Another Simple Favor(2025)

Years after exposing Emily Nelson/Hope McLanden (Blake Lively) for the murder of her father and twin sister Faith, Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick) has enjoyed a boost in viewers to her YouTube channel, as well as modest success as an author for a book based on her ordeal with Emily. To Stephanie’s surprise, Emily is freed from prison and invites her to be the maid of honor at Emily’s wedding in Capri to Dante Versano (Michele Morrone), whose family has connections with the mob.

In Capri, tensions arise with the arrival of Emily’s estranged mother Margaret, plus her Aunt Linda (Allison Janney). Additionally, Emily’s ex-husband Sean Townsend (Henry Golding) is filing for full custody of their son Nicky. Sean is later poisoned to death in his hotel room, and Stephanie quickly suspects Emily of being involved. Stephanie gets help from a bumbling FBI agent, Irene Walker, while also keeping in touch with Detective Summerville for help. After Emily and Dante are married, Stephanie witnesses Dante being murdered by an unseen assailant, who shoots him and blows him up in a shed full of fireworks. Stephanie is put under house arrest out of suspicion for her involvement.

The real culprits are Aunt Linda, plus Emily’s triplet Charity, who was originally believed to be dead. Linda faked her stillbirth and raised Charity as her daughter, something that Margaret knew about and tells Stephanie about. Linda kills Margaret after finding out, and Charity kills Irene when she tries to help Stephanie escape. Dante’s mother Portia tries to get Stephanie to confess to his murder with truth serum, but she gets no answers and orders Stephanie to be killed. Emily saves her in the nick of time after revealing she knew Charity was taking her place, and that this is happening because Linda knew that Emily’s marriage to Dante was a sham, as she was just a beard for his relationship with a rival mobster, Matteo Bartolo.

Linda and Charity kidnap Nicky and threaten him before Stephanie and Emily come to his rescue. When Charity realizes that Linda plans to kill Emily too, she stands in the way and takes Linda’s gun, shooting her in the chest before pushing her off a cliff to her death. Emily then convinces Charity to take her place in going back to jail and taking the fall for the murders.

Stephanie has her name cleared and returns home to write a new book. Emily asks her to take care of Nicky until she can come out of hiding to see him again. Portia finds Emily and accepts her as part of the family since she knew that she really did care about Dante. Portia also hands Emily an envelope and asks her for “a simple favor”.