusional to the others, causing Jack grief.
 
Afterward, Alice tries to tell Jack that Frank confirmed her suspicions, as true. However,but he shootsrebukes her down. Nearing the end of her rope, she begs him to leave the Victory Project with her. He feigns agreement, then lets Frank's men take her away in the driveway. Dr. Collins gives Alice [[Electroconvulsive therapy|electroshock therapy]], during which she sees herself in the 21st century, struggling to get by as surgical resident Alice Warren and living with the unemployed Jack.
 
After her treatment, Alice resumes her life in Victory, but comes to realize the visions are actually memories. Confronted by Alice, Jack confesses the truth: Victory is a simulated world created by Frank, where he and the other men lead their version of perfect lives; the women they have forced into the simulation are unaware that their lives in Victory, and their children, are artificial.
 
When the men leave for work each day, they are actually logging out of the simulation for real jobs to pay for their captive wives to stay there. Jack argues that Alice was miserable in the real world while in Victory they can both finally be happy, but she is livid that she's being held there non-consensually and without her autonomy. Jack begs Alice to stay, forcefully grabbing her, prompting her to smash a [[Old fashioned glass|rocks glass]] over his head, killing him in both the simulation and reality.
 
Frank immediately hears of Jack's death. Bunny finds Alice and admits she has always known about the simulation, but chose to stay to be with her children, who died in real life. She tells Alice that Frank's minions will kill her if she doesn't get to Headquarters—theHeadquarters, the exit portal from the simulation. Alice silently confronts the neighborhood, and as small explosions begin, the husbands panic.
 
Fleeing in Jack's car, Alice is chased by Dr. Collins and Frank's men. She maneuvers them into fatally crashing into each other. Meanwhile, Shelley fatally stabs Frank to take control of Victory. Arriving at Headquarters, Alice has a final vision of Jack, then puts her hands on Headquarters just before Frank's men can reach her. Seeing disturbing images mixed with visions of herself in the real world, the screen cuts to black as Alice is heard gasping for air. (It is left ambiguous if Alice escaped or not.)<!-- DO NOT PUT THAT SHE ESCAPED, WHAT WE SEE IS WHAT WE GET -->
 
==Cast==
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Rumors alleged that Wilde and Pugh clashed on set, leading to tensions during both production and promotion for the film.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Breakdown of all the Alleged 'Don't Worry Darling' Drama |first=Carolyn |last=Twersky |date=August 24, 2022 |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/dont-worry-darling-drama-olivia-wilde-florence-pugh |access-date=August 27, 2022 |work=[[W (magazine)|W]] |archive-date=August 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827024158/https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/dont-worry-darling-drama-olivia-wilde-florence-pugh |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Hipes |first1=Patrick |last2=D'Alessandro |first2=Anthony |date=September 25, 2022 |title='Don't Worry Darling' Crewmembers Dispute On-Set Feud Rumors Amid Solid Box Office Opening |url=https://deadline.com/2022/09/dont-worry-darling-crew-no-screaming-olivia-wilde-florence-pugh-1235126898/ |access-date=September 26, 2022 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |archive-date=September 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926010226/https://deadline.com/2022/09/dont-worry-darling-crew-no-screaming-olivia-wilde-florence-pugh-1235126898/ |url-status=live }}</ref> An anonymous source reported to ''[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]]'' that Pugh and Wilde had a "screaming match" on set, and the former Warner Bros. executive [[Toby Emmerich]] oversaw a "long negotiation process" between Wilde, Pugh, and the studio to figure out how much Pugh would continue to be involved in the film.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.vulture.com/2022/09/can-dont-worry-darling-recover-from-the-bad-press.html| title=Don't Worry, Darling, It's Judgment Day| website=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]]| date=September 23, 2022| accessdate=September 23, 2022| archive-date=September 23, 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923161225/https://www.vulture.com/2022/09/can-dont-worry-darling-recover-from-the-bad-press.html| url-status=live}}</ref> Warner Bros. co-chairs and CEOs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy denied any tension between themselves and Wilde, saying, "We are so proud of the work that Olivia Wilde has done making this incredibly beautiful and entertaining film and look forward to collaborating with her again."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-09-24 |title=Warner Bros. Denies Conflict With Olivia Wilde After Allegation of "Screaming Match" With Florence Pugh |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/1347789/warner-bros-denies-conflict-with-olivia-wilde-after-allegation-of-screaming-match-with-florence-pugh |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=E! Online |archive-date=January 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123222911/https://www.eonline.com/news/1347789/warner-bros-denies-conflict-with-olivia-wilde-after-allegation-of-screaming-match-with-florence-pugh |url-status=live }}</ref> On September 25, 2022, 40 members of the film's crew issued a statement disputing the allegations and dismissing rumors of unprofessional behavior on the set as "completely untrue".<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Hipes|last2=D'Alessandro|first1=Patrick|first2=Anthony|date=September 25, 2022|title='Don't Worry Darling' Crewmembers Dispute On-Set Feud Rumors Amid Solid Box Office Opening|url=https://deadline.com/2022/09/dont-worry-darling-crew-no-screaming-olivia-wilde-florence-pugh-1235126898/|access-date=September 26, 2022|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|archive-date=September 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926010226/https://deadline.com/2022/09/dont-worry-darling-crew-no-screaming-olivia-wilde-florence-pugh-1235126898/|url-status=live}}</ref> The allegations have also been dismissed by cinematographer Matthew Libatique, who called the set "one of the most harmonious sets I've ever been on", and by Wilde herself, who called the rumors "baseless".<ref name="vanityfair.com" />
 
On September 13, ''[[Vice Media|Vice]]'' spoke with the organization [[Media Matters for America|Media Matters]] about the increase in negative coverage and activity on social media about Wilde and the film.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Why Does It Seem Like So Much of the Internet Hates Olivia Wilde? |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/93aq4p/olivia-wilde-dont-worry-darling-internet-comments |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=www.vice.com |date=September 13, 2022 |archive-date=January 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123222911/https://www.vice.com/en/article/93aq4p/olivia-wilde-dont-worry-darling-internet-comments |url-status=live }}</ref> Media Matters found that in the previous week, "right-leaning pages ha[d] posted over 300 times about Wilde and the movie, earning over 200,000 interactions."<ref name=":2" /> Both ''Vice'' and [[Letterboxd]]'s fandom correspondent, Sacha Judd, speculated that Wilde's treatment was largely due to sexism.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Judd |first=Sacha |date=2022-09-28 |title=Killing Our Darlings: a fandom expert on why we urgently need to get to grips with the hate engine • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine |url=https://letterboxd.com/journal/killing-our-darlings-harry-styles-fandom-expert/ |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=letterboxd.com |archive-date=January 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123222910/https://letterboxd.com/journal/killing-our-darlings-harry-styles-fandom-expert/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Judd claimed that many of the rumors about Wilde and her film originated years previously in niche, often [[Larries|conspiratorial]] circles of her then-boyfriend Styles's fandom.<ref name=":3" /> This is supported by a May 2022 report in ''Input'', which said that these fans "circulated and mocked unflattering pictures of Styles' current girlfriend, Olivia Wilde [on [[TikTok]]], and have called for fellow fans to jump on the 'Olivia Wilde hate train'."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lucas |first=Jessica |title=Meet the TikTokers obsessed with Harry Styles' 'secret' love life |url=https://www.inverse.com/input/culture/larries-larry-stylinson-tiktok-harry-styles-harrys-house-olivia-wilde |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Input |date=May 10, 2022 |archive-date=January 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123222910/https://www.inverse.com/input/culture/larries-larry-stylinson-tiktok-harry-styles-harrys-house-olivia-wilde |url-status=live }}</ref> Judd accused trades that were reporting on ''Don't Worry Darling''{{'s}} alleged drama of "credulously republishing" untrue information "seemingly without any scrutiny at all".<ref name=":3" />
 
==Marketing==
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''Don't Worry Darling'' grossed $45.3 million in the U.S. and Canada, and $42.3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $87.6 million.<ref name="NUM" /><ref name="BOM" />
 
In the U.S. and Canada, ''Don't Worry Darling''it was projected to gross $17–20 million from 4,113 theaters in its opening weekend, with some estimates going as high as $25 million.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |date=September 20, 2022 |title=Box Office: 'Don't Worry Darling' Targets $20 Million Debut as Off-Screen Drama Fuels Interest |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/box-office/box-office-dont-worry-darling-opening-weekend-estimates-1235377847/ |access-date=September 21, 2022 |website=Variety |archive-date=September 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922213652/https://variety.com/2022/film/box-office/box-office-dont-worry-darling-opening-weekend-estimates-1235377847/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=September 20, 2022 |title=Will Harry Styles Fans Deliver A Fall Hit For 'Don't Worry Darling'? – Box Office Preview |url=https://deadline.com/2022/09/harry-styles-dont-worry-darling-weekend-box-office-1235122999/ |access-date=September 21, 2022 |website=Deadline |archive-date=September 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922213652/https://deadline.com/2022/09/harry-styles-dont-worry-darling-weekend-box-office-1235122999/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The filmIt made $9.4 million on its first day, including a combined $3.1 million from preview screenings on Monday and Thursday.<ref name="Variety-previews">{{Cite web |last= Moreau |first= Jordan |date= September 23, 2022 |title= Box Office: 'Don't Worry Darling' Makes $3.1 Million From Previews |url= https://variety.com/2022/film/box-office/dont-worry-darling-box-office-1235380469/ |access-date= September 23, 2022 |website= Variety |quote= With a price tag of $35 million to produce |archive-date= September 23, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220923153022/https://variety.com/2022/film/box-office/dont-worry-darling-box-office-1235380469/ |url-status= live }}</ref> It went on to debut to $19.4 million, topping the box office; 66% of the audience was female, with nearly 70% aged 18–34. Several publications noted the film was front-loaded to Friday and previews, attributing it likely to younger women going to see Styles.<ref name=opening>{{Cite news |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=September 24, 2022 |title='Don't Worry Darling' Looking To Romance $20M Opening – Saturday AM Box Office |url=https://deadline.com/2022/09/box-office-dont-worry-darling-harry-styles-1235125578/ |access-date=September 24, 2022 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |archive-date=September 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923224654/https://deadline.com/2022/09/box-office-dont-worry-darling-harry-styles-1235125578/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |date=September 25, 2022 |title=Box Office: 'Don't Worry Darling' Sizzles With $19 Million Debut |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/box-office/dont-worry-darling-box-office-opening-weekend-harry-styles-olivia-wilde-1235383066/ |access-date=September 25, 2022 |website=Variety |archive-date=September 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925152522/https://variety.com/2022/film/box-office/dont-worry-darling-box-office-opening-weekend-harry-styles-olivia-wilde-1235383066/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In its sophomore weekend the film fell 64.6% to $6.8 million, finishing second behind newcomer ''[[Smile (2022 film)|Smile]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=October 1, 2022 |title='Smile' Now At $19M Weekend Opening – Saturday AM Box Office |url=https://deadline.com/2022/09/box-office-smile-dont-worry-darling-harry-styles-1235131625/ |access-date=October 1, 2022 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |archive-date=October 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001005700/https://deadline.com/2022/09/box-office-smile-dont-worry-darling-harry-styles-1235131625/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
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===Accolades===
[[John Powell (film composer)|John Powell]]'s musical score won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Film Score at The Ivors in London on 18 May 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ophelia |first=Maya |date=2023-05-18 |title=Winners of The Ivors 2023 announced |url=https://ivorsacademy.com/news/winners-of-the-ivors-2023-announced/ |access-date=2023-07-12 |website=The Ivors Academy |language=en-GB |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702154045/https://ivorsacademy.com/news/winners-of-the-ivors-2023-announced/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
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