Synopsis
Breaking News in Yuba County (2021) is a dark crime comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Director Tate Taylor assembled one of the more crowded casts of that year — Allison Janney, Mila Kunis, Regina Hall, Awkwafina, Wanda Sykes, Ellen Barkin, Juliette Lewis — and built the film around a woman everyone has trained themselves to overlook.
Sue Buttons (Janney) is invisible at work, barely acknowledged at home. She catches her husband in bed with someone else, the shock kills him on the spot, and Sue makes a snap decision: bury him and say nothing. Almost immediately, the town can't stop talking about her. The "mysterious disappearance" of her husband turns Sue into a local celebrity and a sympathetic figure — and her news anchor sister (Regina Hall) is not about to let the story go. The problem is that the missing man owed money to a local criminal crew, which means Sue now has both persistent detectives and impatient armed men circling her.
The film is less interested in the mechanics of the cover-up than in the spectacle of each bad decision compounding the last one. Janney plays it completely straight, which makes the escalating absurdity land harder. Stream Breaking News in Yuba County (2021) online on iFILM.
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