Eenie Meanie

Eenie Meanie

Year: 2025

Runtime: 1 h 34 m

Language: english

Director: Shawn Simmons

Echo Score: 80

Budget: $50M

ActionComedyDramaThriller

A former teenage getaway driver is coerced back into a dangerous underworld when a previous employer offers a high‑stakes job: rescuing her chronically unreliable ex‑boyfriend from a lethal situation, forcing her to confront her shady past and the consequences of her old life.

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1

Car crash and foster-care beginnings

In 2007 Cleveland, Edie's drunk parents are pulled over after buying drugs. Edie's father urges her to speed away to save them, but the crash kills her mother and leaves her father paraplegic. Edie endures abusive foster homes until she is rescued.

2007 Cleveland, Ohio
2

Rescued by John

Edie is taken from abusive foster care by John, a young petty criminal. They fall in love and begin pulling off robberies for mob boss Nico, who nicknames her Eenie Meanie.

late 2000s Cleveland area
3

Nico's crew and the heists begin

Edie and John carry out numerous robberies for Nico, establishing her reputation. The operation runs with the Chaperone overseeing planning and Gary's bar serving as a hub for coordination.

late 2000s Cleveland area
4

Fourteen years later: pregnant and reformed

Fourteen years later, Edie has left the getaway life and works at a bank while attending community college. During a robbery, she is knocked unconscious, wakes in the hospital, and learns she is pregnant.

2021 (approx.) Unknown
5

Edie saves John during interrogation

Against her better judgment, Edie visits John, who is being interrogated by Nico’s goons. She uses her driving skills to save him, reigniting a dangerous connection between them.

2021 (approx.) Interrogation location (unknown)
6

Leo kidnapped and killed

John reveals he kidnapped Leo, a card counter who refused to help him, but Leo is accidentally killed by a passing truck. Edie grows furious at being pulled back into John’s reckless plans.

2021 (approx.) Unknown
7

Nico imposes a deadly job

Nico and his right-hand man George pressure Edie to steal a car containing $3 million for a poker tournament at a Toledo casino, binding her to a dangerous heist.

2021 (approx.) Toledo casino (planned), Ohio
8

The plan takes shape at Gary's bar

The heist’s planning is overseen at Gary’s bar by the Chaperone, who treats John as a liability. Edie remains loyal to her ex, while inside help from casino staff and payoffs makes the plan plausible.

before casino run Gary's bar
9

Perm Walters enters the casino world

At the casino, Edie and John run into rival getaway driver Perm Walters. Nico claims he’s not involved, pushing the tension and mistrust higher as Edie reaches out to her reforming father for help.

during tournament Toledo casino
10

A pregnancy confession and a night together

Edie tells John she is pregnant, and they share a romantic night, deepening their bond even as danger closes in around them.

during planning Toledo casino hotel
11

The heist culminates in a street showdown

The tournament ends and the prize money is loaded into the car. Edie drives the armored Charger off the casino floor, triggering a high-speed chase. John flips his own car in pursuit, and Edie pulls him from the wreck as Perm escapes with the Charger.

finale Casino floor to street
12

Betrayal at the end of the score

Edie delivers the cash to Gary and the Chaperone as planned, but John executes a desperate plan and kills them to take the money for himself. The betrayal seals their fates in the final act.

aftermath Streets near casino
13

John's death at Edie's hands

Realizing his plan has gone too far, John is shot dead by Edie as she stops his reckless bid to seize the money.

aftermath Somewhere after the heist
14

Nico's reckoning and George's exposure

Edie hands the money to Nico; he discovers that George recruited Perm. Nico disposes of George in the fallout, exposing the debt of loyalty and deception that underpinned the heist.

aftermath Nico's domain
15

A new life with her son

Sometime later, Edie starts her own auto repair business and begins a new life with her son, using the money to build a future away from the old crimes.

aftermath New life, possible home base

Last Updated: October 07, 2025 at 13:38

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