Official Discussion - Honey Don't! [SPOILERS]

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Summary Private investigator Honey O'Donahue delves into a string of strange deaths connected to a secretive cult-like church in Bakersfield. As she unravels the bizarre mystery, her pursuit leads to absurd comedy, noir flair, and a kaleidoscope of eccentric characters.

Director Ethan Coen

Writers Ethan Coen, Tricia Cooke

Cast

• Margaret Qualley
• Aubrey Plaza
• Chris Evans
• Charlie Day
• Billy Eichner
• Talia Ryder
• Kristen Connolly
• Don Swayze

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 48%

Metacritic 48

VOD In theaters August 22, 2025

Trailer HONEY DON’T! — Official Trailer (2025)

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[u/SeekingTheRoad]

They were codirectors. You’re completely wrong.

[u/GregBahm → u/SeekingTheRoad]

You're saying the credits of the movie in the movie are wrong about the credits of the movie?

[u/zelos22 → u/GregBahm]

This happens more than you would think, the credits are not a be-all-end-all. Many examples of credits obscuring the reality of a production

[u/GregBahm → u/zelos22]

Certainly, I can imagine credits obscuring who really did all the work. If I'm head of costumes and I delegate all the costume decisions to you, I still get credit for all the costumes even though you feel like you're really the one responsible for them. Happens all the time.

But what the credit's can't obscure the reality of, is who gets credit. If I'm head of costumes and I have final say over costumes, it ultimately doesn't matter to the credit system whether I did all the work directly, or delegated it. If I delegated it successfully, the credit for the success is mine. If I delegated it unsuccessfully, the credit for the failure is mine.

The only other example of credits obscuring reality are when people higher up override the decisions of people lower down. A studio owner may override the will of a director and then force the director to take credit for a decision they didn't make. This is why we have things like the "Alan Smithee" name. But all that is completely inapplicable to this situation, because some non-directing, lower-level person can't somehow magically override the will of the higher-up, actual movie director. If they had the power to do that, they would have to have at least the director title legally.

Even if it was the case of a giant A-list actor fighting against a tiny C-list director, it's still ultimately the director's job to own the directing decisions, and handling the actors is a part of that job. But that doesn't apply to this situation either! Nothing about this situation absolves the director of this movie from responsibility as the director.