Looking for plans this weekend? How about watching Rachel McAdams psychologically and physically torture Dylan O\u2019Brien in the new Sam Raimi movie, Send Help<\/a>,<\/em> which is now streaming on Hulu<\/a>, free to subscribers? Don\u2019t worry, he totally deserves it!<\/p>\n Directed by Sam Raimi, with a screenplay written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, Send Help<\/em> stars Rachel McAdams as the meek, underappreciated employee of a sexist CEO (O\u2019Brien) who horribly mistreats her. Then the two colleagues\u2019 plane crashes on a deserted island while en route to a work trip. The CEO is injured, and, suddenly, the power dynamics are flipped. It doesn\u2019t hurt that McAdam\u2019s character is a life long Survivor<\/em> fan. You might say she\u2019s been training her whole life for this. This one is for everyone with a terrible, abusive boss who\u2019s ever harbored a secret revenge fantasy.<\/p>\n This r-rated survival thriller is exactly as wild, gross, and ridiculous as you want it to be. If you didn\u2019t get a chance to see it in theaters, now is your chance to watch it at home on streaming. And if you get to the end of the movie and find yourself confused, don\u2019t worry, because Decider is here to help. Read on for an analysis of the Send Help<\/em> movie plot summary and Send Help <\/em>movie ending explained. <\/p>\n Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams) works as a Planning & Strategy Department strategist for a financial company, and she\u2019s very good at her job. Unfortunately, she\u2019s also weird, frumpy, and doesn\u2019t wear attractive clothing. She lives alone, is obsessed with Survivor<\/em>, and her only friend is her pet bird. Because of this, she\u2019s completely overlooked and underappreciated by her asshole boss and newly-appointed-nepo-baby-CEO, Bradley (Dylan O\u2019Brien). Bradley goes back on his promise to give Linda a long-overdue promotion, and instead gives it one of his male buddies. As a consolation to Linda, he invites her to join him and some other high-ranking men on a trip on a business trip to Bangkok.<\/p>\n On the flight, Bradley and the boys unearth Linda\u2019s Survivor <\/em>audition tape, and laugh at her expense. But she gets the last laugh when the plane crashes into the ocean, and she and Bradley are the only survivors. They wake up on a remote, unpopulated island. Linda is unharmed, but Bradley\u2019s leg is gravely injured, leaving him unable to walk. Linda, leaning on her Survivor <\/em>skills, builds shelter and gathers food and water for the both of them. She nurses Bradley back to health. But when Bradley starts speaking to her with disrespect, the same way he treated her at the office, she abandons him for two days. Bradley nearly dies from thirst, unable to fend for himself. He reluctantly accepts that Linda is the captain now.<\/p>\n While out foraging, Linda spies a luxury boat on the water. Instead of signaling the boat for help, she hides from it, not ready to leave the island yet. Bradley is starting to heal and is able to walk around on crutches. Linda warns him not to go to a certain side of the island, where a rock formation forms an X, because it is covered in poisonous plants. One day, Linda shows up to their make-shift camp with a sharp kitchen knife she says washed up on the beach. She prepares Bradley a fancy meal of fruit and sushi, complete with moonshine alcohol. <\/p>\n That night, drunk around the fire, Linda and Bradley open up to one another. Bradley talks about his fiance\u00e9, Zuri. Linda reveals her former husband was an abusive alcoholic. For years, Linda endured his abuse and saved him from himself by hiding his car keys when he was drunk. But one night, after a big fight, she deliberately left his car keys out on the table. He died that night, in a drunk driving accident. <\/p>\n After the night by the fire, Bradley is extremely nice to Linda and offers to cook her dinner. But it\u2019s soon revealed he poisoned her meal, in the hopes of escaping on his makeshift raft. The raft immediately falls apart in the ocean, and the dosage wasn\u2019t enough to kill Linda. She rescues Bradley from drowning in the ocean. Then she gets revenge on Bradley by tying him up, paralyzing him with octopus venom, and pretending to castrate him. She informs him that no help is coming, and that he needs to accept that she is the boss now. She promises to be a nicer boss than he was to her. <\/p>\n Soon after, Linda is out foraging when she\u2019s spotted by a boat along the coastline. On the boat is Bradley\u2019s fiance Zuri (Edyll Ismail), who hired her own investigator to keep searching for Bradley after the official investigation gave up. Linda leads Zuri and the boat driver up a tall cliff, ostensibly to lead them back to Bradley. She lags behind while Zuri and the driver step onto a spot on the cliff that Linda knows is unstable. When Zuri slips and falls\u2014caught by the driver, who is now slipping, too\u2014Linda doesn\u2019t move to help them to safety. Linda returns to camp alone, and tells Bradley nothing. She withdraws, and claims she\u2019s taking a \u201csick day.\u201d In her dreams, she\u2019s haunted by the ghost of Zuri.<\/p>\n Bradley tries to hunt on his own, and comes across Zuri\u2019s body, partially buried in the sand. He confronts Linda, who claims it was a accident\u2014that she fell, but she didn\u2019t think Bradley would believe. In fact, Bradley doesn\u2019t believe her. He also stole her knife. He attempts to kill Linda, but after a bloody fight, she gets the better of him. Bradley flees toward the X-shaped rocks that Linda warned him to stay away from. <\/p>\n Upon reaching the rocks, Bradley discovers a luxury home on the cliff. He bangs on the door for help, runs inside, and finds the house fully stocked with food and water, but empty. When he looks for a knife in the silverware drawer, he finds them all gone. Linda\u2019s voice comes on over the house\u2019s security\/PA system, where she confesses she discovered this house a long time ago. Remember that boat she saw near the beginning of the movie? It turns out she followed the boat, and saw workers dropping off a food delivery for the house. She broke in after they left, and disabled the security system. The house\u2019s owner, a Wall Street billionaire, has been none the wiser. <\/p>\n That\u2019s where her knife came from, as well as all this luxury fruit she\u2019d been \u201cforaging.\u201d She\u2019s good at Survivor,<\/em> but not that<\/em> good! It\u2019s also revealed in a flashback that Linda did not merely neglect to help Zuri and the boat driver, when they were dangling off that cliff side. In fact, when it looked like he might pull Zuri up, Linda bashed the boat driver in the head with a rock, and sent two innocent people falling to their death. That\u2019s no accident!<\/p>\n Linda corners Bradley in the house, with a shot gun pointed to his head. Bradley begs for his life. He apologizes for being \u201ca monster\u201d and swears that Linda has changed him for the better. He tells Linda he loves her and wants to stay on this island to live with her forever. For a second, it seems Linda might be buying it. But then she notices one of the horns on a decorative metal bull is missing. Bradley attacks. <\/p>\n Bradley gets a hold of the gun, points it at Linda, and says, \u201cBye you crazy bitch from accounting.\u201d But the gun is not loaded. Linda beats Bradley with a golf club. Before she delivers the fatal swing to his head, Linda corrects the mistake Bradley made again and again when it came to Linda\u2019s job at the company: \u201cStrategy and Planning.\u201d<\/p>\n The movie abruptly cuts to a scene nearly one year later, where Linda is golfing at a Celebrity Golf Invitational. In an interview for the local news, we learn that Linda was discovered alone on a raft in the sea nearly one year ago. The official story is that she is the only survivor of the company plane crash. She\u2019s written a best-selling book about her experience, which is soon to be a movie. Next up, Linda says she plans to write a self-help book, to help teach people that \u201cno help is coming. So you better start saving yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n The movie ends with Linda driving along a coastal highway, in a convertible, with her pet bird by her side. Blondie\u2019s hit song \u201cOne Way or Another\u201d blasts. Linda shoots a menacing look at the camera, and with that, the movie ends. (Perhaps the use of the Blondie song is a nod to another Rachel McAdams movie, Mean Girls<\/a><\/em>, which uses that same song in a famous montage<\/a>. Mean Girl McAdams is back!)<\/p>\n So what does it all mean? Well, ultimately, Send Help<\/em> is a movie about power, authority, and morality. We might like Linda better than Bradley, but when she became his \u201cboss,\u201d she eventually let the power corrupt her. Despite her claims of being a good person, by the end of the movie she has become a murderer of innocent people. <\/p>\n One could also argue Send Help<\/em> is a movie about the labor women do to save men\u2014be it an employee working for an abusive boss, or a wife keeping an abusive husband alive\u2014and what it means when women stop doing that labor. Is withholding help the same thing as harming some one? We can agree that hitting the boat driver with a rock is murder, but what about Linda leaving Bradley to die of thirst? What about Linda giving her drunk husband his car keys? Is it murder to simply not<\/em> save someone from themselves?<\/p>\n By the end of the movie, it\u2019s clear Linda believes it\u2019s no longer her moral obligation to help anyone. \u201cNo help is coming.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSend Help <\/em>movie plot summary:<\/h2>\n
Send Help<\/em> movie ending explained:<\/h2>\n
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