Emily The Criminal is a movie released on Netflix US in December 2022. Starring Aubrey Plaza, the film became pretty popular on the streaming platform as it tells the story of a girl struggling to make money to pay her student loans. People got curious about how the story was born and whether true events were behind it. Also, the movie introduces the figure of dummy shoppers, and people wonder what a dummy shopper is. In this article, we will discover more about all this.
You can watch the official trailer for Emily The Criminal here on Youtube.
Emily The Criminal, the true story behind the movie: what is a dummy shopper?
Emily The Criminal tells the story of Emily Benetto, a young girl with a student loan that worries her. She tries to make money with regular jobs, but the job market is tough, and she cannot find a remunerative occupation that would allow her to pay her loans.
To make things clear, the story of Emily Benetto is not a true story inspired by a specific person. But the struggle of young people trying to make money to pay their loans is very real in America, and it belongs to the personal experience of the movie director and writer John Patton Ford. As he declared in an interview with Golden Globes:
“I had about a hundred thousand dollars of student debt when I came out of graduate school and I think I had a lot of anxiety and fear and desperation about that, and ‘how am I ever going to pay it off’ kind of feelings. I knew that I wasn’t alone, and it just…
