{"id":40642,"date":"2025-12-04T07:21:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40642"},"modified":"2025-12-04T07:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:21:28","slug":"eeinie-meanie-2025-written-directed-by-shawn-simmons-starring-samara-weaving-karl-glusman-and-andy-garcia-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40642","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Eeinie Meanie&#8221; (2025) written &amp; directed by Shawn Simmons, starring Samara Weaving, Karl Glusman and Andy Garcia \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z120425zview_eeniemeanie.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Eeinie Meanie <\/strong><\/em>(2025)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Shawn Simmons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Shawn Simmons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Samara Weaving, Karl Glusman, Andy Garcia, Jermaine Fowler, Marshawn Lynch, Randall Park, Mike O&#8217;Malley, Elle Graham, Kyanna Simone, Chris Bauer, Chelsey Crisp, Phuong Kubacki, Tim Neff <\/strong>and <strong>Steve Zahn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<i> She can get away from anything. Except him.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Edie Meaney had a rough childhood.\u00a0 When she was 14 her drunk, drug-abusing parents had her driving them home.\u00a0 When a cop pulled Edie over, her dad ordered her to speed away.\u00a0 She did and a high speed chase was on.\u00a0 Edie crashed.\u00a0 The wreck killed her mom and left her dad a paraplegic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Edie spent the rest of her teen years in one terrible foster home after another.\u00a0 Finally on her own as a young woman, Edie fell in love with John.\u00a0 John was a small time hood who worked for a crime boss named Nico.\u00a0 Nico planned robberies.\u00a0 John did them and Edie drove the getaway car.\u00a0 It was Nico who nicknamed Edie, <em>Eeeny Meanie<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Edie finally came to her senses.\u00a0 She realized her life could only end in jail or dead if she didn&#8217;t change.\u00a0 So she did.\u00a0 A few months ago she left John and a life of crime behind.\u00a0 She got a job at a bank to put herself through college.\u00a0 Things were finally off to a good (and legitimate) start.<\/p>\n<p>Then Edie discovers she&#8217;s pregnant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The baby is John&#8217;s.\u00a0 So she decides to let him know.\u00a0 That&#8217;s when she learns John owes Nico a lot of money.\u00a0 Enough to get him killed.\u00a0 Of course if Edie will drive getaway on a big score, Nico will forgive the debt&#8230; and save John&#8217;s life will be saved.<\/p>\n<p>Buckle up!<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The framework for <em>Eenie Meanie<\/em> is well known but there are twists to keep it interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Garcia is having a great second career as THE bad guy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Eeinie Meanie <\/strong><\/em>(2025) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z120425zview_eeniemeanie2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eeinie Meanie (2025) Director: Shawn Simmons Screenplay: Shawn Simmons Stars: Samara Weaving, Karl Glusman, Andy Garcia, Jermaine Fowler, Marshawn Lynch,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40644,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40642\/revisions\/40644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}