Anna Kendrick’s Woman of the Hour gets a poster

Woman of the Hour is the new crime drama film directed by Anna Kendrick in her directorial debut. Ian MacAllister McDonald wrote the film and it is based on the life of serial killer Rodney Alcala, who in 1978 appeared on the television show The Dating Game during his murder spree. Kendrick also stars as contestant Cheryl Bradshaw.

In 1978, serial killer Rodney Alcala appeared on The Dating Game and won a date with bachelorette Cheryl Bradshaw. At the time, Alcala had murdered five women, and his strange facade during the episode later nicknamed him “The Dating Game Killer”

You can read our reviews of the film from TIFF 2023 here and here.

The film also stars Tony Hale, Daniel Zovatto, Nicolette Robinson and Kathryn Gallagher.