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Hathaway, McKenzie anchor stylish adaptation of 'Eileen'
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This image released by the Sundance Institute shows Anne Hathaway, left, and Thomasin McKenzie in a scene from "Eileen," which will be featured at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. - photo by Courtesy of Sundance Institute via AP
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Eileen, the title character of Otessa Moshfegh’s debut novel, is a strange young woman with a vivid, sensual, and sometimes dangerous imagination. Her actual life, however, is anything but: She works a mind-numbing desk job as a secretary at a boy’s prison in Massachusetts in 1964 and goes home to a depressed, cruel father who seems content to drink himself to death. She is hopelessly lonely and a little bitter — that is until the arrival of a glamourous new employee, Rebecca Saint John, a Hitchcock blonde with a doctorate from Harvard, a taste for martinis and a breezy Mae West confidence.