Lou is a 2022 American crime thriller film directed by Anna Foerster. The film stars Allison Janney, Jurnee Smollett, Logan Marshall-Green, Ridley Asha Bateman, and Matt Craven. Lou was released on September 23, 2022, by Netflix.
So, what happens at the end of Lou? Before the film reaches its climax, we learn Lou's biggest secret: she's not merely a stranger to Hannah and her daughter Vee (Ridley Bateman). In fact, she's a former CIA agent with a familial connection to the pair.
Initially, Lou seems to sacrifice her own life in the pursuit of killing her son. But Lou's ending scene reveals that she is alive and still watching over Hannah and Vee. She secretly keeps an eye on them because she is now a fugitive, with the CIA trying to track her down.
Although set on Orcas Island (the largest of Washington State's San Juan islands), the movie was actually filmed in and around Ucluelet, on the south coast of Vancouver Island (Canada).
Hannah informs Lou that the hitchhiker is Vee's father, Philip (Logan Marshall-Green), a special forces soldier and criminal she thought was dead. Lou finds and kills Philip's friends Tony (Daniel Bernhardt) & Gerry (RJ Fetherstonhaugh) on the way, clearly showing she is more than she appears to be.
Does Jax survive the action movie? Read on for SPOILERS about the welfare of the animals in the movie. Fortunately, Jax is just fine and comes to no harm. At the end of the film, Lou leaves the dog with Hannah and Vee, who also make it through.
The story drags a little in the middle and the script is riddled with genre cliches, but Janney elevates some pretty weak material and the finale is well worth the wait. Overall, LOU is nothing original or to go out of your way to watch, but it's a decent little action flick.
The nickname "The Lou" for the city of St. Louis is a shortened version of the city's name, and it is a popular colloquial moniker used by residents and visitors alike.
The film composer has won five Oscars, four Golden Globes, seven BAFTAs and 25 Grammys. With 52 Oscar nominations, he is second only to Walt Disney as most nominated person ever.
Last year, Williams scored a 53rd nomination for his music for Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans, making the then 90-year-old maestro the oldest person to be nominated for an Oscar.
Parents need to know that Lou is a graphically violent and suspenseful thriller about two women attempting to rescue a child who has been kidnapped by her deranged father.
Ridley Asha Bateman as Vee - Playing Vee, the kidnapped daughter of Jurnee Smollett's Hannah, Ridley Asha Bateman costars in Lou with just the third project on her resume.
The woman appears to have brown hair (not grey like Lou did previously). However, the copper bracelet and binoculars appear to suggest that Lou is still alive and is still watching over Hannah and Vee.
Directed by Ann Foerster from a screenplay co-written by Maggie Cohn and Jack Stanley, “Lou” stars Janney as a reclusive landowner in a small Pacific Northwest coastal community in the late 1980s.
The biggest twist in Lou's ending is that Philip is actually Lou's son. Lou was aware throughout the entire hunt for Vee that she had been abducted by her own son whom she knew was Hannah's ex-husband, but this was not revealed until the film's ending.
Lou's big secret was that Phil was Lou's son -- someone she used her CIA contacts to get black-listed and arrested after he went off the rails in Central America. He was abusive to Hannah, so Lou had to get the monster put away.
Though many UCA members in the final scenes wore a Quipu pin, the Quipu that Lou is holding in her hands has chains, an indication that Amelie brought Lou back to life (as Amelie was wearing a Quipu as a necklace).
The action thriller follows the story of a suspicious character, Lou, who sets out to help her neighbor Hannah when her daughter, Vee, is kidnapped by her father. Vee was kidnapped by her father, Philip, on a stormy night.
