Chris Rock Directs 'Misty Green' Starring Rosalind Eleazar — SkimNews
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- Chris Rock wrote and directed 'Misty Green,' a 1-hour-43-minute R-rated comedy-drama, and also plays Jordan Green, a director who was once among the titular character's champions.
- Rosalind Eleazar (of 'Slow Horses') stars as Misty Green, a former Emmy-winning supporting TV actress now navigating dispiriting auditions and occasional singing gigs.
- The film opens with a black-and-white intertitle defining 'The Bag' — about status and wealth — with a Birkin bag described as 'more faithful than a husband.'
- Amy Landecker plays the widow of the man who gave Misty her ocean-view apartment, who demands she vacate but relents to a week after spotting Misty's Emmy statuette and a movie script in the room.
- The widow's parting advice to Misty: 'Memorize your lines.'
- The New York Times designated 'Misty Green' a Critic's Pick.
Why it matters: The NYT Critic's Pick designation frames Rock's new film as a pointed L.A. character study built around Eleazar (already acclaimed from 'Slow Horses'), opening with a Birkin-bag intertitle that telegraphs its themes of transactional relationships, housing precarity, and faded Hollywood glory across a 1h 43m runtime.
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