Film: Role Play
Cast: Kaley Cuoco, David Oyelowo. Bill Nighy, Connie Neilsen
Director: Thomas Vincent
Rating: 2/5

This story about an assassin whose secret life is discovered by her family after the bounty on her head touches the stratosphere, is nothing but a rehash of countless TV shows and films with similar story arcs. The spouse living a double life will come as stale territory for those who watch movies even at irregular intervals.

Emma ( Kaley Cuoco who played Penny of  the long-running ‘The Big Bang theory’ fame) is a good mother when she is around for her two kids - a son from her husband’s previous relationship and a biological daughter. They live in New Jersey and Emma appears to live the high-life of a financial consultant, always travelling around for work. Emma is actually a contract assassin who works in disguises (mostly wigs) with aliases, while telling Dave,  the most trusting man on Earth (incredibly ?) , that she is off to yet another generic work conference in Nebraska or some other locale. Dave only happens to discover her true calling when they decide to spice up their marriage with a role-play treat at a five star hotel. It’s now getting more and more difficult to believe in such fancy constructs about a so-called ‘Happy’ family being oblivious to one family member’s duplicity. And we’re not talking about affairs here.