Love Lies Bleeding

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The 2024 romantic thriller movie “Love Lies Bleeding” is directed by Rose Glass and written in collaboration with Weronika Tofilska. The film features Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Jena Malone, Anna Baryshnikov, Dave Franco, and Ed Harris in leading roles. A joint production between the United Kingdom and the United States, the story is set in 1989 and follows the intertwined lives of a secluded gym manager associated with a criminal syndicate and a driven bodybuilder.

Love Lies Bleeding Plot Summary

In 1989, gym manager Lou meets a woman named Jackie working out at her gym and falls in love with her. Jackie is a vagrant, passing through town on her way to a bodybuilding competition in Las Vegas. Jackie, emotionally unstable from the steroids, breaks into J.J.’s home and brutally beats him to death. The two drive his corpse and car into a ravine, where Lou formerly helped her father kill his business rivals and dispose of their bodies. Jackie hallucinates vomiting a fully grown Lou and contestants commenting on her weight. In her psychosis, she assaults another contestant, which lands her in jail.Lou is attacked by a figure whom she manages to fatally shoot, revealing the figure as a police officer on Lou Sr.s payroll. Realizing her father aims to kill her, she bludgeons the officer with a gun and makes her way to his manor. She frees Jackie and tells her to run, before being shot in the leg by Lou Sr. Lou threatens to expose his operation if he does so, causing Lou Sr to hang up in a rage. Lou shoves a gun into his mouth, but relents and leaves him for the police. She nonchalantly strangles Daisy to death and dumps her body in a nearby field.