Get Out

**Just Because You're Invited, Doesn't Mean You're Welcome.**

Get Out is a 2017 film from the USA. It was nominated for Best Picture at the 2018 Academy Awards.

## Plot

Black photographer Chris Washington is apprehensive as he prepares to meet the family of his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage. Later, at the Armitage house in rural Upstate New York, Rose's brother Jeremy and their parents, neurosurgeon Dean and hypnotherapist Missy, make disconcerting comments about black people. Chris witnesses strange behavior from the estate's black housekeeper Georgina and groundskeeper Walter.

When Chris is unable to sleep, Missy pressures him into a hypnotherapy session to cure his smoking addiction. In a trance, he expresses guilt over his mother's death in a hit-and-run when he was a child, and sinks into a void Missy calls the "Sunken Place". The next morning, he assumes that the encounter was a dream, but cigarettes now repulse him. Georgina unplugs his phone "accidentally," draining its battery.

Dozens of wealthy white people arrive for the Armitages' annual get-together. They express admiration for Chris's physique and for black figures such as Tiger Woods. Jim Hudson, a blind art dealer, takes particular interest in Chris's photography skills. Chris meets another black man, Logan King, who behaves strangely and is married to a much older white woman. Chris calls his friend, TSA agent Rod Williams, about the strange behavior. Chris tries to photograph Logan inconspicuously, but when his flash goes off, Logan becomes hysterical, shouting at Chris to "get out". The others restrain him and Dean claims that Logan had an epileptic seizure.

Away from the party, Chris convinces Rose that they should leave. Meanwhile, Dean holds an auction with a photo of Chris, which Hudson wins. Rod recognizes "Logan" as Andre Hayworth, a missing man. Suspecting a conspiracy, Rod goes to the police, but no one believes him. While Chris packs to leave, he finds photos of Rose in prior relationships with black people, including Walter and Georgina, contradicting her claim that Chris is her first black boyfriend. He tries to leave the house, but Rose and her family block him. Chris attacks Jeremy, but Missy uses a "trigger" that she implanted during his hypnosis, knocking him out.

Chris awakens strapped to a chair in the basement. In a video presentation, Rose's grandfather Roman explains that the family transplants their brains into others' bodies, granting them preferred physical characteristics and a twisted form of immortality. Hudson tells Chris the host's consciousness remains in the Sunken Place, conscious but powerless. Although the Armitages target mainly black people, Hudson reveals he wants Chris's body only for sight. Missy performs a hypnosis, but Chris blocks it by plugging his ears with cotton stuffing pulled from the chair.

When Jeremy comes to fetch Chris for the surgery, Chris knocks him out and impales Dean with the antlers of a deer mount. Dean knocks over a candle, setting fire to the operating room with Hudson inside. Chris kills Missy and Jeremy, then drives away in Jeremy's car, but hits Georgina. Remembering his mother's death, he carries Georgina into the car. However, possessed by Rose's grandmother Marianne, she attacks him. During the struggle the car crashes, killing her. Rose apprehends him with Walter, who is possessed by Roman. Chris uses the flash on his phone to neutralize Roman, allowing Walter to regain control of his body. Walter takes Rose's rifle, shoots her in the stomach, and then shoots himself, killing Roman. Chris begins to strangle Rose, but stops as Rod arrives in a TSA car and rescues Chris, leaving Rose on the road.

## Cast

* Daniel Kaluuya as Chris Washington (Nominated for Best Actor)
	+ Zailand Adams as 11-year-old Chris
* Allison Williams as Rose Armitage
* Bradley Whitford as Dean Armitage
* Caleb Landry Jones as Jeremy Armitage
* Stephen Root as Jim Hudson
* Lakeith Stanfield as Andre Hayworth / Logan King
* Catherine Keener as Missy Armitage
* Lil Rel Howery as Rod Williams
* Erika Alexander as Detective Latoya
* Marcus Henderson as Walter
* Betty Gabriel as Georgina

Writer-director Jordan Peele voices the sounds made by the wounded deer, and narrates a UNCF commercial.

## Critic Consensus

Funny, scary, and thought-provoking, *Get Out* seamlessly weaves its trenchant social critiques into a brilliantly effective and entertaining horror/comedy thrill ride.