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LONDON (Reuters) U.S. actress Julia Roberts says her new film Leave The World Behind is a multilayered disaster thriller that allowed her to play someone very different from herself...
Executive produced by former U.S. President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, the movie is written and directed by Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail and based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Rumaan Alam...
It sees Roberts character Amanda, her husband and two children head on an impromptu holiday in a small Long Island town..
Their getaway is interrupted when a man and his daughter, played by Mahershala Ali and Myhala Herrold, turn up on their doorstep claiming to be the owners of the upmarket residence and requesting to stay the night..
As tension builds between the two families, strange events start occurring around them and they find themselves under the same roof trying to make sense of the chaos outside.. Theres always about 17 and a half things going on at one time in every scene for each person..
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