Movie Review: 'Little Miss Sociopath'
Little Miss Sociopath is a scrappy indie dark comedy worth a look on streaming rental.
Little Miss Sociopath
Directed by Miv Evans
Written by Miv Evans
Starring Jenny Tran, Brendan Michael Coughlin, Pamela Shaw, Lisa Scott
Release Date March 15th, 2025
Published February 19th, 2025
Little Miss Sociopath is a scrappy little indie dark comedy about a meek young woman who discovers her inner sociopath as she copes with the death of her father and suffers under the tyrannical demands of her ailing stepmother. Jenny Tran stars as the title character, better known as Clementine or Clem in the movie. Clem works at a shady pharmacy in the Valley in California and is generally overlooked by the world. A new co-worker however, Adam, played by Brendan Michael Coughlin, takes an immediate notice of her, though Clem is too anxious to act on the attention.
The sudden death of Clem’s father is the catalyst for the story. Clem lives with her dad and his new wife, Bella (Victoria Goodhart). Bella has been a source of Clem’s anxiety for some time now when we join the story and after Clem;’s father dies, things get even worse when Bella falls ill and becomes dependent on Clem. Bella seems to make it her mission to make Clem’s life a living hell, running off one caretaker after another while demanding that Clem stay home and take care of her.
Reaching a breaking point, Clem steals drugs from the pharmacy to knock Bella out. Adam immediately catches her but instead of getting her fired or arrested, he decides to help. Claiming that he has a medical background, he begins helping Clem manage Bella’s meds so that the two of them can spend time together without Bella’s constant screaming demands. All of this is building to a very quick boil with Clem finally standing up for herself in the worst possible way, providing a fatal dose of drugs to Bella in order to find peace.
But this is just the start. Getting away with killing Bella leads Clem to be more confident and assertive in her relationship with Adam. It also leads her to a new scam where she becomes a caretaker for elderly people unable to live alone but also, for unexplained reasons, cannot go to a typical elderly care home. With Adam’s reluctant help, Clem plans to get these elderly patients to make her their insurance beneficiary and leave her whatever modest fortune they may have in their will. However, when her patients turn out to be a colorful group of geezers that she actually likes, can she actually go through with her plan?
The dark comic conceit of Little Miss Sociopath will not be to everyone’s taste. Your mileage will certainly vary on how much you can sympathize with a main character who is quite ambivalent about committing murder and fraud and planning further murder and fraud. For me, I found the tone of the film to be just the right amount of absurd for me to overlook the moral questions. I also really enjoyed the performance of Jenny Tran who sold me on the bizarre and conflicted conscience of Clem. Once she’s pondering murdering her new friends and housemates, she’s quite funny in how she goes back and forth about her scheme. There is also a charm to her relationship with her elderly patients that adds to the dark comic premise.
Little Miss Sociopath has its flaws, a few plot points are a rushed past or glossed over in a rush to switch gears from the story of murdering Bella and getting to the scheme that will drive the rest of the film, but that’s not a major flaw. The performances are charming enough and the story is well told enough that the rushed narrative doesn’t ruin the movie. The film is also such a shaggy low budget charmer that I find it hard to hold much against it. In the end, Little Miss Sociopath is just scrappy and funny enough to recommend it.
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Comments (2)
Great review of Little Miss Sociopath. I want to watch it again taking in all the points you made! By the way, I played the Lawyer who "got to live", lol. Thanks again!
This review has intrigued me! It sounds like this movie has an interesting "texture" to it.