Contains spoilers for Queenpins
It’s early doors in 2024 and a movie about a couple of women who have no money using coupons to defraud big companies is no.1 on Netflix UK. It figures.
Written and directed by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, Queenpins was originally released in 2021 to Showtime and Paramount+ but now it has appeared on Netflix UK it seems to have captured a new audience.
The movie stars Kristen Bell, reunited with her The Good Place co-star Kirby Howell-Baptiste as skint friends who come up with a scheme to sell stolen coupons over the internet at a very cut down price. The women make millions but, not being criminal masterminds, they get caught and prosecuted, with Bell’s Connie serving jail time, and Howell-Baptiste’s JoJo getting a more lenient non-custodial sentence.
The film is fiction but it is inspired by a real case that went down...
It’s early doors in 2024 and a movie about a couple of women who have no money using coupons to defraud big companies is no.1 on Netflix UK. It figures.
Written and directed by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, Queenpins was originally released in 2021 to Showtime and Paramount+ but now it has appeared on Netflix UK it seems to have captured a new audience.
The movie stars Kristen Bell, reunited with her The Good Place co-star Kirby Howell-Baptiste as skint friends who come up with a scheme to sell stolen coupons over the internet at a very cut down price. The women make millions but, not being criminal masterminds, they get caught and prosecuted, with Bell’s Connie serving jail time, and Howell-Baptiste’s JoJo getting a more lenient non-custodial sentence.
The film is fiction but it is inspired by a real case that went down...
- 1/3/2024
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
“Queenpins” has arrived in theaters and on Paramount+, telling the story of the country’s largest counterfeit coupon scam. Indeed, the movie is inspired by a true story, but just how closely does the film follow the events and people it’s based on? Let’s break it down.
In the movie, Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste play Connie and Jojo, a pair of best friends from Phoenix who love extreme couponing. Upon realizing that they could get a coupon for a free item sent to them just by complaining to the manufacturer, they come up with a plan to smuggle and steal cases of those coupons, to then sell to people.
Together, they set up a website called “Savvy Super Saver,” and eventually make millions of dollars — in turn, costing multiple manufacturers millions of dollars. And in terms of the crime itself, “Queenpins” stayed pretty loyal.
In July 2012, police in Phoenix,...
In the movie, Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste play Connie and Jojo, a pair of best friends from Phoenix who love extreme couponing. Upon realizing that they could get a coupon for a free item sent to them just by complaining to the manufacturer, they come up with a plan to smuggle and steal cases of those coupons, to then sell to people.
Together, they set up a website called “Savvy Super Saver,” and eventually make millions of dollars — in turn, costing multiple manufacturers millions of dollars. And in terms of the crime itself, “Queenpins” stayed pretty loyal.
In July 2012, police in Phoenix,...
- 9/10/2021
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
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