From ‘Tiger King’ and ‘Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich’ to ‘The Tinder Swindler’ and ‘Bad Vegan’.
director Chris Smith tells the true story of Sarma Melngailis, a Wharton graduate who became a rising star in the New York culinary scene of the early 2000s. After turning her raw food restaurant into a celebrity hotspot, she meets the mysterious Anthony Strangis, a Twitter friend of Alec Baldwin’s.
They marry and Strangis convinces her to send him large sums of money in return for making her and her beloved dog immortal. When she fails to pay her employees as a result, they go on strike and the pair go on the run, only to be found after Strangis orders Domino’s from a traceable phone. Is Melngailis even partly to blame or is this a classic case of coercive control? We’re left to make up our own minds.