The key unlocks a door in a remote part of the estate, and leads to a creepy underground hideaway. He urges her to make sure "the truth will stay buried." He suggests that what the key will unlock is a mess he was unable to clean up. In a video message, Archer is clearly uncomfortable, and uncharacteristically apologetic. And when she learns the terms of the will, she assures her husband that she is not surprised or bothered.īut then the family lawyer ( Michael Beach) takes Lauren aside to tell her Archer left her something else, an envelope with a key and a thumb drive. The family has a mansion in the country referred to as the "summer house" and, in Bruce Wayne-style, "the manor." Lauren has the typical movie-signifiers of discipline and toughness: we see her running through Central Park she wears severe, dark suits, her hair in a tight bun, with bright red lipstick she is cool under pressure and not rattled by aggressive questions from reporters, at least until one of them informs her that her father has died.
"Victims and families have always been my only concern, not bankers and brokers," she tells a crowd of reporters shouting questions at her in the lobby of the courthouse. He says her District Attorney job was beneath her, dismissing her as just a "public servant," even though at the time of his death she is taking the lead role in a huge case against a high-profile Wall Street crook. In flashbacks we see Lauren arguing with Archer he wanted her to work for a prestigious law firm and make a lot of money representing Wall Street tycoons. But he left just $1 million to his daughter Lauren ( Lily Collins), a New York District Attorney known for prosecuting the powerful and wealthy, meaning people like her father. He left $20 million to his son William ( Chase Crawford), a Congressman in a tight race for re-election. At the reading of the will, his also-powerful son and daughter learn that they have not been treated equally. Still, it just qualifies as watchable due to its nutty premise, sumptuous settings, and a couple of dynamic confrontations.Īrcher Monroe ( Patrick Warburton), a powerful and wealthy man, dies suddenly. But "Inheritance" is the case of a film that's so full of holes, it was likely recut from an earlier version and not quite stitched back together.
It doesn't have to hold together in our world, so long as we believe it will hold together in theirs. A movie with a don't-think-too-hard-about-this premise can work if it sustains its own logic.
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