Review: 'Eileen' has a great Anne Hathaway turn — and one of the year's most shocking reveals
Who is Eileen? To ask the various cranks, lechers, layabouts and scoundrels in her small Massachusetts hometown, she's barely interesting enough to warrant the question. A soft-spoken 20-something played by a wistful, watchful, Boston-accented Thomasin McKenzie, Eileen has no boyfriend, no husband and no apparent prospects, romantic or otherwise. She works as a secretary at a juvenile detention facility, where her drab sweaters and long wool skirts render her all but invisible to the older, mostly male staff.
Those who do take notice regard her with undisguised contempt, whether it's a snide fellow clerk (Siobhan Fallon Hogan) or Eileen's own verbally abusive lout of a
