# Greedy People (film)

Greedy People is a 2024 American crime comedy film directed by Potsy Ponciroli and written by Michael Vukadinovich. The film stars Himesh Patel, Lily James and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
The film was theatrically released in the United States on August 23, 2024.

## Plot

The film follows the misadventures of a rookie cop partnered with an unhinged and morally questionable local officer who is a familiar sight in the small bedroom town of Providence. While cruising around they get bored and Terry, the experienced cop, parks in front of a local residence. He leaves the rookie alone in the vehicle while he attends to his urges with the wife of a local businessman. While he's inside the rookie gets a call from dispatch which he thinks is a request to investigate a burglary. After trying unsuccessfully to summon his partner, he decides to go it solo. Upon arriving at the address given by dispatch he finds the door ajar and proceeds to enter. What happens next is a case of mistaken identity that ends with an accidental homicide. The partner arrives later after hitching a ride with one of the locals. He finds the rookie in shock and a large basket of money. They decide to abscond with the money and cover up the accident by trashing the place. The series of events that follow are reminiscent of a Quintin Tarantino/Cohen Brothers storyline mashup. Turns out the money belonged to a local fishery owner who was using it to pay off a hitman. The hitman threatens the fishery owner who panics and starts killing people himself. He is subsequently killed, and his mistress kills the person who killed him which creates a domino effect. All the major players come to untimely ends and the story is wrapped up in a neat little bow. It is a classic neo-noir morality tale.

## Cast

* Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Officer Terry Brogan
* Himesh Patel as Officer Will Shelley
* Lily James as Paige
* Tim Blake Nelson as Wallace Chetlo
* Traci Lords as Virginia Chetlo
* Joey Lauren Adams as Bobette
* Uzo Aduba as Murphy
* Jim Gaffigan as Irishman
* Simon Rex as Keith Crawford
* Nina Arianda as Deborah
* Neva Howell as Ms. Crawford
* José María Yazpik as The Colombian
* Yingling Zhu as Yu Yan

## Production

The film was initially titled The Problem with Providence. In May 2022 it was announced that filming was starting, with Lily James, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Himesh Patel appearing in the Limelight, Boies Schiller Entertainment and Hideout Pictures financed and produced film directed by Potsy Ponciroli and written by Michael Vukadinovich. Producers are David Boies, Zack Schiller, Shannon Houchins, Dylan Sellers and Chris Parker with executive producers Tyler Zacharia, Sam Slater, Phil Keefe and Dane Eckerle with Vukadinovich. On May 13, it was revealed that Tim Blake Nelson, Uzo Aduba, Simon Rex, Nina Arianda, Jim Gaffigan, José María Yazpik and Joey Lauren Adams had joined the cast. Filming took place in Southport, North Carolina, between May 9 and June 11, 2022. In October 2023, it was retitled Greedy People.

## Release

In February 2024, Lionsgate acquired domestic distribution rights to the film; its Indian division also acquired distribution rights for India and the Philippines from Mister Smith Entertainment. The film was released theatrically and on video-on-demand in the United States on August 23, 2024.

## Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 61% of 44 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6/10. The website's consensus reads: "Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a doofus with entertaining savvy in Greedy People, a shaggy crime comedy that welcomes unflattering comparisons to better examples of the genre." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 45 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.